Posted by FRSP on 10/13/08 in Technology
If you download music from the internet, you do get the songs you want, but you don’t end up with a CD. You have to go back at some point and burn a physical CD at some point. Then most people just grab a sharpie pen or other marker and scribble the name of the [...]
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Posted by Searcher on 09/26/08 in Technology
Ever since I did a report on the cotton gin when I was a freshman in high school, I’ve been enamored with the way technology marginalizes the human worker. After enough improvements to the cotton gin, they didn’t even need slaves anymore.
I’m a nerd. I know.
Anyway, I recently took a history class that focused on [...]
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Posted by Searcher on 07/18/08 in Technology
A few years back I had completed a project that required aerial mapping of Thailand, Hong Kong and most of China – detailed mapping, complete with digital images, data and labeling to ensure that it was accurate. After the project was over it became relatively useless, but I found that keeping it was worthwhile and [...]
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Posted by Searcher on 02/15/08 in Technology
I feel at least a little lucky. When I started college, the digital age had just kicked in at full steam. We had finally reached the point where everyone had a computer and people were starting to learn what iPods were and how to use Google to do their homework. I had spend high school [...]
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Posted by Searcher on 01/23/08 in Technology
Finding a company that you can trust in terms of finding a reverse cellular phone number can be complicated, as there are literally hundreds of sites out there that offer “information” for a fee. Often, the information these sites offer for a fee is useless and could have been found using any standard free people [...]
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