True Lies

The truth about contents in the stuff you buy at the grocery store is that it has all largely become a lie. Food makers

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We Lost Spirit

“NASA’s Spirit rover stopped transmitting data from Mars for more than 24 hours, mission managers said Thursday, calling it an ‘extremely serious anomaly.’” JPL

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Mike Rowe Caved

Does it bother anyone that this guy, Mike Rowe, with his website mikerowesoft.com, caved to Micro$oft? I think Mike had M$ firmly in hand,

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Talking to Pixl

(Right now, it is nice to have complete control over my own computer! Let us see if it will last.) After reading my article

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In Other News . . .

(Somehow, I find this rant comforting amidst all the angst of the Mac/Windows platform wars) =) In other news, while everyone is enjoying the

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THE GREAT SHIPS

The Universe is large and empty. But out, far and away in a small galaxy there lived the great ships. They were the last

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Big Bangs

Scientists are now sure they know how the universe will end, some billions of years from now. It will end in what they call

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THE SMALL MACS

The whispers are growing loud lately. Have you heard them? “These machines will have a scaled-down version of Mac OS and use flash drives

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THE CAR

I sit forever outside. Rain or sunshine. Heat and dust. It doesn’t matter, here on this used car lot in the desert. My windows

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DAYS OF AUGUST

Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Bleak, balmy days that are just a bit too hot (and humid). Balmy days for those of us

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WORLD MAKER, WORLD BENDER

I remember! At the beginning, when there was just these cool little green screen color computers from a fringe company, named Apple. In fact, they were called Apple IIs. Then came the introduction of the Macintosh, and it was world-shaking.

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