Technology
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And yours, too, though you may not know it, every time you read a blog, log on to Facebook, or use a service like Gmail or Hotmail. From an IT trade publication: Cloud computing builds on automated virtualized infrastructures by using extended management software to deliver environments where users can define, provision, and operate their…
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and how weird that there's a need for it.
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I'm not even that big a fan of Apple and its products, although I once was. But there's no denying the impact of Steve Jobs and the company he co-founded on the world we live in. In the video below, the Macintosh looks pretty quaint, but it really was a big deal at the time.…
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Heat. Humidity. Sex. It is miserably hot and humid here, as it normally is in mid-July. Air conditioning has transformed the South, so that this sort of heat is only a nuisance, not a major factor in how one lives, except that it drives people to stay indoors, so that the southern summer now resembles…
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Distracted from Distraction by Distraction The phrase is Eliot’s, from the Four Quartets. I’ve always thought there was a certain amount of jive in Eliot’s work, as much as I love it, and until recently might have offered this line as an example: does it really say anything more than “distracted”? Yes, I think it…
Light On Dark Water 