It seems Microsoft is still struggling maintaining a timeline for the release of Windows Vista.  When will it ever be available?

Microsoft extends XP Home support to '08 - Windows - www.itnews.com.au

You have gotta check this out! It is hilarious!

Kevin Sez, an engineer from Texas Tech U. shows how to make spirals, bridges and arches out of stacked pennies. This is amazing stuff. Tons of pictures

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Google screws another site over!

Patrick Stuart.com » How Google Adsense Sucks…

It is definately time for a stronger response to these bully tactics being used by google. Unfortunately, the only way to do that is for a large enough site to be dropped for fradulant click throughs. A site the size of digg or sourceforge. I am not advocating any fraudulant clicking on google ads on either of these sites; merely speculati... [More]

I am really getting frustrated with Symantec.  Over the last 12 months I have had nothing but bad experiences with Symantec.  They have provided poor service to me as both a commercial customer.  At the office we use have purchased and license for Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition.  I have experience poor support.  Speaking with technical support on multiple occasions about the same issue without satisfactory resolution.  I have experienced similar disappointment when dealing with my personal symantec product.

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Recently I have been using Cellar Tracker, which is an online wine inventory tool.  Overall, I am very pleased with this tool.  One of the best things about this tool is that it is free.  They do however, prominately request donations.  That seems fair though for a rather useful and well written tool.

Some things do not seem to be yet implemented (or at least not entirely) community fetures (public sharing of cellar data), integration into E-Robert Parker and more.  It does however, currently include some level of barcode support; though I have not used that yet.

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Google Maps is now providing high reselution images. Maps are getting so amazing. The imagery seems current in many if not all major metro areas. In Minneapolis, building are easily identifiable. The site performance does not seem to have been effected. I don't know how google manages to keep doing things like this, but I am definately a fan.

This is pretty neat. It is hard to watch with the PSP bouncing around a little. Though it is a neat thing to see, who cares! Who has that kind of time? What does it get you? It is still a terrible interface for any computer operating system.

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