From April 10, consumers will be able to download two digital copies of selected movies — one for a computer and one for a portable device — and receive a DVD in the mail.
As an owner of many movies this is very interesting. Rather then ripping the movie myself I can just download a [...]

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Welcome to Living in the Whine Country. A new design has been up with only a few reported issues. It is still under going development, mainly with speed tweaks. But if you notice an issue, please feel free to let me know, so I can get it fixed. Also let me know if you have any story ideas you want me to cover.



Patrick Havens on March 22nd, 2006

The idea is simple. Keep your little red box from hitting the black walls or the moving blue boxes. But the boxes speed up. I’ve almost broke 40 seconds… you?
Here is a link to it in case Digg kills the other. 
This is but one of many addictive games I’ve run acrossed. [...]

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Patrick Havens on March 22nd, 2006

Taipei Nights: Marketing the Condos named “Blog”.
Marketer: “So we’ve got a great name for the new building: Shi Da Blog! Whadda you think? Pretty hip huh?”
Developer: “That sounds very hip indeed. The word blog is so hip and youthful.”
Marketer: “We can also have a website.”
Developer: “Yeah everybody has websites these days. What’ll ours be?”
Marketer: “Myblog.com. [...]

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Patrick Havens on March 17th, 2006

nowCOAST is a map based weather browser that allows to you see real-time Weather reports simply by selecting on the map. With abilities to pull up more information then a geek could want… it’s actually fun.
The map isn’t as smooth and detailed as Google maps, but the amount of information that you can get [...]

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Patrick Havens on March 16th, 2006

Speakeasy has updated its Speed Test, its now more accurate, and even a little cooler to look at too! Now v1.7.
For those who have broadband conections this is a nice way to test your connection and see if you are geting your money’s worth.
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Patrick Havens on March 13th, 2006

Well that didn’t take long. After becoming the most dugg story of all time and being delisted from all the major price comparison search engines, PriceRitePhoto is now back in business at both PriceGrabber and Yahoo! Shopping — even after Yahoo! admitted in Forbes that the retailer had hacked their feedback system.
Interesting…. that’s the [...]

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Patrick Havens on March 12th, 2006

Ever wonder how Google stays so reliable and quick? Did you know that they use a stripped down version of Red Hat? Did you know they built their own file system? This article explains it all.
“We take our files and chunk them up, then you randomly distribute the chunks across different machines, making sure each [...]

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Patrick Havens on February 22nd, 2006

I have a PC directly next to my recliner in the Living Room so that I can surf while watching. With a Wireless keyboard and mouse it works really well. Well it worked very well…. until the wireless mouse got dropped one too many times and died. So I rolled to the [...]

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Patrick Havens on February 19th, 2006

Now this isn’t networking in the technical sense… but more in different mechanisms that allow people to find me.  A while back I set up a MySpace profile, numerous clan members had and I was getting urged too also.  Originally I was hesitant, but it seems a lot of old friends use it also, so [...]

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Patrick Havens on February 16th, 2006

Danish national radio released 9 mp3s (at very high quality: 256kbps) with 9 Mozart symphonies in honour of the musician’s 250th birth anniversary. Download for free.
Suggesion since I doubt most can’t read this… click teh files that are largest for highest bitrate.
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