Category: Blog
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Internet Plumber
A friend dropped of his Windows XP laptop with a virus on it. Been trying to get him back up an running all week. Looks like a clean re-install is the only solution. Somedays, I feel like such a plumber! Funny that I don’t get paid half as well as one though. (Thanks to Stuart001UK…
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New Revolutionary UK Folding Plug: GENIUS!
Sure they drive on the wrong side of the road, drink warm beer and have designed their electrical system to boil a kettle in the short space of an ITV commercial break, but every once in a while some Brits create some simply outstanding simple and gorgeous products. Think about the Lotus Elise, Jamie Oliver’s…
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J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Canadian Wireless Customer Satisfaction Study
J.D. Power and Associates released their 2009 Canadian Wireless Customer Satisfaction Study today, and I found the results quite interesting.
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7 Minutes with Windows 7
We do a lot of Windows bashing here at 2FatDads.com and in all fairness we usually have been given many good reasons to be so negative about the aging and flailing Microsoft OS. We’ll been using it since the Windows 3 days and most of us are very knowledge at making it do our will.…
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Is Google Evil? Part 3
Part 1 and part 2 of this ongoing series looked at visual clues that Google didn’t really believe in their mantra of “Do no evil.” In this installment I’m going to investigate some operational evilness on Google’s part. I’m a big, big, really big, fan of Google’s products and services. But what would you call…
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Federal Liberals still begging for hand-outs without doing anything to deserve them
I got another letter from the Federal Liberal Party of Canada today, extolling the virtues for their glorious leader and how much better they would be at running the country than the current crop of scoundrels (my words). The bottom of the letter includes a little form where you can contribute to their Victory fund.…
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Snow Leopard’s coming (oh wait, it’s here!)
The latest installment of Apple’s big cat OS is on its way (literally, at the time of starting this post it was leaving the sorting hub and on its way to a delivery truck). At first I was skeptical about buying a (.0) OS release, but rumors are rampant that 10.6.1 is in the pipeline…
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The Cataclysm is coming…
So they want me to blog more. ‘Pick any topic, as long as you blog’ they say. ‘Talk about WoW, there might be a few people out there that are interesting in whatever you have to say’. Fine, consider it done, this I can do! Although I have been WoWing (short for playing World of Warcraft…
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The new OS is in the wild – SL 64-bit on the prowl!
Since the release announcement in August I’ve been itching to get my hands on the new 64-bit version of my favourite operating system. Until now I’ve running a clunking old 32-bit OS that was getting kind of tired; the allure of 64-bit was really quite tempting.