Apple has been working over their iPod product line, just in time for Christmas. From the iPod Shuffle, using flash memory to provide 512MB or 1GB of storage for your music, to the iPod Nano, available in black or white and 2GB or 4GB models with flash memory, to the showpiece – the new iPod.The [...]
Dream Toy of the Month – iPod Nano
November 26, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Getting a New Computer For Christmas?
November 19, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Computers are not toasters. They need preparation and installation of anti-virus programs, a firewall program, and an anti-spyware program — before you ever connect to the Internet! Prepare ahead of time. Be ready for your own new computer. Be ready to help a friend set up their first computer for safe Internet use. I use [...]
Upcoming DVDs, science fiction plus one
November 15, 2005 By Leave a Comment
The temptation is there. I think I’ll have to get the Mr. & Mrs. Smith DVD, of course, the Serenity DVD. The other science fiction / fantasy ones will have to go on the “maybe someday” list. Here’s the schedule of the coming releases that interest me: November 29, 2005 Mr. & Mrs. Smith December 6, [...]
Dream Toy of the Month – for November 2005
November 12, 2005 By Leave a Comment
As I was wondering what the Dream Toy for November should be, I remembered what I looked forward to at the beginning of November. Of course, that was the release of the Star Wars Episode III “Revenge of the Sith” DVDs. As much as I wanted the WideScreen edition on the November 1st release date, [...]
It’s Indian Summer in Baton Rouge
November 5, 2005 By Leave a Comment
The weather has been absolutely gorgeous the last few days. The last couple weeks, we dipped to highs in the 50′s to low 60′s and lows in the low 40′s each morning. The warmup each day was nice, no clouds, sunny and cool. No air conditioning. No heating. Just nice crisp weather. Indian Summer has [...]
Google Adds Two New Referral Programs
November 4, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Today, Google added the long-awaited Adsense referral program for web site publishers to refer other web site publishers to Google’s Adsense program — and get a referral fee as a result. After the new Adsense affiliate earns $100 (and is, then, at the level for his first payment!), the new Adsense affiliate gets paid his [...]
They’re not all bad…
November 3, 2005 By Leave a Comment
The rotten eggs exist. We all know it and we hope we never meet them. Unfortunately, now, some of the rotten eggs of society are showing up with a new title — “hurricane refugee.” In an article on Tuesday, November 1st, Associated Press (AP) reported that a New Orleans evacuee was killed in Houston. The [...]
Star Wars Dark Chocolate M&M’s – available again
November 1, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Back in June, I wrote the makers of M&M’s to see where I could find more Dark Chocolate M&M’s. Here’s their response, excluding the info on where to find them in Baton Rouge (They’re mine, you hear, ALL MINE!): Masterfoods USA is excited about our promotional partnership with Lucasfilm and STAR WARS as the exclusive [...]
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November 1, 2005 By Leave a Comment
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