After more extensive testing, I have discovered that WoW does not play well with Vista yet. I guess I shouldn’t expect to get awesome performance from a game on a beta operating system (although surprisingly, you do get very good performance from your machine with this OS, which is confusing as it’s an early beta. [...]

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Right now, I am blogging this post with Internet Explorer 7. I must say, they’ve finally gotten around to some stuff that’s need to be fixed with Internet Explorer. For starters, they finally have tabs. They also finally fixed a bug that’s been around since version 3: ICONS! (see screenshot). Finally, FTP support has been [...]

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It’s here.
Screenshots, reviews, first impressions, and more coming soon…

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Once upon a time there was a guy named Jaker who finished high school and was ready to start college. After attending a class showcase before his first semester of college, he was pumped and ready to start his program and eventually become a programmer. Unfortunately, as time progressed, he realized that although he enjoyed [...]

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Yes, the XFIRE counter on the bottom of this blog is accurate (only counting the last week up to now).
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While in the process of getting Vista/Longhorn Beta 1, I realized that torrents don’t work well with the VoIP setup we’ve got. I started a download last night and woke up today to complaints that the “internet wasn’t working” and the phones sounded like static. I knew that torrents had screwed up internet usage before, [...]

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Russian spammer found dead
Sadly, probably a mafia hit, and not beta testing SpamBayes 2.0.

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Longhorn Beta 1. It’s been a long time coming - a distant mirage in the desert sands of time…
It really has felt like that since longhorn started out in alpha oh so many years ago.
Well the wait is finally over!
One more night of pitching your tent, watering your camel, and you will wake to find [...]

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Ladies and Gentlemen…
I bring you the internet’s latest mystery man! Who is this Sam? Why is he eating 3 hamburgers at once with a slice of cheese and a splurge of ketchup?
Join us next week when we create a new line of motivational posters based off this masterpiece… (just think of the possibilities!)

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No blog is complete without the sporadic “personal zing” (a zing against yourself). This comic just so happens to be one…

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