Hello all! I am blogging on location in Cochabomba, Bolivia. My family and I arrived here Saturday morning after a long three legged trip. It was my son’s first time flying and he did pretty good for a 17 month old. He only screamed out, at the top of his lungs, for five minutes straight, [...]

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Regrettably, I have never been to an Apple Store, only the Apple section of different computer stores. After reading this article in Wired, I think I would like to see one for myself. The amount of planning and detail put into a store is totally amazing. Apple goes through great lengths to make sure that [...]

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Scientist have successfully grown human corneas in the eyes of partially blind animals. This breakthrough may pave the way to a viable source of replacement corneas for millions of people.

Humans are currently the only source of corneas for transplantation, and the supply of donor tissue is limited.
In addition, the artificial corneas may actually work better [...]

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It looks as though BlogShares has found a way to continue its service.
Read all about it.

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I have recently been getting more involved in photography. (I just upgraded my camera to the Canon Digital Rebel over Thanksgiving weekend.) Upon seeing an article titled, Breaking the Gigapixel Barrier, I was expecting to see a a gigapixel camera new to the market. Needless to say, NO SUCH LUCK. This is probably for the [...]

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Here is a new MP3 player that is suited for the active person. The beauty of it is that it uses Flash Memory, not a hard drive. This MP3 player is packed with several features most notably, the 1GB memory, FM tuner, and a long-life built-in rechargeable battery. Now the price is a bit steep, [...]

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John of John’s Jottings is celebrating his first anniversary of blogging. This is a site that I keep track off on a regular basis because there are usually things on it that I find of use. For John’s anniversary post he gives some stats on the status of his site. It is good to see [...]

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Flash…

Yahoo, which issued the new IM software Thursday, reported that it first learned of the vulnerability via a warning posted to a security message board Tuesday night. The company said it immediately began working to validate the flaw and address the issue. Yahoo recommends updating its IM software on a regular basis to ensure customers [...]

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I just came across an annoying popup that caught my attention. The heading says, “Win This System”. Then there is a picture of a pretty sweet looking computer setup. The system is labeled as a MACH 3.8 Personal SuperComputer. Now two things caught my attention about this ad; first is the monitor, it is undeniably [...]

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The LOTD is P and unfortunately, I won’t be playing this one. Finding the right words for the links is a time consuming exercise. Yes, it’s true, I do have to think a bit when I play the letter game. I’m currently on a work related vacation retreat at the Ritz Carlton, Amelia Island. For [...]

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I can barely remember the series. I had to be around 11 or 12 when the show first came on and from what I remember of it, I liked. The second time around things are a bit different.

In the new version, airing Monday and Tuesday on the Sci Fi Channel (9 p.m. EST), Edward James [...]

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It turns out that spam stopping websites are under an attack from an irate spammer.

The Mimail-L Windows virus poses as an e-mail from a woman called Wendy who writes about a sexual encounter and offers readers nude photographs.
Opening the message’s attachment rewards users with a virus that forwards itself to everyone in their e-mail [...]

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NewScientist reports that Toshiba has created a new type of disappearing ink that can revolutionize our paper recycling industry.

Toshiba’s erasable ink can be used in ordinary laser jet printers and pens. A printed sheet is wiped clean by passing it through an erasing machine. The “decolourable” ink, which has been tinted blue to help distinguish [...]

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original opus, objectionably osmosed
opaque, obviously overbold and outright, opulence
other outlandish outpost
Over the top, outstanding, ornate
opinion, oath, obligation
observation, omission, oversight
optimacy, ominous, off-color
overdue or omitted, ordering optate orders
obiter opene oafish eyes
occupational operation overtly open
obtain, organize, overcome
organization opposes opportunity
oracle, obese, opposition
organ outfit
opine optimum output
object to objectively objectionable
outwardly odd and overwhelming
opportunity, opulent and overpriced
onslaught of obsoletion
ofoto, outrageous, outlandish

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MIT’s online program, IAP, is offering a course on Getting Started with Weblogs. The course is geared to get the students up and running with a weblog. Here is the course description:

Weblogs, or “blogs” for short, have emerged in recent years as an important new tool for writing on the Web. They are gaining widespread [...]

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BlogShares is no more. They have decided to close up shop after this last bit of technical problems.

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N is for notice, nauseating, nasty, no no
N is for needy, nervous, negating, nullifying
N is for numerous, nothings, nowhere, nonextant
N is for 1985, noisome, narcissistic
N is for necessitate, new, netting, novelty
N is for nuts, nonsensical, negligence
N is for noisy, notorious, numbing, nag
N is for negotiated not networked
N is for no nexus, non secure, nonsense, no [...]

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It looks like Apple wants a piece of the tablet market. They are apparently switching part of its production line over to making tablets.
Quanta, the Taiwanese company that makes many Apple notebooks, has been apparently switching its production to the new tablets, or at least that has been reported in the Taipei press since early [...]

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M is for maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malignant Monday
M is for misfortune, miasma, miserable moment
M is for marvelous, magnanimous mechanism
M is for mischief, malpractice, maltreatment, misconduct, mishandling, muckraking
M is for mercurial, mean, mannerless, mindless morons
M is for munitions, mastery, might, mainstay, moral
M is for migrant, maverick, marooned, misanthropic
M is for mud, malice, misdeed, massed megacorp
M is [...]

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Once again we have an example of money well spent in research. Food scientists at the UK’s University of Leeds have developed a formula for making the perfect piece of toast. The formula above was developed after 3 months of research and £10,000. The formula is impressive considering it is a recipe for toast.

The equation [...]

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