Category Archives: Tech

Happy Birthday to You

Posted on March 14 2003 by Mickey

    Slashdot and Tech TV remind me that today is the 10th birthday of the web browser! The NCSA Mosaic was first released ten years ago today. You can visit the NCSA Mosaic homepage here. You can download the … Continue reading →

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Catch Catch-All

Posted on March 14 2003 by Mickey

    Stuff I learned while reading Catch.com: The smell of male sweat makes women relaxed, according to this Reuters story, and has a “beneficial effect on women’s moods”. So if any women want to feel really relaxed, they should … Continue reading →

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Hail Columbia

Posted on February 5 2003 by Mickey

Sunrise as seen from Columbia(TIME Magazine; NASA-Getty Images) It’s been said we had begun to take the space shuttle for granted. This might very well be so, since I was surprised to read (in TIME magazine) that there have already … Continue reading →

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Bookmark

Posted on January 9 2003 by Mickey

    Here’s a link I need to remember: Urban Dictionary.com. At the risk of sounding cranky and showing my age, I have to keep reminding myself that all the message board gibberish and misspellings are sometimes (for good or … Continue reading →

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E-mail of the Week

Posted on November 25 2002 by Mickey

    From the makers of STAMINA®, now with secret ingredient “Horny Goat Weed”, comes the enjoyably-titled missive “Be her ‘Night in Shinning Armor’ again…”

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Animated GIFs

Posted on October 16 2002 by Mickey

    I learned something interesting today. Two things, actually. The first, chronologically, was that there are no “Saddam Hussein Dance” pages (whereas there are several Bush Dance pages), so I was forced to make my own (crude) animated GIF. … Continue reading →

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Weekend

Posted on October 12 2002 by Mickey

    If it’s Saturday, it must mean one thing. Taco Bell for dinner. No, two, two things: Taco Bell for dinner and my cable modem is out.    Almost every weekend, either Friday around 11 PM or Saturday around … Continue reading →

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Googlefight

Posted on October 10 2002 by Mickey

    Just in time to help kill a dull afternoon, we discovered Googlefight. Pair up two opposing words or terms and watch them duke it out in the websearch arena.

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Microsoft “Help” Center

Posted on September 30 2002 by Mickey

    A week or so ago I was strongly instructed to download and install the service pack patch for Windows XP. I finally found out why. Apparently there is a server flaw in the XP Help Center which, when … Continue reading →

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My Big Fat Greek Banning

Posted on September 5 2002 by Mickey

    O, Helena, the seat of democracy.    Dozens if not hundreds of sites are already spreading the news of the incredibly misguided and stupid Greek law 3037 which, in an attempt to curtail illegal gambling, puts a blanket … Continue reading →

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