Well, we’ve made it another year.  So long 2009, bring on 2010.  As we get set to close out this year, I want to wish everyone good health and good fortune for this upcoming year.  Please be careful if you plan to celebrate with friends tonight, no matter where you live.

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This year for the holidays, my wife got me one large present instead of a bunch of little presents. She got me a Dynex 22″ flatscreen TV with a built in DVD player for the bedroom. Don’t ask me why, but I have an easier time falling asleep when there’s a DVD playing in the background. [...]

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This is a cautionary tale that happened to my wife.  I have to pass this along so everyone can be prepared. 
My wife was coming home from work one day when she saw a car in the ditch along side the road. She pulled off and found an older lady that had spun her car and skidded into the ditch. The older lady did have a cell phone and had called someone [...]

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Even though this is a little late, I do hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday weekend. My wife and I spent the day with her side of the family, and both my wife’s mom and aunt got charging stations for their iPhone. And what made it funnier was that it was a present [...]

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This is another story from Cnet, and it concerns 15 websites that shutdown during the year.  As you might expect, there are a lot of sub-site from Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google, but there was one that was from a smaller company called Splashcast that was initially a way for people to share, legally, multiple media [...]

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This list comes from Cnet.com and is the top 10 downloads from the past decade.

ICQ
Winamp
Napster
Firefox
WinZip
iTunes
Ad-aware
Skype
RealPlayer
Adobe Acrobsat Reader

While most of these are choices that I would not argue with, I do have to take issue with Napster being #3.  Considering the backlash from the music community and the subsequent lawsuits, Napster is a bit of a black [...]

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Keeping with the top 10 theme, here’s the top 10 gadgets that were introduced during this decade according to ABC news.

the iPod
GPS devices
Blackberry
digital cameras
Tivo/DVR
Nintendo Wii
flash drives
the iPhone
eBook readers
Netbooks

Now, the story didn’t put numbers next to the gadgets, so I listed them in the order they were listed in the story and added the numbers myself.  [...]

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So what is the biggest news story in the realm of science for this past decade?  CosmicLog listed some highs and lows in the realm of science and I’m curious if anyone has na opinion on which story is the biggest.

The human genome decoded – 2001 – this is helping with the study of disease [...]

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I was doing some more looking and found this webcam for $99.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This camera captures images and broadcasts them in high definition.  So, if you want to use Skype in high definition, this is probably right up your alley, but if you’re looking for technology that will help you with live video streaming services for large events, you [...]

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This is what I need. Some genius compiled a list of tech items that would make great Christmas gifts. And the best part? Each item is under $200. Now, I don’t know about you, but that makes a world of difference for me. And the one thing I’m looking at [...]

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