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Wyclef?s Yele Haiti Being Questioned.
2010-01-17 01:18:00 A new article that showed up on TheSmokingGun.com is making statements accusing Wyclef ’s organization, Yele Haiti , of not spending its money well. According to the article certain tax papers aren’t showing good signs of what they money is being spent on. The money that Yele Haiti spends is being investigated to see if the costs ... More About: Politics , Earthquake , Thoughts
Buying A Used Car.
2010-01-09 06:51:00 Shopping around for a used car is by far one of the hardest things I have ever done. I am not very well rounded when it comes to cars and how they work, whats good, what is bad, etc. The only things that I actually knew about cars were brands, some models, and a few ... More About: Buying , Toyota , Tech , Thoughts
What Happened in 2009 ?
2010-01-02 21:24:00 The year 2010 is around the corner but it is time to look back at what 2009 brought us and me specifically sometimes. My new Eee PC : just have to love the Netbooks, they are great. Google Voice: Google rolls out another revolutionary service. MiFi the future of WiFi: It seems like soon we ... More About: Thoughts
Sherlock Holmes.
2009-12-28 23:13:00 3.5 out of 5 starsThe infamous Sherlock Holmes is now on the big screen. The movie came out the 25th of December and broke record sales. The movie is an adventure with a bit of comedy and a little romance on the side. It keeps you interested in the mystery from start to end ... More About: Movies , Entertainment
Avatar.
2009-12-27 20:24:00 4 out of 5 starsIf you haven’t heard by now the biggest movie of the season is finally out. I went to see it earlier today at the earliest showing because all the 3D I-max showings are completely booked almost all the time. Avatar is well known because of the technique used to film ... More About: Movies , Entertainment
College Tools: RateMyProfessors.com
2009-11-23 18:12:00 Continuing with the College Tools post, I would like to introduce another useful tool: RateMyProfessors.com. This website is very well known in compared to the previous tool mentioned Cramster.com but not everyone seems to use it. In this website you will find a review on almost any teacher in your college. If he is not ... More About: Tech
T-Mobile Outage.
2009-11-04 06:52:00 T-Mobile seem to have suffered a massive outage today.According to some friends, text messages started getting delayed at around 5:30pm (Easter Time). After 6pm the text messages started to get lost and some messages never got sent. Calling was not allowed or receiving calls from 6-8pm. So far the problem seem to be in New ... More About: Cellphones , Tech , T-Mobile
Paranormal Activity.
2009-10-19 17:15:00 3 out of 5 stars It seems like in the past few days and weeks I keep hearing more and more people talk about this movie, Paranormal Activity. Everyone keeps saying that is very scary and you won’t be able to sleep well at night. I love horror, scary, gore movies so I couldn’t let ... More About: Movies , Entertainment
Google OS Chrome Leaked.
2009-10-15 00:37:00 TechCrunch earlier today had reported that a Google Chrome OS folder was online publicly with some information on the upcoming Operating System. After that information leaked a user found a way of getting the source code and compiling it which leaked even more information and snapshots of the OS. And now it is available to ... More About: Tech
College Tools: Cramster.com
2009-09-26 05:47:00 One of my favorite college tools that I discovered a bit late is Cramster.com. This website provides over 200 books in different fields with their homework solutions. Their subject range isn’t too big but it will help out mostly in Math, Computer Science, Biology and Physics. I would highly suggest to use this as an ... More About: Tools , College , Tech
Scheduling A Meeting Using Doodle.
2009-09-10 20:59:00 If you host meetings or participate in some form of meeting then you know the hardest part of the meeting is trying to figure out a time when everyone is available. That is no longer that big of a problem thanks to Doodle . It is not a new service and it is a website that ... More About: Tech , Meeting
The Time Traveler?s Wife
2009-08-16 07:00:00 4 out of 5 stars Before I went to see this movie I didn’t have a clear idea of what it was going to be about. All I knew was that the movie was based on a very popular book that I have not read and that it was about the relationaship with a guy ... More About: Movies , Entertainment , Wife , Time , The Time
Twitter Panic !
2009-08-06 18:09:00 It seems that the great Twitter is down. I am not a Twitter user but found out about it earlier this morning on Tech Crunch and now they announced that it is the cause of a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDOS). Of course most people would see this news and ask why are people ... More About: Security , Panic
How Does Netflix Work ?
2009-08-06 16:42:00 Have you ever wondered how Netflix is able to send and receive so many movies a day? My best guest would of been all automated, someone picks up and throws it in a machine that sorts and what not and then someone drops off at the mail box tons of movies to be shipped. I ... More About: Movies , Entertainment , Tech , Work
MagMe: Read Magazines Online.
2009-08-04 15:37:00 Not too long ago I wrote about a website called Mygazines.com that allowed users to read magazines online for free. They were scanned by people and had great quality, easy to read. Then a few months later that website ran into some legal issues and just recently re-launched but it doesn’t have as much content ... More About: Entertainment , Magazines , Tech , Read , Online
Funny People.
2009-08-02 18:48:00 4 out of 5 stars I am a big fan of Adam Sandler’s work, he always delivers funny movies and he has also showed he could do more serious movies like Reign Over Me. Funny People was a mix of both of those worlds. The movie had its classic Adam Sandler funny moments but ... More About: Movies , Entertainment
The Bing Challenge.
2009-07-27 17:47:00 If you haven’t heard by now, Microsoft revealed a new search engine called Bing which is set to compete with Google . I have realized that I am extremely used to using Google. Every time I am going to visit a website and I’m not 100% sure of the name I would google it and even ... More About: Search Engines , Tech , Challenge
Facebook: Make it easier to tag and find picture of friends.
2009-07-21 19:23:00 Everyone who uploads a whole album of pictures hates tagging pictures over and over and over again. But a company called Face.com has introduced a new program that uses facial recognition technology to find friends and possibly even tag them for you. This would save you lots of times. As of now it seems like ... More About: Friends , Tech , Picture , Find , Facebook
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
2009-07-16 15:20:00 4 out of 5 stars I usually never go to see movies on the first day they came out but a couple of friends convinced me to go see Harry Potter on the Wednesday it premiered. I have slowly become a Harry Potter movie fan because there movies are unpredictable for the most part and ... More About: Movies , Entertainment , Prince
Twitter Classified Documents Leaked.
2009-07-15 15:29:00 It seems that a lot has happen over night while I was sleeping. Reading Tech Crunch this morning, I learned that they received an email with plenty of confidential information leaked from Twitter . For some odd reason the users at TechCrunch have responded saying that it is unethical to publish that information, even though websites do ... More About: Security , Hack , Classified
HBO: Hung.
2009-07-13 17:10:00 I got to see the first two episodes of HBO new original series titled Hung. It is about a guy who is well hung, has a big member if you know what I mean… His life isn’t going very well economically and in other ways and has realized that he actually is hung and people ... More About: Entertainment
Google Knol, Still Alive.
2009-01-18 06:20:00 In late 2007 Google had announced a product called Google Knol . It was meant to compete with Wikipedia and help users make money by posting pages. Most of us thought that this idea had died but Mashable has an article saying that Google Knol now has 100,000 pages which i a quite impressive number. But ... More About: Tech , Alive
Windows 7: Beta 1 Leaked
2008-12-29 17:31:00 The “first beta” of Windows 7 has been leaked out and available for download at certain bittorrent sites. The beta that has been leaked out was meant to be shown in January for a special show. Some people are saying that it is pretty good, they have put a lot of effort into developing this ... More About: Microsoft , Tech , Beta , Windows 7
What Happened In 2008 ?
2008-12-29 08:37:00 Here is a quick list of things that happened in 2008 that I blogged about. Of course there is plenty of other important things that I didn’t get the chance to talk about. January: Google Adsense Killers: I have yet to see them kill anything. The Start of OpenID: The great OpenID project goes full gear. March: My BlackBerry Pearl: ... More About: Firefox , Blackberry , Thoughts , Google Adsense
Finding A Good Domain Name.
2008-12-24 06:58:00 It took me almost 3 weeks to think about a good domain name for my website but I finally got it. I wanted something that you could add a subdomain and still sound good. But coming up with a domain name isn’t easy and even worse yet the best names are probably taken and ... More About: Internet , Domain , Domain Name , Tech , Domains
What Did People Google In 2008?
2008-12-16 21:07:00 As the year comes to end it is time to slowly start rolling out those list of “what happened in 2008 ″ and those sort of things. So to start the list we shall look at what were people interested in finding this year. Google Zeitgeist has the list by global searches and by certain countries. ... More About: People , Tech
Quantum of Solace and Twilight.
2008-11-26 20:43:00 It has been a long time since I had been to the movies to actually watch a movie that came out recently. This past week I got to see Quantum of Solace , the new James Bond movie and the infamous Twilight. The James Bond movie was a good movie filled with good none too exaggerated ... More About: Movies , Entertainment
Rock Your Vote!!!
2008-10-28 00:27:00 Rock Your Vote ! Vote or Die ! However you want to put it make sure you go out and vote. It is not too late to get an absentee ballot if your not in your town which is the case for most college students. If you already got an absentee ballot and you’re not sure where you have to go and vote then check out CanIVote.org it will give you the information of where you’re voting and other general stuff. Don’t miss out on the elections, don’t let other people choose for you. Make sure you have your ID with you the day of voting even though rules change from State to State make sure you won’t be fooled. It is illegal to wear any type of “promotion” pin or t-shirt or what not when you go voting (this may not be true for certain states) but make sure there are no way of you getting cheated of voting. Go Out And Vote! Yasser More About: Rock
My New Toys.
2008-10-23 23:29:00 It’s been a long time since I write anything on the blog mostly because I’ve been busy with school and what not. Every time I try to write something I come up blank. Today I’ve decided to write about some new things in my life. I’m going to start off with my newest sneakers: I just got them recently and changed the shoe lasses to white because I think it looks better with white. If you didn’t know by now I’m growing to love sneakers, specifically Nike SB’s and read HypeBeast every now and then to keep up with whats hot and what’s not. On another note me and my roommate recently bought a new 32inch LCD TV. You can check it out on NewEgg. So far it has been great it even picked up Digital channels on its own through the basic cable. I didn’t know TV’s were able to do that. We tried buying a HD antenna but it didn’t really pick up many channels, we were better off with the basic cable and the HD channels it read. For no... More About: Toys
Heroes, Villains.
More articles from this author:2008-09-23 23:36:00 The best television show of these times is back. Heroes had a two hour premiere yesterday and as usual they didn’t disappoint anyone I know. Adding more twists to the already complicated story; this season is dedicated to villains, the bad guys. And to make it even better they have introduced a whole new set ... More About: Entertainment , Villains 1, 2, 3 |
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