Lavender Diamond… Huh?
We are at a Rilo Kiley concert where we just saw a group called Lavender Diamond. It must be a put-on because the singer was just so corny. Nope, this girl is for real. Her choreography mimicked an...
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We Will Miss You, George
George Carlin George Carlin, 71, died of heart failure Sunday evening. He was the first comedian I remember seeing who spoke about real things in a painfully honest way, all while being funny as hell....
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My heart is sad today. One of my favorite comics George Carlin is gone. I can’t tell you the number of times my husband Justin and I have spent driving late at night listening to George’s cd’s and...
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The lead story of today’s local paper was titled Terror suspect linked to Visalia. When you read the article, it talks about a guy in Sprinfield, Illinois who was plotting to blow up a building. What...
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Laptop Waking Itself Up
I’ve been using a Dell Latitude E6400 laptop for work recently. Each night, I typically hibernate my laptop so the next day I can resume where I’ve left off, avoiding the whole shutdown and subsequent...
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Password limits. Why?
I was creating an account for a web site today and hit this error: Seriously? Why is there a limit to the password length? If I want a complex and impossible-to-guess password, I should have that...
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Click “Close” to Acknowledge
I’m not sure if this deserves to be complained about publicly, but it seems pretty strange to me that closing a dialog box equates to acknowledging receipt of the Quicken privacy notice–and annoying...
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Kill the Password
Wired Magazine: Kill the Password While Wired‘s cover story about the failure of passwords (“Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore”) is now a couple of months old, it...
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Birdemic: The Memoir
Following the so-called “World Tour 2010″ of “Birdemic: Shock and Terror”, director James Nguyen put pen to paper to write several rough paragraphs and called it “a memoir”. His bio claims that he is...
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