Facelift

Recently Google has changed the way that users can publish their blogs, making it necessary to migrate my site from my own server to Google's. Not a huge issue (well, getting the DNS to take was a big deal, but that's another post) and I thought I would take the opportunity to make some changes to the look of russellholliman.com.

On the one hand, I really liked the custom template that I had been using. On the other hand though, Google offers a ton of new widgets that I couldn't use before. And since Google trashed my old template after the move...

So don't be surprised if the blog looks different with every visit over the next week or so. I'll be playing with the widgets, the layout, and if I can figure it out I'll be incorporating everything that I liked in my old template into the new one.

McGraw-Hill axed from iPad launch after CEO leaks on TV

The day before the show, Apple removed McGraw-Hill, the 122-year-old publisher whose 61-year-old leader, Harold McGraw III — better known as Terry — prattled like a teenage schoolgirl about the tablet’s iPhone operating system on CNBC:

Yes, they’ll make their announcement tomorrow on this one. We have worked with Apple for quite a while. And the Tablet is going to be based on the iPhone operating system and so it will be transferable. So what you are going to be able to do now is we have a consortium of e-books. And we have 95% of all our materials that are in e-book format on that one. So now with the tablet you’re going to open up the higher education market, the professional market. The tablet is going to be just really terrific.

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"Chad Vader – Day Shift Manager" hits Hulu

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The new Facebook iPhone app wants to upload all of my contacts to Facebook. Um... no thanks.

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How To Enable Windows 7 Secret God Mode

God Mode is a simple folder that brings all aspects of Windows 7 control in a single place. It collects all of the Control Panel functions, interface customization, accessibility options, just about every aspect of controlling Windows 7 into a single place.

God Mode is easy to set up too, just do this:

• Create a new folder anywhere.
• Rename the folder by pasting this name exactly as it appears (copy it first):
• GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

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Rolltop Laptop

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I realize that its fictitious, but I really want one of these.

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Israeli engineers to begin testing of ‘electric road’ next month

The system works by implanting tiny piezoelectric crystals into the asphalt, which created power when driven over. The engineers claim a 1km stretch of asphalt equipped with the power-generating system would create enough electricity to power eight electric cars.

via leftlanenews.com

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