Category: Technology
By John on Jan 13, 2007 in Culture, Friends, Fun Stuff, General, Technology | 0 Comments
The folks at Weblog Tools Collection are hosting an essay contest about blogging, and I have submitted an entry. It’s about an experience I had as a result of creating a blog for my church.
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By John on Nov 27, 2006 in Culture, Family, Friends, General, Holidays, Kings Mountain, Mobile, Movies, Places, Southern, St. Petersburg, Technology, Weather | 0 Comments
We had a pretty typical Thanksgiving. As I’ve already reported, I drove to North Carolina last Monday, and then met friends up in Boone/Blowing Rock on Tuesday. Wednesday I stuck close to home and spent the day with Mom, and had dinner with her and some of her friends. It was overcast and rainy most of the day Wednesday.
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By John on Nov 2, 2006 in General, Technology | 0 Comments
The web is a dynamic place. Things change a lot here. If you are a repeat customer, you’ll notice that overall look and feel of Deep Something has changed. I just felt like it needed a refresh.
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By John on Oct 17, 2006 in Congress, Constitution, Crime, Politics, Society, Technology | 0 Comments
I’ve seen several articles about this over the past day or so. I’m linking to a brief article on Wired News. Apparently U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is laying the ground work for the more agressive government monitoring of the web, if not outright control. Disaffected people living in the United States may develop radical ideologies and potentially violent skills over the internet and that could present the next major U.S. security threat, Chertoff said on Monday.
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By John on Aug 25, 2006 in General, Technology | 1 Comment
Well, due to continuing performance issues with the hosting service I used (No Monthly Fees), and an arrogant and uncooperative customer service attitude, I decided to move as many of my accounts as possible. I think I’ve completed that move today.
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By John on Aug 8, 2006 in Business, Technology | 0 Comments
Along with the recently added “ratings” feature, we’ve now made the jump to mobile technologies.
Recently I was on the road for a few days and experiencing a hardware problem with the laptop, causing me to be unable to access email. So, I’ve made the jump to a mobile PC device. (I’ll write more about that [...]
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By John on Jul 17, 2006 in Business, Culture, Family, Fun Stuff, General, Humor, Movies, Technology | 0 Comments
As you may have noticed, there have not been a lot posts over the past couple of weeks. For the past three weeks, I’ve been on very tight deadlines with a bunch of very large proposals. For the first pay period of July, I’d put 110 hours on the time sheet. That’s two weeks, and I probably didn’t record all the time.
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By John on Jul 17, 2006 in General, Technology | 1 Comment
You may not yet have noticed, but using another one of the great Wordpress plugins, I’m offering a new feature. Now, when I post a book or movie review (or anything else I’d like to rate), I can add a rating mechanism at the end of the post.
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By John on Jul 5, 2006 in Constitution, Corruption, Politics, Presidency, Technology, The Courts | 0 Comments
Bloomberg is reporting that evidence seems to indicate the NSA approached AT&T months prior to 9/11 seeking to intercept telephone calls.
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By John on Jun 25, 2006 in Fun Stuff, Science, Technology | 0 Comments
You thought it was some sort of satirical headline, but I’m talking serious science here. According to this article, in as little as 19 months, scientists may have come up with an invisibility cloak that would mask microwaves and other forms of electromagnetic radiation.
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By John on Jun 13, 2006 in Congress, Science, Technology | 0 Comments
In an article at MSNBC renowned Physicist Stephen Hawking says humans must learn to inhabit other planets in order for the species to survive. He believes the earth, through some catastrophe, will become uninhabitable at some point in the future.
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By John on Jun 12, 2006 in Science, Technology | 0 Comments
Sitting stone still under a skull cap fitted with a couple dozen electrodes, Austrian scientist Peter Brunner stares at a laptop computer. Without so much as moving a nostril hair, he suddenly begins to compose a message — letter by letter — on a giant screen overhead.
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