With gas prices on the rise, I figured it might be time to see if my local station is a good deal or not. According to DetroitGasPrices.com (run by GasBuddy.com), the Costco on Brown Rd in Auburn Hills has the 3rd cheapest gas in the Metro Detroit area! While some stations in the […]
How many undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled in universities in China? 19 million, according to Gu Binglin, president of Beijing’s Tsinghua University.
The U.S. needs to wake up, and focus more on education, science and technology. As the education gap shrinks, and the U.S.’s technological leadership deminishes, the standard of living will decline here, […]
Windows Media Center, currently a seperate OS, is expected to be included as standard in the client version of Vista released in November 2006. With the ability to turn the Xbox360 into a media center (previously posted here at Digg), the inclusion of MCE features in Vista is expected to promote sales of both […]
Acording to Lifehacker, all you have to do is nothing (litterally) to get through to a Comcast operator. The trick is to simply wait. To support customers with rotary phones, the system will eventually forward you to a live operator. I’ll have to try this next time.
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We’re back from our trip. Go see some photos.
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It’s 4:00 AM. By 9:00, I’ll be in Washington, DC! Tanya and I are meeting her sister & husband for an extended weekend. Should be fun!
According the band’s official website, they don’t seem to support the many DRM inconveniences that users have to put up with. They have posted instructions on how to get their music into iTunes, by bypassing the included DRM. It involves the lame task of burning the tracks to a CD, then ripping again.
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China and India are educating so many scientists and engineers that it is all but certain that the United States will lose some of its technological advantage and will suffer difficult economic adjustments, according to a recently published paper.
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Dilbert’s August 12th comic about phishing cought my eye. I get about 10-20 of these types of e-mail a day. Hopefully everyone knows NOT to click a link in an e-mail, and that no bank will ever ask you for your password in an e-mail. Another sign that an e-mail is fake […]
So today is our housewarming party! We’ve invited some friends, family, and colleagues over for some good food & drinks. We haven’t gotten nearly as much done as we wanted to before the party. Our original plan to paint & get art to cover the walls somehow fell behind schedule. We […]