After reading a few blogs and praises of Chrome I decided to give it a try. The one reason was that Firefox, my current browser, seems to take ever increasing amount of memory as the day progress and makes my notebook sluggish. This is my experience with Chrome on a Windows XP notebook. I downloaded [...]
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About a month ago I had posted about Gaurav, who has AML, and his families efforts to raise funds for the Non-Related Allogenic transplant he needs. I am sure a few people have had there doubts if this is genuine, I have seen a couple of hits on my blog from Google w/ search terms [...]
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Why Global Warming May Be Fueling Australia’s Fires – TIME It’s important to acknowledge that no single weather event can be definitively caused by climate change — and it’s possible that the current inferno in Australia might have been as intense and deadly even without the warming of the past several decades. Police are beginning [...]
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Global Warming Threatens Antarctic Sea Life Posted using ShareThis
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Last week I posted EU: bundle rival browsers with Windows and argued against the idea. Now, Firefox architect Mike Connor has said he doesnt want his browser to be bundled w/ Windows: “My personal view is that it’s not the right outcome,” he said. “The choice [when installing Windows] would be weird. There’s no good UI [...]
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Sugar Beyond the XO Laptop: Walter Bender on OLPC, Sucrose 0.84, and “Sugar on a Stick”
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Poo Power! Oslo Buses to Run on Biomethane Posted using ShareThis
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Saving Gas: Pneumatic Hybrid Engine Is Much Cheaper Than Electric Hybrids And Almost As Economical Posted using ShareThis
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A couple of interesting tech news from India yesterday. First is the launch of Windows 7 in Indian languages. Microsoft, as a part of its efforts to overcome the language barrier to computing, has showcased a variety of custom made products directed specifically at the vernacular language market – a market that has been largely [...]
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I have read a series of “green” articles in last week or so. The first is my favorite, “Whisky Power! Distillery Unveils Scotch Green Power” and I’ll drink to that We pretty sure that the expression “drunk on power” was never meant to be taken this literally. Recently the Rothes consortium of whisky and scotch [...]
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