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http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/what-your-computer-does-while-you-wait
For the many people who wonder why the computer takes so long to respond even while it’s not ‘doing anything’ (myself included). Of particular interest, while your computer may operate mainly within close caches and system memory, reading data or code from the hard drive can take up to approximately 164,000 times as long as [...]

3 minutes of social commentary on corporatism and economic dystopia.
[Every other Jason Statham movie ever made]
One movie-ending awwww moment.

Just got back from a trip to Cancun for the weekend, and I’ve learned a few things:

No matter how technologically advanced we get as a civilization, you still need to carry a pen.
Laws should be written with some semblance of intelligence assumed in the people. Things move a lot quicker.
I appreciate the ability of US [...]

Nine Inch Nails has released another album, this time completely free. It’s shakin up the music industry!!!
Of course, Trent has plans to sell physical CD’s and such, but the full album is available to download for free!read more | digg story

It’s not the data that’s important, it’s the links between them that matter.
That’s one of my policies about data, especially now with relational databases allowing businesses and people to see the links between people. Advertisers don’t care who you are, they just care that one person has gone to X, Y, and Z places and [...]

Wow, it’s funny. In Pidgin, one can view the Member Since information on any user on your buddy list (you might have been able to for some time, but I just noticed it). Apparently I’ve been on AIM since May 5th, 2002. Of course, I’ve been on the Internet for quite some time before that, [...]

Today, the sequel to the widely-popular Super Smash Bros. Melee: Super Smash Bros Brawl, launched in the US. Getting an average of 96 out of 100 according to the major game review sites, it’s quite a great game! While I do not own a Wii, I’ve played both the Japanese import and the English version, [...]

*UPDATE* After completing the download of the free album, Ghosts I, I’ve mirrored the album for download here. Enjoy *UPDATE*
So Trent Reznor, lead singer of Nine Inch Nails, has released a new instrumental album called Ghosts. A 4-volume album, it’s a sometimes-light, sometimes-heavy treat for NIN fans everywhere. But what’s more great than the [...]

As part of my job, I set up computer lab machines for students at my university. We don’t provide them the ability to store data on the computer, of course, so we encourage students to bring in flash drives.
Most students prefer to use the ’safely remove hardware’ icon to remove their flash drives, which is [...]

—Note: This was typed onboard the Delta flight from SEA to SLC—So I’m flying from Seattle to Vegas through Salt Lake, and it seems Delta has upgraded their inflight entertainment. Each seat, even coach, has a little video display, with free music (poor choices, if I do say so myself), flight status info, certain sattelite [...]

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