I have noticed lately that I am spending so much time with my mouse. I have to use it to open and close stuff and I I spend time scrolling through explorer to just click on a small [+] in order to open a folder menu or open a menu item and it's taking me [...]

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I have decided to run through the media center PC and start getting it to work. So far I have had to remove both the capture card and the audio card to get Vista to boot.
I have not been able to get my network access to work through SAMBA and my DLink DNS-323 (Network Attached [...]

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The computer games today suck. I am sorry but they are either this online / multi-player type the single player version is so short it's not worth playing. My reviews of the games today are:

World in Conflict - Awesome Graphics. Single Players Sucks!
BioShock - Unable to install (AVG thinks it's a virus), to top it [...]

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I had my Final meeting with TechColumbus this week. There's just something going on that I don't quite get, communication gap or something. What I find so strange about my relationship over the past year is that something is just missing.
Emily & I were talking about it Monday night and we think that maybe the [...]

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In the few months I have been working with Victorias Secret, this has to be the toughest part of the job. YouTube meets Victorias Secret.

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I will be speaking about Robotics at the upcoming CodeMash, held January 9-11 at the Kalahari Lodge in Sandusky, Ohio.
This years talk will be about robotics software and will originate from the Java source code in my book to using .Net, PHP, Ajax, and even some Ruby.
I think the most important thing is that you [...]

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Semantics refers to aspects of meaning, as expressed in language or other systems of signs.
I have been thinking of late about what language to use for some of the problems I have in programming (communicating with computers) and it seems that the reason I will pick one language over another is that it enhances to [...]

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In talking to a bunch of people about start-up business ideas, they always talk about your Business Plan.
I find this so lazy it's funny. They should have asked, where's your market research? Because a business plan without that is useless.
If I were ever going to give someone advice about a business I would first ask [...]

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Why switch? That was the first thing I thought of when I started thinking about learning Ruby. Why not Python, or just stick with Java and PHP.
I started thinking a few years back about why I decided to switch from Java to PHP for web programming. I choose then because PHP reminded me of the [...]

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I think it's time to stop the analysis. I did all I could do. I have ready all I could read. Now it seems like I just need to start working with one of the languages to see how much I like it.
Since I have already started down the path of Ruby (purchased 3 books) [...]

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