Category Archives: Technology

Google Doodle Celebrates Pac-Man 30th Anniversary

The Google Doodle for today is a fully functional Pac-Man game complete with 256 levels and a 2-player mode and everything. That is cool – it’s the first time they’ve done it – but the really cool thing is how the world reacted. News of the doodle raced through national media and social media sources [...]
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Meaning of Malamanteau

If enough people use a fake word does that make it real? Today, this xkcd.com comic created an explosion of traffic (and controversy) on search engines and Wikipedia. Malamanteau is a combination of two words malapropism and portmanteau. These two are real words that have real meanings and the meanings are easily available on Wikipedia. Source: Malamanteau : Meaning [...]
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AT&T Versus 15,000 Data-Crazed Velociraptors

Source: The Real War At SXSW: AT&T Versus 15,000 Data-Crazed Velociraptors | TechCrunch AT&T’s struggles to stay up last year are well-documented. CNN recently ran a piece about how AT&T hopes to avoid a similar fate this year. But actually, “struggles” is way too kind of a word. I must be psychic or something. TechCrunch ran [...]
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teamsiems.com tagline

I don’t write about myself or this site too often, but I had a small epiphany about the tagline of teamsiems.com. Like every other story I can remember this story starts off with, “I was surfing around the web and….” I happened upon the Google’s Webmaster Tools website. This site lists, among other things, a [...]
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Google Earth 5.0 Goes to the Moon

It was 40 years ago today that man landed on the moon. A lot has happened in 40 years; A LOT. We have Space Shuttles and Mars Rovers and had two space stations. Today, astronauts celebrated the moonwalk by doing a spacewalk outside of the Space Shuttle, Endeavour. We have computers that fit on one hand [...]
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Big Week for Internet, Wave, Bing and E3

It has been a big week for Internet and gaming technology. I follow Ryan Carson on Twitter and he wrote an article for thinkvitamin.com, Six Ways that Google Wave is Going to Change Your Business, Career and Life. It’s a good summary of Google Wave which Google presented at Google I/O earlier this week. Simultaneous, [...]
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Signed In Blood

So during an office discussion one thing led to another, and I threw out the thought that one day we will all have our DNA signature in the “National DNA database” and then what happens when that gets “hacked”. That would give a new meaning to “signed in blood”. The FBI and the Virginia State [...]
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From military project to the masses how the Internet was born

“This year marks the 40th anniversary of the technologies that led to the creation of the Internet and revolutionized the way we work, talk and play.” This is certainly true, and for once my timing was spot on. I wasn’t born when the Internet (capital “I”) was created. Now, I work in an industry that [...]
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Your PDA As Big Brother

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I see my career in a whole new light

From LAMP (software bundle) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Linux, referring to the operating system; Apache, the Web server; MySQL or mSQL, the database management system (or database server); PHP or others, i.e., Perl, Python, the programming languages.[1] This research was inspired by an ad for Facebook Application Developer with Egg Haus. I had never [...]
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