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Christmasville (exe): Santa Claus has gone missing and Christmas is in jeopardy. Your investigation starts in the land of Kris Kringle - Christmasville. Your new friends, Abominable Snowman, Reindeer, and Elf will help you to find the truth behind the disappearance of Santa in this seek-and-find holiday adventure for the entire family.; Tags: Santa Claus; Software downloads 2007-11-30
Are sales pitches reality?: Are sales pitches reality?How one sells oneself......should matter to lots of people, prospective customers most of all. Credibility is a lot more important than people sometimes realize.I don't know......I have a lot of respect for Pamela and have been a Novell/SuSE advocate for a long time.I need to reevaluate...; Tags: Linux, Sales strategy, OPEN SOURCE, sales, Yagotta; Discussion threads 2007-10-01
Santa Claus Goes Blu ...!: Santa Claus Goes Blu ...!Great!This is great, but what about this:http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=41362?; Tags: Blu, Santa Claus; Discussion threads 2007-01-12
Santa Claus high-tech tools: If you dont believe that Santa Claus can deliver presents to millions of homes in a single night, Larry Silverberg, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University NCSU, explains that Santas society of elves has an understanding of physics and engineering that exceeds our own. In...; Tags: Biotechnology, tool, Santa, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Santa Claus; Blog posts 2006-12-24
Air as a building material: Air as a building materialSince you asked...An inflatable home is about as dumb as ideas get. An inflatable pavilion is maybe less so, for novelty's sake, but if it's going to be up for more than a few days I'd generally prefer a tent.Why? I have some experience with inflatable...; Tags: Santa Claus, inflatable house; Discussion threads 2006-08-19

AMD preps high-performance chips for desktops: AMD preps high-performance chips for desktopsmmmmmmyummy! cant wait to get my hands on some of those.... but I'll wait until i can get an nVidia nForce4 chipset, so i can run 2 PCIe Geforce 6800s in SLI :-)Don't hold your breath for a 3.46 Gig. Pig 4 any...; Tags: Desktops, Leadership, Processors, Santa Claus, Hindsight, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., desktop, Inhell, high-performance; Discussion threads 2004-10-15

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Citizen journalism and traditional news: I've been experimenting recently with CNN's site for "citizen journalism" named iReport. I created a few video posts of myself in response to requests for questions targeted at future visitors to Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" (you can see my iReport site here - http://www.ireport.com/people/JohnCarroll). There are a few kinks in...; Tags: Video Camera, Video, Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-07-21
Game Package (exe): Game Package 1 is 5 humorous games in one package. Whatever your tastes, at least one is bound to tickle your funny bone. A drunk Santa, a Benny Hill mouse, a celebrity basher, pirates with character and a war between turkeys and potatoes. This version is the first release on...; Tags: Making Video Games, Game Package 1, Games, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2008-07-17
2009 Acura TSX: Photo gallery:2009 Acura TSXBecause of its solid and comfortable everyday driver demeanor, buyers of the new 2009 Acura TSX will probably opt for the five-speed automatic transmission, for ease of driving in traffic and urban settings. And that's unfortunate, because to appreciate Honda's capability to build truly efficient engines that...; Tags: Acura, Acura TSX; Product reviews 2008-07-03
Solar power, no money down, could prove profitable: You get a solar installation, you could get positive cash flow, and you pay no money down. Sounds like an offer you might read in some spam note from Bulgaria. But it's a legitimate offer from an legitimate cleantech company in California and Arizona. Solar...; Tags: Electricity, Solar Energy, California, Arizona, Solar City, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-06-30
Mint 220 - Wireless Digital Music Station: The Mint 220 Wireless Digital Music Station offers us something that we haven't yet seen in an iPod speaker dock. Instead of combining iPod playback with a CD player or AM/FM alarm clock radio, the Mint 220 gives you the ability to wirelessly stream any audio from a PC or...; Tags: Digital music, Digital media, wireless, Bass, Mint 220, dock; Product reviews 2008-06-24
The Apprentice Los Angeles (zip): Compete for the opportunity of a lifetime with the legendary Donald Trump and his children, Ivanka and Don Jr. Play against 12 of your favorite contestants. Battle it out in the boardroom. Combine Action and Strategy to Win! Serve customers efficiently. Oversee a team of helpers. Manage your time and...; Tags: Legacy Interactive, Team Management, Strategy, Management; Software downloads 2008-06-20
An Irregular experience with Oracle: I was in Lisbon, Portugal yesterday, attending Oracle EMEA's marketing kick off. This was unusual on three counts: I tend to stick it to Oracle on any and every occasion It's rare for someone with my background to be invited to these affairs ...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Web 2.0, Channel Management, Public Relations, Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-06-18
Americans growing their own: veggies this time: Americans growing their own: veggies this timeGood idea.When I was a kid we always had a vegetable garden in the suburbs. Tomatoes, cucumbers carrorts and lettuce. That way you don't have to worry about what type of pesticides companies use. Not only that, they taste so much better, especially the...; Tags: lawn, herb; Discussion threads 2008-06-12
AMD announces Puma laptop platform, Mobile Radeon 3800 GPU: Located in the PC component capital of the world, Computex has become the tradeshow for chipsets, so it's no surprise AMD chose to announce its new mobile platform here in Taiwan today. (You can watch the press conference here.) Known by its code-name Puma, the platform itself doesn't have a...; Tags: Mobile, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Laptop Computer, Radeon, GPU, Puma, Radeon 3200, Puma Platform, ATI XGP, Chipsets, Notebooks, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris; Blog posts 2008-06-04
NASA IG: Scientists were muzzled: NASA IG: Scientists were muzzledI don't think so!If this administration is writting his pay check, than they can control what the researcher is doing and saying.As for global warming, it seems to be limited to glaciers in the mountains and at the poles. The temperature did not changed much in...; Tags: Workforce management, NASA, administration, NASA IG; Discussion threads 2008-06-03
Toddler finds way to really green solar: turning green plants into photovoltaics: The sandwich of materials that is today's solar panel. Courtesy: Biosolar. Biosolar's a toddler chronologically, just turned two years old in April. But they're already publicly traded and they could stand tall in the expanding field of photovolataics, making electricity from the sun....; Tags: Panel, Dr., Photovoltaics, Biosolar, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-05-30
Blade's "rackonomics" approach to data center cooling: I love it when companies pitch me because they've been reading this blog and have something that they think one-ups something I've already written about. Thus was the case with Blade Network Technologies, an upstart in the blade networking space working closely with blade giants IBM, NEC and Hewlett-Packard. (Others...; Tags: Data Center, Network, Blade, Switch, Blade Networks, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-05-28
Market Alternatives for Sun: Market Alternatives for SunLack of dividend is the root of the problemAlmost none of these tech companies issue dividends, and those that do have quite low yields (MSFT 1.57, Intel 2.3).It used to be that the dividend was a major reason to be an investor, but take that away, and...; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial accounting, Sun Microsystems Inc., dividend; Discussion threads 2008-05-28
Rumor Mill: What's just around the bend from Apple: It time for a Friday rumor roundup and if it seems like most of the rumors are iPhone-related, that's because they are. Today I'll start off with a couple that aren't iPhone rumors. LED Screens in all MacBooks by 2009 Word is that Apple will start...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Light-emitting Diode, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., LED Screens, 3G, Engineering, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-05-23