Exploring What's Outside The Box
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With the 3 Day Novel Writing Contest now weeks behind me, I’ve been using the last couple of weeks to diligently prepare for Nanowrimo, National Novel Writing Month. Status so far: I’m working on my first “outline draft” and I’ve finished part one of three of the story so far. So, so far so good. […]
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Digital distribution of software and games in particular has grown quite a bit in the last couple of years. I’ve checked out some of these services myself, such as Steam by Valve and Direct2Drive. Being a Ubuntu user for much of the time these days, PC gaming hasn’t been much of a focus for me […]
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Robert Langdon, famous from the adventures of “The DaVinci Code” and “Angels & Demons” one night finds himself on the way to Washington D.C., summoned by his close friend and mentor for a favor. He arrives in D.C. only to find that his friend had actually been kidnapped and that he must solve a mystery […]
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Being an avid reader of everything from fiction to religion to science, I love books. I love reading. With fiction, it’s a way to escape reality and dive into another world somewhere else, where things may be completely different. Religion teaches me a lot about “why” while science tells me a lot about the “how.” […]
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For decades, applications and their use have been limited to computers and their specific operating systems. We as users have been used to going about our computing needs using a variety of applications. For word processing, MS Word has been the main contender. For spreadsheets, accounting, tables, graphs and all kinds of other calculating needs, […]
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One time, a few years ago, I stumbled upon an interesting experience: write a novel in a month. The event, appropriately named National Novel Writing Month, was very interesting and I decided to participate. The problem was that it was almost over by the time I had found it. I had to wait for year […]
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With the recent release of the PS3 Slim and the removal of the ability to load other operating systems onto it, my thoughts went to my original release PS3 that I have Ubuntu installed on. I figured that if I have the ability that many new PS3 owners don’t have, I may as well find […]
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