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Be cautious if you find a USB stick, thumb drive on a train or plane

Just a Guy — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:54:20 +0000

Be very cautious about plugging any USB sticks or thumb drives into your computer if you aren’t sure where it came from. That’s a pretty obvious piece of advice, I would think, but apparently some people need to be reminded. To put it in simple terms echoing childhood cautions: “Don’t put that thing in your mouth [USB port], Johnny — you don’t know where it’s been!”

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Be cautious if you find a USB stick, thumb drive on a train or plane

Wow, Gulf oil monster just keeps chomping stuff down

Just a Guy — Sat, 29 May 2010 21:41:51 +0000

I guess the BP technical geeks must be feeling pretty desperate by this point. (Probably well before this point, if I know engineers.) No matter what they’ve shoved at the leak, or crammed down it, it just keeps chomping it all down.

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I’m not ‘gadget-phobic,’ but I do have strong feelings about some

Just a Guy — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:26:27 +0000

I’ve never considered my self anti-technology, nor in anyway opposed to high-tech progress. Indeed, I absolutely love to fiddle with new computers, smartphones, LCD/LED televisions, all the rest. (If I were a smoker, I’d probably even try some of those electric cigarettes to help me kick the habit.)

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Are alternative power sources starting to make sense yet?

Just a Guy — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:25:00 +0000

Are the many alternative energy and power sources out there that scientists and politicians have been preaching about starting to make sense yet? More importantly, are they any more practical and usable than they were, say, 10 years ago? Are the next great thing in batteries or wind turbines or even nuclear power plants on the horizon yet?

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Are alternative power sources starting to make sense yet?

Someday we’ll wave magic wands to cure anything, I suppose

Just a Guy — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:20:23 +0000

I read a lot of medical and health news online most days, because as I grow older and suffer “old guys” aches and pains I find I have a more personal stake in medical advances than I used to.

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Someday we’ll wave magic wands to cure anything, I suppose

Any good ideas about MP3 players — besides iPods?

Just a Guy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:40:43 +0000

I’ve just decided there’s a good reason in my life and business to buy, finally, one of those portable MP3 players.

Yes, I’m generally operating well below the curve when it comes to the high-tech world, whether we’re talking about something as sophisticated as “smartphones” and laptops, or something as simple as skin lotion or eye creams.

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Wish I knew more about computer video stuff

Just a Guy — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:34:50 +0000

I wish I knew more about computer video stuff. My son bought himself a big-screen LCD television when he found one at a great pre-Christmas price. It included a PlayStation 3 and he’s trying to hook his computer up to use it off the LCD big-screen, too.

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Better watch out — GPS probably tracking you

Just a Guy — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:40:51 +0000

If I were inclined toward conspiracy theories and overblown “Big Brother is watching you” stuff, I would be afraid to 1) ever use my little old cell phone, 2) ever own a new car, or, 3) ever buy a hand-held GPS device.

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Better watch out — GPS probably tracking you

Do you still read newspapers? How? How often?

Just a Guy — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:18:47 +0000

Some years ago, shortly after Gutenberg invented movable type or thereabouts, I worked for seven years as a newspaper copyeditor. (Those seven years were the best 10 years of my working career — if you get what I mean.) At that time, my colleagues and I, rushing to put out two issues daily at a mid-sized metropolitan paper, could not have imagined the current, sorry state of the newspaper industry. Which brings me to my question for you: Do you still read newspapers? If so, how do you read them, and how often?

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Scary news from front lines of ‘cyberespionage’ reported today

Just a Guy — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:19:38 +0000

Some scary news from the front lines of the battle of “cyberespionage” was reported today: Cyberspies from foreign nations have penetrated the nation’s powergrid — and left various types of hidden software in place to have their way with the U.S. energy system pretty much whenever/however they decide to knock us around.

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