A sure sign that a company is on its way out is when it starts needlessly defeaturing its products to create artificial market segments rather than innovating new features to add value. Windows 7 Starter is a good example of this sad phenomena. Microsoft originally planned to impose a three application limit to Windows 7 […]
Mint Linux has one of the best main menus of any Linux distribution. Microsoft Vista and Windows 7 both have Start menus that appear to have been influenced by MintMenu, the package name for the Mint main menu. MintMenu itself is a fork of Slab, the SUSE main menu for Gnome. Mint is based upon […]
A most beloved aunt passed away today. The daughter of Italian immigrants, she worked as a bookkeeper for 3 generations of owners at the local car dealership. She has two daughters, 3 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband, Eugene Anderson. This pray summarizes her beauty. Dear Lord, Let […]
At least 16 people perished during extraordinary flash floods at the Albert Pike Recreational Area campgrounds about 25 miles from our home. Television station KTHV reported that the Little Missouri River rapidly rose from 3 feet to 23 feet from about 1AM to 5AM this morning. We frequently visit Albert Pike because it is beautiful, […]
Dear Kathy, Thanks for putting up with my shenanigans for fifteen years and keeping your faith in me. And thank you for being such a wonderful mother to our five beautiful children. Happy 15th Anniversary, Sweetheart! I hope I’ve brought you at least a small fraction of the happiness that you have given me. I […]
I was interviewed recently by EEMBC, the embedded computing industry’s foremost benchmarking consortium. You can read that interview here.
Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has warned the royal family to flee the country. Read about it here.
Russian experts do not believe that North Korea was involved with the sinking of the South Korean warship, Cheonan, which sunk on March 26. The defense experts arrived in South Korea last week to analyze the wreckage.
Remarkable. Read about her here.
A 26-foot statue of Anubis, the half human, half jackal Egyptian god, is on display at the Denver airport. He is the god of death and embalming. The statue is to be on display through the summer. The Denver airport is known for it’s peculiar and disturbing art. This new installation will rival the blue […]
There are 350 millions shares of BP, of which around 40% are owned by financial institutions. Goldman Sachs sold 4.7 of it’s approximate 10.7 million shares on March 31st.
Political turmoil sees the resignation of prime ministers in Nepal, Germany and Japan. Nepalese prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal was to step down on May 29, one day after parliament’s term expired. He will not step down immediately. German President Horst Koehler abruptly resigned May 30 allegedly under pressure from opposition parties to explain his […]
The number of bank failures rises to 78 so far this year as 3 banks in Florida, 1 in Nevada, and 1 in California shut down on Friday, May 28. The number of banks expected to fail this year is more than 140, the number of failed banks in 2009.
The Israel Navy opened fire on an unarmed, six-ship aid flotilla headed for Gaza. The flotilla is carrying 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid and supplies to the Gaza strip. Israel and Egypt have been enforcing a blockade of the seaside area for nearly three years, provoking widespread criticism for the ensuing humanitarian crisis. Various reports put the […]
There are a series of photos circulating email groups these days. They source from this excellent website on the illegal alien problem in Arizona. Ironically, this website looks to have not been updated for the past two years. Hmm, think the problem just “went away”. Heading north to Washington state we find: Illegal alien rapist […]
France and Belgium governments already have bans in motion to restrict Muslim women’s attire. Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany have discussions in their own countries to follow suit. The burqa and the niqab are muslim coverings for women. from sdnn.com Women wearing niqabs. The moves in France and Belgium are estimated to affect 1900 women […]
The sun produced a magnetic filament that burst Monday, shooting a “billion-ton” coronal mass ejection (CME) racing towards our planet, according to a post on spaceweather.com. NOAA projects a 35% chance of geomagnetic activity on May 27th when the CME is expected to hammer Earth’s magnetic field. In the animated image below, the Solar and […]
In lieu of the today’s stock market dive and reports of heightened tensions between North and South Korea, this May 1st article on North Korea’s involvement in the BP oil spill becomes an extremely interesting read.
The following video is a compilation of various footage suggesting that a bomb was detonated in the World Trade Center just seconds before the first plane impact. In addition to numerous eyewitness accounts, there is an audio record by Ginny Carr at the 6:20 mark that reveals a loud noise about nine seconds before a […]
Van will appear on Rob Roselli’s program at 8:pm EST tonight, Tuesday, May 18. This show is available through streaming audio at Geo Media Network. Click on the Listen/Archive button to access the stream. Rob has extensively studied Rosicurcians and has a lot of information to share.
England’s government database for children’s aged five and up has been around since 2002. The government is ramping up pressure on teachers to log “hate” bullying. Hate bullying as defined by the state has grown from racist taunts in 2002 to include disability-related and homophobic taunts in 2007. Incidents are to be recorded so that […]
Congressional investigators will audit the Fed’s use of emergency lending authority since December 2007. The Fed will need to disclose which banks received help. Here is a list of all banks which have failed since October 1, 2000. It will be interesting to see how this information compares to the Feds listed of bailed out […]
WorldNetDaily reports “Two private investigators working independently are asking why President Obama is using a Social Security number set aside for applicants in Connecticut while there is no record he ever had a mailing address in the state.”
Wow! Thanks to CJ and Tallulah for a fascinating conversation Thursday about the UN, Barak Obama, the Georgia Guidestones, Kenya and Maurice Strong. CJ and Tallulah are radio hosts for Patriot’s Heart Network. So how are the UN, Obama, the Guidestones, Maurice Stong and Kenya connected? Glen Beck’s call to gather information about Maurice Strong […]
CNN published an article, “Undocumented student’s arrest called part of ‘civil rights disaster‘” today blatantly attempting to create a heroine out of an illegal immigrant. CNN had a large picture on the top of the front page linking to this article. Here’s an excerpt: Staring at the throngs of media representatives who came out to […]