Okay, I admit Google is my preference for, well, pretty much everything I want to find. Haven’t used a different search engine in months, perhaps longer. But tonight, for some reason, I realized how much Google really does know about me. It’s kinda scary when you add the publicly available information along [...]

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It’s not usual for me to drool all over any new piece of hardware - it takes a lot, and today - well, I found one of those things when I decided to try out the Logitech Wireless DJ Music System. Let me tell you - there is nothing for me to complain about with it. First of all, let me explain what exactly this thing is. It’s a way for you to have multiple music receivers in your home utilizing a single PC as the primary music source. Up to four receivers can be used one location. The receiver doubles as a charging station for the uber-cool remote control.

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One of today’s top videos on YouTube, this is a CRAZY gamer. When you see the speed at which he controls the PSP to ensure 100% accuracy in this game similar to Tetris and Galaga all in one without any shooting (does that make any sense?) - well just check out this video - it’s insane! Talk about eye-hand coordination extreme!

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My turn to talk about Google Apps - it’s the news of the week and no one can stop talking about it. To me, I have Google Apps, but I just can’t get used to their spreadsheets, I need the power of Excel - I’ve migrated in my life through PerfectCalc on a Kaypro II, Lotus 1-2-3, Quattro, Excel and now Excel 2007, which I see as a completely new application that allows you to truly flex all the muscle and power that Excel has to offer.

Don’t get me wrong, I think the days of physical software distribution are numbered - there just isn’t reason for it - and move to flash drives for lords sake. For all the money we spend, a few extra bucks for the distribution medium shouldn’t hurt anyone, especially Microsoft, at all. The only reason someone should have to buy physical software would be in a recovery effort, being able to boot from a USB flash drive and recover, or remove system ailments, etc.

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Breakdancing, as many of you are aware, is not one of my hobbies - however this video features breakdancing - or better yet is a tutorial to the basic steps. That’s the purpose of this post, sharing.

Since the advent of YouTube, people have finally been able to spread their knowledge to a nearly limitless audience instead of the boys and girls from the neighborhood. This guy has taken the time to really explain the basic steps of breakdancing, and it’s pretty cool.

What can you share with the world? Everyone’s always wanted their 15 seconds, so what will yours be?

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AOL is the first and only free e-mail provider to let you make up your own unique, personalized e-mail address. Not just the first part but the entire e-mail address — for example, you@thenameyouwant.com. Create e-mail addresses for your family, team, small business or anything you choose. If the address you want is available, we’ll get it for you — absolutely free.

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Federal health officials worked Friday to find the source of a multistate E. coli outbreak and warned consumers that even washing the suspect spinach won’t kill the sometimes deadly bacteria.

One person died and dozens of others were sickened in the 10-state outbreak, linked by Food and Drug Administration officials to bagged spinach.

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The blogosphere continues to grow and expand at an ever increasing rate, as does the number of new ‘writers,’ ‘journalists,’ and new breed of individuals who like to sit at home, in their pajamas, sipping coffee and scanning thousands of rss feeds daily and posting away.

You know, kinda like me! Well, times are continuing to develop more symbols of recognition, network affiliation and other points of reference to assist site vistors with signs of credibility. With so much to read these days, it helps when a simple symbol can lend at least some guidance, like movie and game ratings.

Well, now I wanna be a ‘SOB.’ Ahem, yes, I wanna be a ‘SOB.’ Stumbling along the site of ‘Successful Blog’ with the lovely host Liz Strauss, vis-a-vis some other site I can’t even recall at this time, I became instantly interested in what the site has to offer.

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Convicted murderers, rapists and hardened criminals from the maximum security section of New Bilibid Prison, are having their heads shaved as part of a national drive to collect human hair to help sponge up more than 50,000 gallons of fuel leaked off the central coast of the Philippines.

”The prisoners had their hearts touched and they all sent me a message saying there were willing to give their hair as their own small contribution.”

The 15,000 inmates at a maximum security prison in southern Manila, including 1,000 on death row, began donating hair on Tuesday as health officials ordered the evacuation of residents of a fishing village on Guimaras due to health risks.

Prisoners don’t need their hair anyway, right? An interesting resolution to a natural problem.

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Recently the EFF joined an amicus brief filed in support of Sima in its battle against DRM-vendor Macrovision. In essence, Macrovision is trying to leverage the DMCA into a technology mandate, forcing all digital video products in the future to respond to its analog-era DRM system.

Macrovision’s “Analog Copy Protection” (ACP) technology is intended to degrade the quality of video copies made on analog VCRs. It does this by intentionally adding noise to the vertical blanking interval of analog video signals. This noise confuses the automatic gain control (AGC) circuit used by analog VCRs. In short, Macrovision’s ACP is an exploit against a weakness in analog VCRs. Thanks to Section 1201(k) of the DMCA, VCR makers are now forbidden by law from fixing the weakness, which means that analog VCRs have remained vulnerable to ACP. In other words, Macrovision’s ACP is an antiquated DRM technology that owes its effectiveness in the analog world to a government mandate.

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