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- The real life cost of trying to ignore nature
- The real life cost of trying to ignore natureLet people decide what to do with their property... and then, when Mother Nature disagrees, give them the choice of letting Uncle Sugar have the title in return for emergency aid, or else toughing it out like the rugged individualists that they...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- News to know: Oracle's Fusion guru quits; Dell; Windows 7 boot times
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Dennis Howlett: Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: New dual/quad core CPUs enter Intel price list, AMD drops prices ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Gong Online (exe)
- Gong is the hilarious new casual game from mobiusgames and TOSE Shanghai. Experience wacky soccer like it's never been played. Outrageous outfits, crazy skills, quirky items. Dress up like an Arabian princess or a hip-hopping skaterboy; drop banana peels, start up a dancing frenzy, or use an ice cube to...
- Software downloads 2008-08-04
- Cable: Act, Don't React
- Cable: Act, Don't React21-Hour coincidence?Isn't it amazing that the outage "happens" to get fixed just before the 24-hour point? After 24 hours, they would be stuck to give refunds, but it was fixed "just in time."Amazing.I've been through it many times.I dont quite understand what you mean here..."[i]If this household...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- Tornado Storm Chaser 3D Screensaver (zip)
- I've always wanted to stand on an open plain and watch a real tornado, a big twister, from a safe distance. Not likely, but I can still get a thrill with this Tornado Storm Chaser 3D Screensaver. It's a classic tornado scene. In torrential rain, a tornado funnel swirls towards...
- Software downloads 2008-04-18
- Apple makes headway on PC vs Mac front, but isn't that the old war?
- Apple makes headway on PC vs Mac front, but isn't that the old war?services forecast: cloudy with a chance of rain((( "The next war is the cloud war, and the battles will be fought around software as a service, desktop as a service, integration as a service, infrastructure as a...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- Gore Lawsuit Over Inconvenient Untruths?
- Gore Lawsuit Over Inconvenient Untruths?Inconvenient indeed ....I'm 100% in favor of this lawsuit. The movie was nothing more than a self serving political speach and now a bunch of idiots who saw the "movie" think that they know about "global warming".More than 90% of the information presented by the...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-13
- Time for a Bezos trustworthy cloud initiative?
- Sooner or later, it was inevitable that a server outage would expose Amazon's lack of preparedness for failure. It's ironic that this should have happened within hours of my posting an item here arguing that SaaS vendors should all rely on cloud providers for their infrastructure. Those that do rely...
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Global+warming%3A+bringing+it+home
- Global+warming%3A+bringing+it+homeReal scienceEver hear of Sun cycles? Might want to look that one up and seriously consider the real science, not the "green" Al Gore pap science, that applies to why the climate is in a warming trend!global warming: chicken little lives onGlobal warming probably is taking place. What is...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- Tornado destroyed woman's house: then she gets this $2,025.45 bill from Time Warner Cable
- Tornado destroyed woman's house: then she gets this $2,025.45 bill from Time Warner CableHow's this possible?What kind of equipment does she have the would cost that kind of cash? As well why is she responsible for it? After the demarcation point that is the cable companies problem. If weather cause...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-31
- Tornado destroyed woman's house: then she gets this $2,025.45 bill from Time Warner Cable
- From Wisconsin's Kenosha News comes this story that after a January 7 tornado demolished her home, and ensuing rain and snow made it a bear to fix, a woman from the area has received a $2,025.45 bill from her (now former, well duh) cable television service....
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Siemens gives away two MRIs
- Officially the winner of the Siemens Win an MRI contest was Lockport Memorial Hospital in Lockport, NY, near Buffalo. The hospital in the former factory town has long been threatened with closure, its people worked hard on the contest, and they deserve congratulations. Just...
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- I agree, Dorothy, Kansas isn't so bad
- Received a communique from the U.S. Green Building Council, which is trumpeting the decision of city officials in Greensburg, Kansas, to require all city-owned buildings to carry a Platinum level certification under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design LEED program. The reason this matters is...
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Eight reasons SaaS will surge in 2008
- Eight reasons SaaS will surge in 2008Thanks for this excellent post Phil !Thanks for this excellent post Phil.I agree that these important trends will no doubt shape how the SaaS applications and business services sector will evolve, including changes to how vendors will go to market, as well as how...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-02
- If viruses are no threat to Macs ...
- If viruses are no threat to Macs ...I don't protect it..My windows partition; however, is protected. When I first started looking into Macs way back in the middle of last year (I was owning a mac before it was HIP to own a mac... trend-setter!) I inquired on a few...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- Water Margin Online (English) (exe)
- Water Margin is one of the well known novels from China, featuring 108 heroes gathered at Mount LiangShan together with Timely Rain SongJiang, The Black Tornado LiKui and other heroic stories will be played by you. Water Margin Online is an English 3D MMORPG Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game...
- Software downloads 2007-11-21
- 108 Shuihu Fantasy Online (exe)
- Water Margin is one of the well known novels from China, featuring 108 heroes gathered at Mount LiangShan together with Timely Rain SongJiang, The Black Tornado LiKui, and other heroic stories will be played by you. Water Margin Online is an English 3D MMORPG Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game...
- Software downloads 2007-11-12
- Who deserves an MRI?
- Given the enormous amounts of capital funneling into the health care system it's easy to think there must be plenty of money for equipment. There isn't. There are many hospitals, especially in poor and rural areas, that can't afford top-notch equipment. Siemens Medical is taking...
- Blog posts 2007-10-27
- 10 things you should cover in your business continuity plan
- Business continuity is much more than just a fancy word for "backup" -- although some organizations treat it that way. A comprehensive business continuity plan BCP provides a roadmap for continuance and/or restoration of mission-critical functions during and after a disaster, such as a fire, flood, tornado or even a...
- Download resources 2007-09-17
- Model Analyzer for Excel (zip)
- Model Analyzer for Excel comprises a series of functions to allow you to boost analysis capacity and versatility in your Excel decision making models, as it includes the functions of several of our products: Build, analyze and manage multiple scenarios to any model quickly, easily and without having to make...
- Software downloads 2007-08-16
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