Wow, is blogging dead?
Posted by johnG on 24th February , 2010It appears that FB is killing blogging
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Email from Stephen Pretto Rossillo
Posted by johnG on 30th July , 2009From: SJROSS1R@aol.com [mailto:SJROSS1R@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 7:49 AM To: john@pretto.com Subject: Hello John How are you sir? My name is Stephen Pretto Rossillo. My mother was Vitalina Pretto, daughter of Giovanni Pretto and Cecilia Povolo Pretto, who came from the village of Muschi, in the town of Recoaro Terme, Vicenza. I have many [...]
How far is the Horizon??
Posted by johnG on 17th January , 2009“The square root of your height (or elevation) in feet times 1.2 equals the distance to your horizon in miles. So, how high would Sarah Palin’s house have to be inorder to see Russia?: Wasilla, Alaska, is 1130 km from Russia. How high above the Earth’s surface do you have to be to [...]
Windows 7 Build 7000 Install on older laptop
Posted by johnG on 3rd January , 2009Windows 7 Ultimate Installation log 1. Burn copy of Window 7 Build 7000 ISO on Mac “just in case.” 2. Backup data files on Dell Inspiron laptop (Window Vista Capable) 1Gig Ram 1.87G Duo 140GHDD 3. Put Windows Disc in Machine and boot from CD a. Select Upgrade Path i. “Cannot Upgrade from Window [...]
Pondering about Holiday vernacular.
Posted by johnG on 21st December , 2008Pondering about Holiday vernacular. What is all this fuss about Christmas? Well, people say “Oh, you can’t say Christmas because it is offensive to other religions…” blah, blah, blah. The politically correct crowd says “Happy Holidays.” That seems to cover it all, eh? Well I did a bit of research this morning and found this [...]
Math Enigma
Posted by johnG on 30th November , 2008Find X All these years – I never knew where to look for “x” Happy Holidays john…
Secretary of Defence (sic)
Posted by johnG on 25th November , 2008Are you kidding me! Yahoo editors what are you thinking?!!!
The first all iPhone band coming soon…
Posted by johnG on 7th November , 2008Ocarina and the other virtual instruments on the iPhone will born an all iPhone band soon! You heard it here first!!
Deja Vu
Posted by johnG on 2nd November , 2008Windows 7 I’ve been reviewing the initial features in Windows 7 via the CTP. I remember this same phenomenon in the fall of 2005 when I received my first preview of Vista. (Longhorn) So far I like this: The “Play To:” will let you play media to any device on you network. Great for [...]
Parents Computer Support
Posted by johnG on 7th October , 2008My Mother called and said “My computer keeps telling me to install “A Dopey Flasher” —Adobe Flash!!!! LOL
Testing Live Writer from Microsoft
Posted by johnG on 17th September , 2008Helloworld.com – this is a test from Windows Live writer.
“My Bad” — “You kids today”
Posted by johnG on 16th September , 2008My observation of the day is kids that say “my bad.” Most of them think this is a recent trend. Well, get educated: Mea culpa From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Mea Culpa (disambiguation). Look up mea culpa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mea culpa is a Latin phrase that translates into English as “my fault”, or “my own [...]
Intel’s X25-M solid-state drive – outperforms todays HDD by 2X!
Posted by johnG on 8th September , 2008Full story here: http://techreport.com/articles.x/15433