Category: Employee Thoughts
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The Worst Thing You Can Do To Your Portable Computer
By Scott@Smalldog.com With the new school year upon us the MacBooks and MacBook Pros have been selling like hot cakes (apparently hot cakes are quite popular.) These computers go everywhere their owner goes – classes, the dorm rooms, libraries and quite possibly most important of all… the cafés! Downtown Burlington, VT has, appropriately as any…
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Hard drives are the big 5-0!
From a Seagate promotional email: Middle-Aged Marvel: 50 Years Later, Hard Drives Keep Getting Better A very important anniversary was celebrated recently: On September 13, 1956, IBM began shipping the first magnetic hard disk drive, called RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control). It was about the size of two phone booths and stored…
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My Take on Microsoft's Zune Take 4
Today Microsoft revealed the Zune. It is a pretty cool looking and sounding device – it will give the iPod a slight run for the holiday money this year. You can read about it at PC World Magazine here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127145/article.html Some of the more interesting features: – 3” Screen – Built-in wi/fi for swapping music,…
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WOOF Update
Well, it’s only one more day until WOOF is revealed! Here is a photo to help you try and decipher what WOOF is all about…
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Marine scientists use dog to sniff out rare right whales
A Tech Tails reader forwarded me an article from the New England Aquarium’s monthly newsletter on how dogs are now being used to sniff out whale poop before it sinks to the bottom of the ocean because the ‘stuff’ can give scientists a lot of valuable information on right whales. It’s quite interesting how dogs…
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My Dogs by Steven Huneck
What’s happening on September 13th? All I can tell you is that the word is WOOF. Speaking of woofs, Grace and I headed up to Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom and St. Johnsbury to visit Vermont’s most famous dog artist, Steven Huneck and his wife Gwynn. You probably have seen Steven’s work often featuring his black lab,…
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Geek Out America!!
By Art Hendrickson At some point in American culture, it was determined that appearing as a geek or as “geeky”, was a negative thing. Almost deplorable if you wanted to be one of the cool cats. Everyone now knows that society has progressed to the point where many people have access to technology. It’s become…
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Starve a Fever, Feed a Cold
For the last week I have been fighting off getting a cold. Chances are you’re probably coming down with one when you get that ole’ familiar scratchy feeling in the back of your throat and you start coughing. Add in a few sniffles and yup, the odds are pretty good! Getting a cold couldn’t come…