With each passing week we inch closer to the time for our daughters arrival. In preparation of that, we decided to spend some time sprucing up our third bedroom to be her nursery. The first course of action was changing the color of the walls. When we got our house built almost 2 years ago [...]
Archive for November, 2006
Nov 24 2006
Fraudulent Charges
I’m the kind of person that would rather charge my purchases on plastic and deal with the bills at the end of the month than carry around a large wad of cash. I’m also the kind of person that pays my bill in it’s entirety each month. Imagine my surprise when my beloved Discover card [...]
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Nov 21 2006
Destructive Gaming
The Next-gen consoles are all trying to make their game controllers better than the previous generation. The XBOX 360 only added wireless capability, the Sony PS3 SIXAXIS controller added wireless capability with motion sensing, and the Nintendo Wii employs the most revolutionary controller. The Wii allows users to use its Wiimote to control the action [...]
Nov 15 2006
Bush a Threat
A majority of people in three countries with close ties to the U.S. — Britain, Canada and Mexico — consider President George W. Bush a threat to world peace, ranking the U.S. president right up there with the leaders of two countries he has labeled part of the “axis of evil” — North Korea’s Kim [...]
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Nov 12 2006
Kiwi
Very impressive for a homemade movie, has a wonderful Pixar short-film feel to it.
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Nov 10 2006
PC Gamers Downfall
I’ve been playing PC games since my teenage years starting in the early 90s. Back in the day, the variety of games that were available catered to every players genre. With each year, there was a general progression towards specific genres that were really popular. Today, the FPS and RPG genres have taken the forefront [...]
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Nov 08 2006
Twins Apart
“We were joking when I was pregnant about what if one baby looked like me and one looked like Michael? We joked about one light one, one dark one, so it was amazing when it actually happened.” # Fraternal twins usually share many similarities, even if less so than identical twins, but this sort of [...]
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Nov 06 2006
Gears of War
Cliffy B: I feel that Gears is unique enough in its own right and stands on its own as a new universe with a play style that is a true evolution of the shooting genre. We have the thrills of a shooter with the intelligence of a tactical game. All of the titles that you [...]
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Nov 01 2006
Seriously PWNED
Phising is a common scheme used primarily through email. You’ve all gotten the emails from Paypal, Ebay, and various banks claiming that your account was compromised and you have to follow a link to “verify” your information. In the IM world, it is possible to use a combination of phising and social engineering to get [...]
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