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The Day the LOLcats Died (due to SOPA/PIPA)

Leave a Comment Posted by on January 19, 2012

I realize that yesterday was the internet blackout in opposition to SOPA/PIPA but I’m not done sharing my opposition yet.  But this time its in a funny video form that is just too good to pass up sharing.  Please everyone, lets save those LOLcats.

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On Strike to Oppose SOPA and PIPA

1 Comment Posted by on January 17, 2012

I’m sure those of you in the United States have heard about the two pieces of legislation attempting to be passed.  This would be the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA).  Both of these pieces of legislation threaten to fundamentally break the Internet.  But why should people be opposed to either SOPA [...]

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RIP Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

1 Comment Posted by on October 5, 2011

I’m sure I’m not the first, nor will I be the last, to post about the passing of Steve Jobs today.  Steve Jobs was a visionary and is responsible for many of innovations we’ve come to take for granted nowadays.  Without Mr. Jobs, we would never purchase music online to play on our mp3 players nor would [...]

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Marvel Comes to Netflix

2 Comments Posted by on May 2, 2011

I’ve never made it a secret that I’m a big fan of Netflix’s streaming service.  I use it all the time to catch up on older TV shows and movies that I have missed out on.  Between my Xbox and iPhone I’m pretty much able to watch whenever I want. Netflix has done a fantastic [...]

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Robotics Merit Badge

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 15, 2011

Little known fact about me, is that I am an Eagle Scout.  As such I remember my scouting days quite fondly.  BSA has always been good about adding or removing merit badges based on current cultural influences.  Now they’ve added a new merit badge for Robotics.  Honestly, if I were still a scout I would [...]

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Kindle Gets Ads

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 14, 2011

For those of you who follow me on Twitter you might have noticed my repeated profession of love for my 3G Kindle.  Well that and a list of all the Zombie books I’ve completed lately.  There’s just something I enjoy about being able to have thousands of books in one tiny device.  And being able [...]

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Netflix Makes a Big Move

Leave a Comment Posted by on March 21, 2011

I haven’t talked about it much on the blog, but I’m a big fan of Netflix and its streaming services.  When the capability to stream content to the Xbox 360 first debuted  I bit the bullet and decided to give Netflix a try.  It was nice getting DVDs in the mail but the instant gratification [...]

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Picks of the Week – 17 December 2010

1 Comment Posted by on December 17, 2010

With the week coming to an end and the holidays just a snowball throw away, here are the Picks of the Week for the week of December 17, 2010.  We at the Nerds of the Round Table, have scanned and scoured through the web, online stores and movie rental databases to bring you the best [...]

Computers, General, iPhone, Picks of the Week, Technology News, TV

Mankind is in Jeopardy Against Machine

1 Comment Posted by on December 14, 2010

Place your bets folks!  Cylons versus man.  Deep Blue versus Kasparov.  T-1000 versus Connor.  Hal 9000 versus Dave.  You guessed it, man will face off against a machine, yet again.  This time in the game show Jeopardy realm. Two of the venerable game show’s most successful champions — Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter — will [...]

Computers, General, Technology News, TV

WordPress Outage

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 19, 2010

Some of you may have noticed yesterday that WordPress was down for a while.  Seems it was down for about 110 minutes, but now things seem to be working properly.  Kudos to the WordPress folks for getting us back online so quickly. My main concern was whether this WordPress failure would result in a data loss.  This [...]

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