Monthly Archives: January 2011

Middletown Press Organizing Snow Shoveling Teams To Dig Out Elderly

January 31, 2011
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What a great thing for a newspaper to do. The Middletown Press is organizing teams of volunteers to help shovel out the elderly before the got hit with another foot or more of snow Wednesday. Police last weekend asked the local newspaper to alert its readers that a dozen seniors had called police saying...

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Buying A New PC?: Hold Off For USB 3 Port & Wi-Di

January 31, 2011
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If you are in the market for a new laptop or PC run on Microsoft, don’t buy one unless it has the new USB 3 port, it will make a world of a difference. USB – which stands for Universal Serial Bus – is the small data storage device which holds files, photos, and...

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Microsoft Explorer Has New Dangerous Hole, Stop Using Until Fixed

January 30, 2011
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The Wall Street Journal says that Microsoft said is looking in “a new vulnerability that affects every version of Windows currently supported. This is one of those zero-day vulnerabilities that come out of left field once in awhile and can be used by hackers to create troublemaking attacks.” In a posting by Arik Hesseldahl...

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Navigating Valentine’s Day and Other Capitalistic Tyrannies

January 30, 2011
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Navigating Valentine’s Day and Other Capitalistic Tyrannies

What do Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Valentine’s Day have in common? They are holidays that legislate feelings and encourage (require) us to spend lots of money. In the case of Valentine’s Day that will be here in two weeks, love is the legislated feeling. This strikes me as being odd, perhaps even bizarre. What have...

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