* Gearhead: A puzzle, some junk, electric sheep * Backspin: Global warming, a hot time for IT * The past 7 days on Gibbsblog
Gearhead: A puzzle, some junk, electric sheep
First up this week, a question for Outlook users: In the calendar you have, by default, the Navigation Pane displayed on the left. In the menu it indicates this is a toggle that uses the shortcut ALT+F1. We’re using Outlook 2003 Service Pack 2, and when we press ALT+F1 nothing happens. We are also running a tool we absolutely couldn’t live without, Caelo’s Nelson Email Organizer Free 3.1, but we don’t think that’s the problem. Any ideas anyone?
To read Gearhead in its entirety, click here.
Backspin: Global warming, a hot time for IT
It is now official; global warming is real. When I write “official” I don’t mean that scientists have finally agreed. By official, I mean President George W. Bush has finally, and one might note grudgingly, admitted that global warming is fact.
To read Backspin in its entirety, click here.
The past 7 days on Gibbsblog
Backspin This Week: Global warming, a hot time for IT
In Backspin this week, I suggest that “It is now official; global warming is real. When I write ‘official’ I don’t mean that scientists have finally agreed. By official, I mean President George W. Bush has finally, and one might note grudgingly, admitted that global warming is fact.”
Your comments … ?
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Picasa for Linux
If you like Google’s Picasa, one of the best photo organizers ever, and you want it to run under Linux then want no longer. Unfortunately those of us who want Picasa running under OS X will still be left waiting …
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Vonage IPO Update #2
Today’s close for Vonage: $13 down $1.85 or 12.46 percent.
So, we can conclude that the market isn’t willing to drink this particular Koolaid …
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Vonage IPO Update
After I complained about Vonage’s overenthusiastic touting of its IPO I decided not to invest. Now I wish I had shorted the stock.
Vonage Holdings Corp. (Symbol: VG) dropped to $14.85, a 12.7 percent ($2.15) losss from its opening price of $17, on its debut today.
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Time Sink #12: Name My Tune
Ever get a song in your head but you have no idea what it is? You go ’round your friends and acquaintences asking “Do you know what this is? It goes like this: Ta-dum-ta-dum-dum-da! There, what is it?” Mostly the person you’re asking doesn’t know which tells you something important: You need to ask more people …
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Gearhead This Week: Taking computers under water
This week in Gearhead we discuss diving computers — computers that make diving safe by calculating how to optimize your “bottom” time and your ascent stops to avoid the bends.
We asked for you recommendations and …
