Every day my RSS numbers fluctuate plus or minus 10 readers every single day. On the weekends the numbers generally go down a lot but during the week it’s really anyones guess as to what the number will be. In general my number of readers is an upward trend but day to day it’s extremely hilly. The real question is, why are the changes in RSS numbers so drastic? Hopefully this article will explain it a little better.
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Starting at approximately 4am EST on December 1st, The Computer Zone was offline. This outage was due to a failed storage segment, and then a failed rollback attempt. MediaTemple has been feverishly working on the problem and they’ve finally resolved it. I’d like to thank everyone over at MT for working so hard getting my site (and many others) back up in a quick and timely manner.
The week long series of “Technology in our Lives” is coming to an end soon. This is the second last post and I’m already kind of sad it’s coming to an end. Today I’m looking at how technology has changed the way we entertain ourselves.In many ways, we still use the same form of entertainment as we used to. We still listen to the radio, watch TV programs, go to sporting events and enjoy other activities. Technology has changed a few of the forms of entertainment (including adding new ways). Surfing the web is a fairly new way to entertain ourselves, long distance travel is more readily accessible and even old things have been improved (TV, radio, video quality).
Lets look a little more deeply into a few of these things to see how technology has changed them.
Read the original article at “Technology in our Lives #6: Human Entertainment“
We’re halfway through the “Technology in Our Lives” series. So far I’ve talked about: how information, and information retrieval has changed, how technology has increased and decreased our quality of life and finally how technology has changed the way we get around. Todays post is looking at pictures of old technology versus new technology.
Computers
Computers have certainly changed over the years. In the first picture you can see a computer that takes up the entire wall. This computer had a processing power that was less than your average everyday calculator. The second computer is Apple’s Power Mac. This thing is a thousand times more powerful than the old computer, takes up a lot less space and looks a lot cooler. With the way computers are heading you’ll eventually be able to get the same processing power as the power mac on the head of a pin (or maybe not).
Read the original post at “Technology in our Lives #4: Old Ways vs New“
Here’s the desktop version of the popular Buyers Guide. I’m going to go through most of the main components in a computer and describe what you should be looking for based on the type of things you’ll be doing with your desktop. The main categories of desktop usage that I’ll talk about are:
1. Casual use (programming, light graphics, light gaming, usage time: 0 - 1hr)
2. Moderate use (video / sound editing, lots of gaming, everything in casual use, usage time: 2hr - 5hrs)
3. Heavy use (tonnes of gaming, professional video / sound / graphical editing and everything in moderate use, usage time: 5hrs - 24hrs)
Read the original article at “Desktop Buyers Guide“
When I was a kid our game systems didn’t have multiple GPU’s, GB’s of ram and many processors. The graphics weren’t anything close to what they are today. When I was a kid we had the Super Nintendo. Today I came across a site that has Nintendo NES used Consoles and Games. Nintendosforsale.com provides a portal where you can buy vintage video games, used nes console, other vintage game systems.
Just last week I went onto ebay to look for a few N64 games. The prices were so high that I ended up just forgetting about the quest. Now that I’ve found this site I’ll be able to get those games for fairly cheap.
Nintendo N64
Super Nintendo
This really is a great site. It allows you to remember your childhood for a very low price.
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