Joke: Unorthodox Math

The year was 1955. I was six years old and ready to start my primary education. At that time you went directly to first grade; there was no time for Kindergarten.
I still remember my first day at school. It was a windy day. My hands were sweating profusely and my whole [...]

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Thunderbird Released Version 2.0.0.12

In an effort to keep up with the latest stability and security improvements included in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird’s execs released yesterday its version 2.0.0.12.
This latest patch fixed five security vulnerabilities including one labeled as critical by Mozilla, along with more than twenty stability improvements.
It is to be noted that Thunderbird is now also [...]

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Microsoft Fined a Record $1.3 Billion

Today the European Union fined Microsoft a record $1.3 billion for delaying compliance to Europe’s legislation for the amount it charges rivals for software information.
EU regulators said the company charged “unreasonable prices” until last October to software developers who wanted to make products compatible with the Windows desktop operating system.

The EU alleged that Microsoft withheld [...]

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iTunes Roars in the Music Retail World

Yesterday Apple captured the attention of the media after announcing the retouch of its stylish MacBook lineup. They also touted that iTunes had become the number 2 music retailer in the U.S., only behind Wal-Mart.

“We’d like to thank the over 50 million music lovers who have helped the iTunes Store reach this incredible milestone,” said [...]

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Apple Revamps Its Stylish MacBook Lineup

Today Apple updated its MacBook and MacBook Pro lineups with Intel’s Penryn processors, while bringing Multi-Touch trackpads to MacBook Pros.
The MacBook Pro is available with Core 2 Duo (Penryn) processors at up to 2.6GHz and up to 6MB of cache memory. Storage options have been revised to include up to a 300GB hard drive. [...]

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Apple Releases New iPhone and iPod Touch Firmware

Apple released today OS X firmware update 1.1.4 for the iPhone and iPod Touch, saying very little about the new features. It’s now available for download and installation through iTunes.
Apple isn’t offering any specific details on what’s changed in this new release, except to say that the 1.1.4 release “includes bug fixes [...]

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Joke: The Old Fisherman and the Frog

As the aging process takes place, our bodies gradually decrease its vital functions. Much to our displeasure, our body doesn’t work the same way when we are 75 years old in comparison when we were “super humans” at age 20. That is a fact of life that admits no discussion.
Having said that, as [...]

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And the Winner is………

After a long and dramatic writers’ strike, last night was a red-carpet experience for the eccentric Hollywood community in search of their fifteen minutes of fame. As usual, there was lots of fingernail biting, sweat and last minutes prayers. It was the night of the golden statuette better known as The [...]

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Building a Car With 956,000 Matchsticks

To build a full scale McLaren 4/14 F1 car with a little less than one million matchsticks during a period of six years, in my opinion requires determination, persistence and patience.  Putting these three great values inside one man is quite difficult but not impossible.
Michael Arndt is a man with aforementioned qualities.  Over the course [...]

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Mozilla Creates New Entity to Manage Thunderbird

Since September of last year, Mozilla Foundation had been considering the option of creating a special entity to take care of its e-mail client Thunderbird. They considered that after years of developing Firefox and Thunderbird as Mozilla Corporation, competition of both products for human, time and technological resources was slowing both products’ development.
A [...]

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