I had a belly laugh today when I ran across this wonderful link. How many times have you gotten an email or see a post online asking what is xxx? or where do I find that? So what I told you I had a professional photography site named perform photography and neglected to provide a link. Would you post a comment asking where it is? Well, here let me help you find it:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=performphotography
By the way, you can find my photo site here: http://performphotography.com\
cheers!
Yes this is legal. Yes it is a good deal: for example: get Windows 7 Ultimate, Server 2008 R2, Sql Server, Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007, etc for $349 – 28% of the cost using this code: TMSAM07 so the total cost is $251.28. If you already have TechNet Direct, use the code to renew, and pay only $179.28 plus tax. $186.86 for me)
People: this is good for ~10 copies of Windows 7 Ultimate, plus 10 copies of Office 2007 Ultimate. all for HALF the cost of one retail copy of Windows 7.
go to http://technet.microsoft.com and upgrade all your systems cheap. Hurry, these codes don’t last long..
cheers.
Age related disease such as bone fragility, cardiovascular disease, and kidney and arterial calcification,may be a result of not enough vitamin K intake according to new scientific research. Eat your greens! http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090917131554.htm
Apparently the risk of cancer is three times more likely if tanning beds are used frequently before the age of 30.
Apparently new research suggests factors such as the softness of a food can have a significant impact on the ability of the body to convert the stored energy. For example, two sets of rats fed the exact same calorie content, but one set was fed hard food, the other soft. The rats receiving the softer food were significantly overweight compared do the other group. Check out this fantastic read if you are watching what you eat:
I stumbled upon Ning yesterday during my career search. Do you have a passion, profession or a hobby? There is most likely a group that shares your passion on Ning: www.ning.com or you can start your own in minutes without programming knowledge. Check it out, or read more here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/26/ning-in-full/comment-page-3/
On the 4th the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to delay the transition that was set to happen on the 17th. The cause of the delay stems from the lack of money funding the “free Converter boxes” initiative. The bill allows stations to switch before this date if they choose.
Another interesting note is the fear of a massive upswing in heavy metals in landfills due to consumers throwing away their old analogue sets instead of recycling them.
Folks, please find a recycler in your area using the E-cycling Central website: http://www.eiae.org/
and don’t be an idiot and get electrocuted…
It’s amazing that the day is nearly here.
Billed as perhaps the greatest leap in television since "living color," the transition to digital TV is a mere 39 days away, and in serious trouble: millions of households still aren’t ready for the conversion and a government program created to subsidize the hardware needed by many has run out of money.
Get your rebate form here https://www.dtv2009.gov/
It amazes me that a standard is needed for a product consumed by the littlest of us, but apparently it’s necessary. Apparently one part in a million is safe enough; as was set by the FDA this month. This is a pull-back from the FDA’s initial standing:
“ The agency had left the impression of a zero tolerance on Oct. 3 when it stated: "FDA is currently unable to establish any level of melamine and melamine-related compounds in infant formula that does not raise public health concerns."
Melamine was traced to four infant deaths in China due to contamination, and two samples of US made infant formula were found to have traces below the new standard. Read more here:http://www.physorg.com/news147111214.html
Not that it’s really all that important to me, but it was interesting to find out I type about one word per second, or 60 words a minute. How fast to you type? http://speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com/
For some strange reason, the thought
occurred to me that brushing your teeth might actually help your heart. Perhaps it’s because plaque is both the build-up in blood cells as well as on your teeth. Well, now two scientific studies have linked bad teeth care and a higher risk of heart disease. I recommend getting a tongue scraper as well, they really work. http://www.physorg.com/news140292034.html
If you have zonealarm installed, you should get the patch, or if you have no connectivity on another PC, uninstall the product. The problem manifests itself as the ability to ping servers (I have always used www.ford.com), but IE or Firefox will not be able to connect to any website. You should enable windows’ firewall at least if you choose to uninstall zonealarm, or get something to protect you in the interim, as it can take as little as four minutes to compromise an UNPATCHED windows box with no NAT or firewall.
About two months ago, I upgraded my client to the new version of AVG. I’ve used this product for several years, mostly because it’s free. I had some annoying issues with the free version because of an incompatibility with Vista’s new security method where session 0 is no longer available. The console session in XP was Session 0, but in Vista it is the context only services run under. The purpose is to isolate the user’s GUI from services that may be malicious. The user now logs into session 1. Services that need to pop-up messages to the user would just send the command to draw a pop-up message to the same session that it runs under (service account.) In Vista with SP1 (yes, the initial release of Vista is sp1), they have “allowed’ services to send messages to console session 0 still, but it causes a pop-up stating there is an application that is trying to display a message. You have to click on the window, and Vista switches the view to Console 0 session so that you can interact with the service. AVG pop-ups for virus definition installation summary in 7.5 attempted to display summary and caused these interruptions, which was annoying weekly ritual. Note that in the next service pack Microsoft has stated they will no longer provide this functionality; we will have to wait and see. Remote control switches have changed for console sessions as well.
I had hoped V8.x would fix this, and it did. But it also seemed 
bloated to me. I noticed that in my searches there were circles spinning as soon as I got results. I quickly tracked it down to the new AVG link scanner. It is supposed to check if a link is safe before you click on it. That was annoying as hell to me because it was taking system resources, and was touching all these sites without my authority. I went into the AVG control panel and disabled the feature. I wondered how much additional traffic this was causing, and if it was going to throw off Google’s search / link tracking. It turns out at least the former is true. Wired noticed a significant increase in traffic to their site; read more about this here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/13/avg_scanner_skews_web_traffic_numbers/
I have been hearing a lot over the last year or so how the honey bees seem to be disappearing suddenly. I hadn’t heard any reasons why this may be until now. According to researchers from the University of Virginia, air pollution levels have climbed to a high enough level to impede the bee’s ability to follow the scent of flowers. They found that the distance is cut by more than a fourth when pollution levels are high. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/04/AR2008050401737.html?hpid=topnews
I new search dedicated to forums is in beta. I don’t know how many times I have cursed at a forum’s search “capabilities.” Frequently I find no way to use quotes around a phrase. It’s maddening when you are looking for something obscure. Newly launched Twing comes to the rescue.
http://twing.com/
The trifecta of airlines (Aloha, ATA, and Skybus) that went bankrupt and ceased operations last week may soon have extra company.
Scott McCartney, columnist for The Wall Street Journal, has instituted a “death watch” of sorts in his latest column, highlighting Alitalia, Frontier, ExpressJet, and SunCountry as airlines in peril. The culprits? The same woes you’ve heard about all year—high fuel prices, costly overhead, and intense competition from rival airlines. If you have a ticket on any of these lines, you may want to consider making alternate arrangements.
“Passenger carriers are no longer required to honor tickets of failed competitors because Congress let a government protection for travelers expire in 2006,” says McCartney. So unlike in previous years, ticketholders on the three failed airlines found themselves having to pay up or be stuck
There is a lot of speculation going on about what Google has planned. With the analogue airwaves that will become available, imagine if Google uses this bandwidth for free or nearly free Internet/cell phone use? Google is working on an open-source cell phone operating system. more here: http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/13/2237218&from=rss
So much is happening with the music industry. Distribution channels are changing, 
digital rights are changing, and society is changing what they consider is important, and most critically, how they will pay for content. Napster, mp3,and iPods have roots in this change. The music industry can no longer depend on CD sales for profit. The use of physical resources to distribute and the price inflation to the many hands involved with the distribution mechanism is already too expensive and is only getting worse due to rising costs of energy. These costs and the ability to pay for only the songs someone wants is driving the music industry to a new model. RIAA has proven how desperate the music industry has become. Now FINALLY the music industry understands they are doing the equivalent of trying to force sales of “horse whips” when the automobile has become mainstream. Pure genius!
Welcome to the dawn of Music 2.0! What is Music 2.0? We’re still finding out, but it’s not physical media anymore. It’s music that is distributed, filtered, and decided by the public that are listening via Myspace, Podcasts, iTunes etc.
A panel of music businesses gathered yesterday, Feb 26, 2008 to discuss:
“Consider the statements that were made today without controversy:
- DRM on purchased music is dead
- A utility pricing model or flat-rate fee for music might be the way to go
- Ad-supported streaming music sites like iMeem are legitimate players
- Indie music accounts for upwards of 30 percent of music sales
- Napster isn’t losing $70 million per quarter (and is breaking even)
- The music business is a bastion of creativity and experimentation “
read more here:http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080226-music-exec-music-1-0-is-dead.html
You may not run into this error, but when Vista SP1 is released publicly, you may run into the same problem I did. When I attempted to run the SP1 x86 for Vista, I got the following message:
“Windows Vista Service Pack 1 cannot be installed on your computer because the language of Windows Vista you have installed is not supported or you have installed a language pack that is not supported.
Windows Vista Service pack 1 can only be installed on computers running the English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish versions of Windows Vista or computers running only those language packs.”
Knowledge Base article 947876decribes what to do: open your control panel, click on Clock, Language, and Region. Then the KB article tells you the wrong area to look. Instead look for “Install or Uninstall display Languages: 
, click next, then Select “remove languages” and see if anything besides your main language pack is installed. Remove it, reboot and the SP1 for Vista should install.
Alternatively, you can download the multi-language version of the SP when it becomes available.
I apparently had installed a language pack when I opened an email from a vendor who is from Sweden.
