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Google Analytics Lost Data Late April

May 25th, 2008

If you’re like me and use Google analytics for all your domain names, you may have noticed some irregularities a couple weeks ago. Google Analytics is one of the best free tools that Google has, I have about 15 websites being tracked by Analytics and I love it.

Not to worry though, the service is back up and functioning perfectly. I mean, it’s FREE people, so the fact that it works and offers as much as it does is pretty awesome.
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I’m Freezing, I Wish I was a Bird

January 18th, 2008

Why would someone complaining about a frigid January Minnesota day be wishing they were a bird? Don’t birds stay out all day and night, don’t they freeze to death?

That’s exactly my point; why don’t birds freeze to death while I know I would, even with all my gloves and jackets. Birds fly high and don’t seem to freeze even on a windy -5 degrees F winter morning.

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80MB Disk for $12,000!

January 17th, 2008

I’m not sure how old this is; but I found this ad for a disk drive from System Industries, only 80GB for $12,000.

I bought myself an 80GB external hard drive a couple months ago for only $50.

One place where inflation seems to work in reverse is computer capacity vs. their cost. I am not complaining at all.

Take a look at this image:
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Am I a Nerd?

January 7th, 2008

Find out if you’re a nerd now using this nerd test website.

Well, I scored a 77, that’s mid nerd. Hmmm I’m a little disappointed.

How will you score in the nerd test?
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A Lego Computer Easy to Build

January 2nd, 2008

The Chow Family Website has an amazing project apparently built by the Chow Family! It’s a fully functioning Lego computer. I enjoyed reading and looking at their well-documented step by step tutorial. Hopefully you agree with me that this is a unique family project.

The Completed project consisted of a case with a wireless keyboard
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