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ThePlanet Database Center Damaged By Fire
News is not trickling in very quickly. I got an email from the folks at Entrecards, informing me that their website is down due to a fire at ThePlanet Database Center. The datacenter is located in Houston, Texas. Apparently, an electrical transformer exploded, burning down three walls. The electrical power has been turned off, and [...]
Google Deleting Blogger Blogs?
I’d found some disturbing information while doing some blog and news research this morning. Reports that Google is deleting Blogger blogs (and possibly de-indexing others) are alarming. I don’t see how this can bode well for Blogger at all. Perhaps Google’s takeover of the popular blogging platform was with this very thing in mind– to [...]
The Entertainment Age
My generation (Generation X in America) grew up in what is known in popular culture as the “Information Age.” Technology was spawning inventions and geo-political implications, like the man on the moon, Reagan’s “Star Wars” defense plan, televisions and VCRs, and the inception of the Internet. Can you believe that all these things occurred only [...]
Find Out If You Are Owed Money
There’s a website up to help you see if you are owed money from old tax refunds or other unclaimed funds in New York State; it’s the State Comptroller’s Office.
For federal unclaimed funds, go here to the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators. Wow, that’s a mouthful of a title.
Years ago, I found [...]
Building Your Own Server
I’d read months ago that Microsoft wanted to make it possible for every home to have their very own home-based server. (I’d also once read about every home having their very own electricity generator– how cool is that?). Having a home server is actually very appealing, since I am a do-it-yourself kind of gal. It’s [...]
Taking Google Maps Too Seriously
The Internet is a wonderful thing. So is information. But some things we do not want plastered all over the Internet, like our health records, and the floor plans to the Pentagon. Right? Google thinks otherwise.
Pentagon Bans Google Team from Bases
WASHINGTON (AP) — Citing security risks, the Pentagon banned Google teams from making detailed street-level [...]
The Reliable Keyboard
Innovation is a cool thing. I like innovation. But some things have been around for a long time because they are perfect as they are. Take the keyboard– you know, the keyboard for your computer, which is a deriative of the keyboard on those old typewriters of long past (remember those? I do!). The keyboard [...]
The Information Age
If there is anything I love most about the Internet, it is that information is readily available. At no other time in history has so much information, and disinformation, been available to a person. I am by nature inquisitive, so I reap many of the Internet’s benefits. I can’t tell you how thrilling it is [...]
IZEARanks Rocks
The newest blog ranking system in the blogosphere is the illustrious IZEARanks, the brainchild of Ted Murphy (Murphy is a “serial entrepreneur” and CEO of PayPerPost, IZEA, MindComet, Social Spark, Rock Startup, and those really cool Blogger’s Choice Awards). IZEARanks has a system called “RealRank” that determines a blog’s value by its actual traffic and [...]
Zion Oil Company
I’ve heard about this in the news from time to time (not major media news, but the small quirky Internet news I read). It’s about Zion Oil and Gas. Here’s the scoop on a press release I recently saw:
Source: Zion Oil & Gas, Inc.Zion Oil Announces Follow-on Public Offering to Fund Its Exploration Program [...]
Best Buy Sued for $54 Million
It’s been floating around in the blogosphere and media for quite a while now, but it bears constant exposure. It’s about Raelyn Campbell, a woman who left her laptop with Best Buy’s Geek Squad, for repairs. Best Buy “lost” her laptop but falsified reports and did not inform her of the theft/loss of her laptop [...]
