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A surveillance camera captured a ball of light streaking through the sky in Boise, Idaho. There were meteor sightings throughout the Pacific Northwest Tuesday morning.
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Getting the wordpress wp-cache plugin to work on GoDaddy hosting
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Looks like the war is really over now. Toshiba has said it will stop making its high definition DVDs, ending a battle with rival format Blu-ray over which would be the industry standard.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7252172.stm

BitTorrent Developers Pledge To Subvert Comcast Filters
BitTorrent developers have joined forces to propose a new protocol extension with the ability to bypass…interfering techniques used by Comcast and other ISPs
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U.S. will down failed satellite
The Pentagon’s plan to shoot down a failed satellite with a missile defense interceptor in the coming days is aimed at preventing toxic fuel from reaching earth.
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System upgrade glitch behind BlackBerry outage
a problem with a routine upgrade of an internal data-routing system appears to have caused the massive [...]

Copy Tables and Keep Their Formatting with Table2Clipboard
Here is an extension for Firefox that might be handy if you do a lot of copy/pasting of tables.
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Make your computer dual-boot Vista and XP
If you’re not ready to dive into Vista all at once, there is an answer: set up your Vista computer [...]

Why a Yahoo-News Corp. deal makes sense
This sounds much smater to me thant Microsoft+Yahoo!
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Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits
Blogger Robert Patterson explored the technology and culture behind the innovative online wildfire coverage by KPBS San Diego
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Strike Update: When Are My Favorite Shows Coming Back?
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Make links in Word, Excel etc open in Firefox (Windows XP)
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Inside Vista SP1 File Copy Improvements
Mark Russinovich’s explanation of the new file copy improvements in Vista SP1.
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