Saturday, February 17, 2007

Andrew Victim Gets Power After 15 Years

Exclusive: Andrew Victim Gets Power After 15 Years Cutler Bay Woman Lived In the Dark Since Hurricane Andrew Shoddy Repairs Prevented Her From Connecting Electricity Volunteers Helped End 15 Years Of Cold Showers.


(CBS4) CUTLER BAY An elderly woman who had been living without power in her home due to hurricane damage was finally seeing the light Friday night, when power to her home was restored. What makes her story amazing is that the hurricane which put her in the dark was Andrew, almost 15 years ago, and she's been living without power to her house since August 24, 1992.
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Monday, February 12, 2007

Alpha Geek: Copy DVDs to your iPod - Lifehacker

"So Apple wants you to pony up $14.99 for Pixar's Cars when you already own the DVD? Nuh-uh. Don't think so. Seems like you should be able to copy that DVD right to your iPod.

You can, provided you have the right tools and some time to kill. With free software and this tutorial, you can copy almost any DVD in your library to your iPod for on-the-go viewing. Let's get ripping."

by Rick Broida
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Friday, February 09, 2007

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Sunday, February 04, 2007

Computer Stupidities: Stupid Salesmen

"I was in the Mac section of a huge chain computer store when a salesperson mosied over from the PC section to help an older couple. I suppose the Apple salesperson was at lunch or something.

* Salesman: 'Can I help you?'
* Customer: 'Yes, we were looking at buying a new computer.'
* Salesman: 'Well, we have plenty to choose from.'
* Customer: 'We were looking at these.'
* Salesman: 'Oh oh, well, these aren't computers. These are Macintoshes.'
* Customer: 'They act like computers.'
* Salesman: 'You can't do anything on a Mac. No Internet email, and it doesn't even have a Pentium in it.'
* Customer: 'These get Internet.'
* Salesman: 'That is not real Internet. That's mac.com.'
* Customer: 'Oh I see, but isn't this Yahoo?'
* Salesman: 'No no, these are not computers. Now, if you'll follow me, I'll show you some nice Sony laptops that have Bluetooth. That means you can have wireless Internet anywhere in the world. It works on satellite technology.'

Later, when the salesperson went to look something up, I approached them, took them back over to the Mac section, and sold them an iMac and an iPod mini.

Two days later, I got a call from the store and was "
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