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Sites that I found interesting for October 29th 2009 through November 2nd 2009:

• Recovering from Twitter Phishing – Nice little how-to. via @chelpixie on Twitter.
• Enough, Microsoft. No One Is Endorsing Piracy. Obviously. – Hey, Microsoft. Duh.
• DIY Windows Home Server Build – JukeBox MkII – Nice article from Automated Home. via @isdixon on Twitter

Sites that I found interesting for October 9th 2009

• Microsoft adds free root certificate authority to Windows – Out-of-the-box in Windows 7 free digital certificates issued by StartCom will be inherently trusted by the operating system and its applications.
• Windows Home Server Add-ins: Lights-Out, WebGuide, and Whiist – Handy add-ins for Windows Home Server.
• How To Backup Your WordPress Blog In Three Easy Steps – Helpful article for all WordPressers out there. Via @davedelaney on Twitter.

Sites that I found interesting for June 14th 2009 through June 15th 2009:

• A New Type of Cloud? – undulus asperatus, Latin for "turbulent undulation."
• No Experts Exchange for Greasemonkey – @kevinthompson on Twitter wrote this handy script for Greasemonkey on Firefox to block Google search results that point to Experts-Exchange. You would know if you need this script, trust me.
• Build a DIY Windows Home Server – via @isdixon on twitter.

Sites that I found interesting for April 9th 2009 through April 15th 2009:

• Evernote + Twitter = Instant Memories – Now you can send your tweets directly into Evernote.
• MoWeS Portable – CH Software – MoWeS stands for the three letter abbreviation Modular Webserver System and makes it possible, to run a webserver based on Apache, MySQL and PHP from an USB Stick or any other writable media (harddrive, flash cards etc.) without installation under Windows (98 to Vista).
• 10 Recent Scientifically Solved Mysteries – Epidaurus Theater Acoustics, Crystal Skulls, New England’s Dark Day, Face on Mars, The Barreleye Fish, Solving Checkers, The Unknown Titanic Child, Ancient Tablet Deciphered, Sharks Virgin Birth, Flight of the Bumblebee

Sites that I found interesting for February 11th 2009 through February 17th 2009:

• 421 Analog TV Stations Go Dark Tonight – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a list of 421 television stations that said they will terminate their analog broadcasts at midnight tonight.
• Microsoft Recommends Free "Search Connectors" for Windows 7 – Connectors are a combination of the OpenSearch Description File generator (aka the “Search Connector” in Windows 7) and federated search web services.
• Crashing SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Advisor error – Thankful for the Internets! SQL Server 2005 upgrade adviser is too stupid to figure out that you have other versions of .NET installed. Once I uninstalled all but .NET 2.0 from my Windows 2003 R2 server I was able to get it to run.

Sites that I found interesting for October 6th 2008 through October 8th 2008:

• AMD to Split Into Two Operations – Advanced Micro Devices said Tuesday that it would split into two companies — one focused on designing microprocessors and the other on the costly business of manufacturing them — in a drastic effort to maintain its position as the only real rival to Intel.
• Virtual fence could modernize the Old West – Dean Anderson, an animal science researcher with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is working on a system that will allow cowboys to herd their cattle remotely by singing commands and whispering into Bessie's ears via radio and tracking her movements by satellite and computer.
• Iron Man release brings down BD-Live service – Shortly after the release of Iron Man on Blu-ray on October 1, people started complaining of defective discs; the problem turned out to be that all the Blu-ray players downloading additional content brought down Paramount's BD-Live servers, causing delays while loading the disc.
  Could extrapolate to be -1 for cloud computing.