Happy Holidays!!

The end of the semester is upon us and finals are all but complete. Now it's off to shopping, eating too much, and preparing for the New Year. My wish for all my friends, contacts, school and classmates, professors, and those acquaintances I made in the open lab I send my heartfelt holiday greetings! Have a wonderful holiday, a great break from the stresses of classes, and enjoy life! See most of you next semester. I am not sure where this blog will go from here, it's too soon to tell.

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Mobile Blogging!

Mobile blogging! Now I can blog straight from my phone. I think this is cool and will any random ideas to be sent there for future use.

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Information overload?

I was searching earlier for an article discussing the price of hard drives going up due to flooding in Thailand. I believe it was from TechRepublic. The main point was because demand is still there for hard drives that the price will go up because;

• The manufacturers do not have the numbers to meet the demand
• It only makes business sense to raise the prices until the supply increases (thus also providing additional profit)

Comments by readers of the article shared speculation that SSD (Solid State Drives) will now become more favorable due to the price increase. Further speculation was that the prices may even go down (I'm not so sure about that one).

The point I'm trying to make is that even though I remember the content I cannot find this article. I don't know if it was from Twitter, Facebook, or from one of my email accounts. Are we becoming saturated with so much information from the wonderful technology we have available to us that we will start to lose some of this information? Accidental deletions (I've done that), reading and forgetting where it originally came from, or just so much at one time that we miss a lot.

A final comment on this...when I was working, I would return from a weeks vacation and find 500+ emails in my in box. Most I skimmed through and deleted (those that did not pertain to me), some I would read, others I would file in the correct spots and mark as read.

What do you think about this? Do you have the same sort of information overload? Any thoughts on what is a good way to control it?

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Microsoft Office 2007 for Students - Cheap!

Microsoft is running an offer especially for college students called The Ultimate Steal. For a limited time, students can obtain a copy of Microsoft 2007 Ultimate Edition for only $59.95. To qualify for this offer, you must be enrolled at a US educational institution and have a valid e-mail address that ends in the edu domain. Considering this package is available at retail for around $500, this is a fantastic deal for students. So check it out and save some $$$ today!

Even though you can download the software from the Web site, you should also consider purchasing (for an additional fee) the software on DVD. This will make reinstalling the software much easier in the future in case you have a problem (such as your hard drive fails).

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Welcome to the first blog!

As a note, I had tried out several of the templates (okay, just one), but the tech type of templates seem too busy for my taste. When I have time I may generate my own template. The first template I chose had an image but the type was right on top of that image. Changing the color of the text didn't help much as some was lost in various parts of the image. Garish colors were not an option (although they did show up very well). I wanted to explain this because the template I am using is rather simple. I will work at making it better.

Thanks for stopping by!

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