Category: General

The power of the 16,600,000 cars and light trucks sold in the United States in 2003 adds up to two and one-half times the total USA electrical generating capacityIBM WebFountain researchers say: 30% of the web is porn30% of the web is duplicated information50,000,000 new or changed pages every day65% of web pages are now…

Does natural evolution in an environment filled with pollution and radiation kill off the weak humans and produce a stronger Homo sapiens that can withstand these human caused problems?  What about the rest of the living creatures on this planet?We had better get ready for these questions, as the US Department of Energy has turned…

Last night I read an article in the December 2003 Smithsonian Magazine about who might be the infamous Deep Throat.  The Deep Throat Uncovered project fingers Fred Fielding, an aide to John Dean as the person who is the infamous Deep Throat of the Watergate Scandal.  I however believe that the true unnamed source to…

Fact:Each frame of the Lord of the Rings trilogy requires 12.5MB of storage.  Filmed at 24 frames per second, that amounts to more than 3 million megabytes per episode.Infoworld, 12 January 2004The first IBM-PC XT that the doctor had on his desktop in 1984 when he was the EDP Coordinator at the Radisson Mart Plaza…

Microsoft has been running ads like this one trying to get people to install additional crap onto their Windoze servers so that they can connect to servers that are using a real operating system (UNIX).  I don’t think that most administrators have never used Windoze as these ads claim; considering the 70-90% desktop market share…

Last week, on Thursday, a young girl (19) was driving her two sisters to a bridal party east of Wilmar, Minnesota when they collided head-on with a minivan while trying to pass. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune said, " Joe Mayer said his daughters were late for a bridal party in Willmar when they tried to pass another…

May you have a prosperous 2004