Category: Technology
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Facebook’s Voting Problem
A brief post related to Facebook’s latest vote for governance. The vote would be binding if 30% of active users, defined as those who logged onto the website in the last 30 days, voted. In this case, 60 million people needed to vote. At the end of voting, it didn’t hit the 1-million mark. This…
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Breaking News?
I got this in my e-mail twenty-four hours ago. Can anyone tell me how this is “news”, but less “breaking news”? from CNN Breaking News <BreakingNews@mail.cnn.com> to textbreakingnews@ema3lsv06.turner.com date Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:18 AM subject CNN Breaking News — Ashton Kutcher is first to reach 1 million followers in Twitter contest with CNN.…
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Windows XP is officially old
Microsoft’s support for Windows XP Home Edition has ended, only eight years after release. You can still pay for support for another five years, but nothing from Microsoft. Who actually asks Microsoft for support anyhow? For those who upgraded to Vista, you have until 2012 to jump over to Windows 7… or 8… or whatever…
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Google Apps Mail Now With Themes!
In a “Gmail already had it for awhile” update, Google Apps appears to be adding Themes support (screenshot above). I only noticed this on one of four Google Apps accoutns I have, although this particular account had a glitch which held back Gmail Labs for months after other Apps users saw it. Maybe a olive…
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Attaching a Google Document to a Google Calendar Item?
Here’s something I noticed for the first time today. Notice the “Add a Google document” link. When you click on it, this appears: It lists all of your Google documents. I do not see this on my Google Account, but only on my Google Apps accounts (both Education Edition and Standard Edition).
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should this guy be held responsible?
A horrible accident occurred today in Phoenix, AZ. CNN reports that two news helicopters crashed while covering a police chase. Four people, a pilot and a photographer from each news station, were killed in the accident. No one on the ground was killed. The CNN story quotes a Phoenix official stating that the suspect in…