Category: General
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Free Annual Credit Report
The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act requires the big 3 credit reporting bureaus to provide consumers with 1 free copy of their credit report each year. The idea is to give people a chance to correct mistaken information and protect against identity theft. It’s a phased roll-out with the Western region of the US…
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First Impression
There is a ton of really interesting information in Malcolm Gladwell’s article, The New-Boy Network – What do job interviews really tell us?. It starts a bit slow, but keep reading as it quickly gets to some great stuff. Choice bit: The observers, presented with a ten-second silent video clip, had no difficulty rating the…
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How to Learn a Language
Just setting an anchor for this Kuro5shin story about How to Learn a Language
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Shocked and Shocked Again
According to the NYT’s article, What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers’ Habits: By its own count, Wal-Mart has 460 terabytes of data stored on Teradata mainframes, made by NCR, at its Bentonville headquarters. To put that in perspective, the Internet has less than half as much data, according to experts. I am shocked to learn that…
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So Let It Be Written
Well, I guess a country gets the government it deserves. It’s a shame though because I for one deserve much better. I hope you enjoy the impending interest rate hikes and hyper inflation America. Not that the other guy would have done much more to stop it, but still, better to inch ever so slowly…
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Hard Drives the New DVD?
Mark Cuban has some interesting thoughts on using hard drives to deliver content to consumers. On the one hand, I like a lot of what he’s saying. I’d very much like to move my 200+ DVDs onto a single media server. On the other hand, if you go down that road, you lose some of…
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Who’s Better At Responding to Terror Threats?
I don’t get very political here very often, but this coming election seems pretty important to me, so I felt I needed to rant a little about national security. Most of the people I’ve spoken with recently who are supporting Bush for a second term feel he would be better at responding to terror. I’m…
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Mac Special Key Combinations
Wow, I had no idea that there were so many Macintosh Key Sequences.