I recently got my hands on an HP 311 Mini netbook with the AWESOME NVidia Ion graphics chipset.  I made sure to outfit it with three gigs of ram instead of the standard one gig and I've never been more satisfied with an HP before.  Aside from being able to play games for ten hours on a single charge, I've found it to be responsive with Windows 7 and all my other applications including Eclipse, Xbox Media Center and my various other compilers and media tools.

The recent debate over whether Apple should enable Flash on its devices is quickly spreading to the broader market of touch-screen devices.  People are taking sides and choosing their battles.  While I'm somewhat split on the issue, I find some of the arguments to be narrow minded.

With Sarah Palin's recent appearance at a Tea Party rally, the media has once again looked into the grassroots movement and is trying like crazy to pin down exactly what it's trying to achieve.  Claims echo on both sides of the political spectrum about the movement's true intent. The movement as a whole has mixed opinions about its own motives other than the fact that they're pissed off a the government.

I'm with Coco too!  And to prove it I'm uploading a Windows 7 theme pack (admittedly a simple one) to show my  support!

HOWEVER, this game is more than just its compelling single player.  Its multiplayer is one of its big selling points and this is where they screwed up big time.

...This would result in two possibilities.  One possibility would be that Google's site gets blamed for the slowdown and thus Google possibly loses a user of their search engine.  The other is that IE takes the blame for something inserted by Google and thus gains a user of its Chrome browser...

 Firefox has started to drag its feet as of late.  A buggy interface, slower than normal browsing, leaky memory, and abrupt failures have become the rule rather than the exception it seems...Chrome was a bit buggy at first but seems to have resolved that issue and is all over 7's new taskbar; IE8 is still somewhat harder to work with but doesn't crash anymore and is faster than previous IE's.  Firefox has dropped the ball, possibly for the last time...

A recent study coming out of MIT may have just put into serious question the findings of several climate models with observed data.  This not only brings into question the models but also a longstanding assumption about carbon's effect on the atmosphere.

Imagine you are in a room with a person loudly yelling out their credit card numbers, random quips about their friends and family, their preferences on pornographic material, and directions to the restaurant they're going to go to later that night.  Now imagine a room full of these people and a person very meticulously writing down everything that was said.  If you join a public wifi hotspot you're effectively doing this (maybe without the porn) and someone can and very easily write down everything you're doing.