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September 2008

58 posts

Godaddy Promo Codes and Coupon List for 2008

GoDaddy has been a sponsor of my Podcast for over three years. I want to thank them for their continued support of the show. You can help support me and the show by sharing my promo codes with your friends and family. Check out our Great GoDaddy Promotion Codes. I hope that you will support our sponsor GoDaddy.com by sharing

Did dinosaurs die from malaria?

Science daily has an article discussing a new book, "What Bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease and Death in the Cretaceous," by George and Roberta Poinar. In it they discuss the effect that insect born disease and parasites possibly had on the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. Modern technigues have shown that diseases like malaria existed during the Cretaceous and were

How Many Times Have I Given My Password?

OK. Keep in mind I have many different passwords. You can't use my MySpace password with my Bank account. You can't use my Paypal password with my email. But I do have a couple general passwords that I use to sign up for websites. As I was working today I realized - I signed up for 5 different new services

Comcast Video Download Service Introduced

Let’s see your a Comcast executive and you are looking at ways to guarantee success of a new video download service. So the executive comes up with a plan.

Google Chrome Browser EULA Shocking

Update: Google has updated the EULA and say the license terms were a mistake! You are now safe to use the Browser without fear of Google profiting from your work.

Free Broadband, Part 4,892

Another company is proposing to offer free broadband everywhere. M2Z is gathering venture capital funding and preparing to bid on next year's auction of the advanced wireless services-3 spectrum. I wish them luck. Their business model, based on getting the spectrum in the first place, indicates deployment by late 2009, with ultimately 95% of the country covered by their ad-supported,

Google Chrome – Is it Worth it?

Well, Google went and did it: They put out a browser. The new Chrome Browser is in Beta and it looks great for now. Do we really need another browser in the war? For those who don't know: There are 4 main browsers - IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera. You then have a bunch of others that are just as

Why I Don’t Trust Wikipedia

This is not a political post; I could have easily used any other Wiki example to make my point. It has been revealed that in the 24 hours preceding the announcement of Sarah Palin as the Vice Presidential candidate for the Republican party, an intentionally deceptive "Young Trigg" amended the Wikipedia entry pertaining to her. A rather unremarkable entry turned

Your first initial can earn you more spam

I guess its my own fault for being called Matthew, but my email address (almost all of them) start with a letter that means I get more spam than those with other starting letters. Those letters are "A", "M", "S", "R" and "P". Email addresses that start with these letters on average have 40% of their incoming messages being spam.

GNC-2008-09-02 #404 Back in Hawaii

Back in Hawaii and a lot to get caught up on. Updates across the board. You should find my Denver layover story pretty funny. Please Support my Show Sponsors!: [Save 10% off on any order at GoDaddy.com!] Use Code Todd [Try GoToMeeting free for 30 days at GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts. No credit card needed.] Twitter Me http://www.twitter.com/geeknews My Facebook Profile FriendFeed GNC

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