Archive for January, 2010

And you thought your commute was a bitch

Travelling a few hours each way is as about as bad as it gets for the majority of people that have to commute back and forth to work. Imagine though if you had to traverse these kind of roads everyday. Top Photo credits: 1, 2 – The Road of Death in Bolivia Stelvio Pass in Italy Full story

Desktop wallpaper Sunday – Some real gems

Even though I’ve had my head down in some ongoing projects as well as writing here and my home blog I’ve been getting an itch t o do some desktop remodeling of my machine. As nice as the Windows 7 rotating wallpapers are (and the Bing ones are absolutely gorgeous) I’ve been looking for some Full story

James Madison High School Gym Teacher Charged With Sexual Assault

James Madison High School Gym Teacher Charged With Sexual Assault
It would seem that James Madison High School in Midwood, Brooklyn is living up to its new nickname as “Horndog High”. Allegations have surfaced against 37-year-old gym teacher Lisa Guttilla of sexual assault on a 14-year-old girl at Poly Prep Country Day School where she worked part time as a volleyball coach.  She also worked at SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "James Madison High School Gym Teacher Charged With ... Full story

Steve Jobs has fighting words for Google and Adobe

It would seem that Steve Jobs may be rallying the employees of Apple for an all out war in the coming months with Adobe and Google. While some are questioning the health of Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, once again, one thing is abundantly clear that the man has not lost any of his fight. In Related posts:... Full story

Firefox Mobile Launches For Nokia’s Maemo Platform

Firefox Mobile Launches For Nokia’s Maemo Platform
After ages of discussions and rumors, Mozilla has at long last launched the first mobile version of the Firefox Web browser for mobile phones. Mozilla has announced that the first version of Firfox for mobile phones is ready to launch.  So far the browser is only available for Nokia phones running the Maemo platform, specifically the Article originally published by StarterTech.comFirefox Mobile Launches For ... Full story

Sean P. Aune’s Articles For The Week Of January 24th

Sean P. Aune’s Articles For The Week Of January 24th
Only 51 posts this week … Conan O’Brien news last week really sent me over the top. FunJug.com Mortal Kombat Is Not A Tournament MAFIA WARS Commercial Star Wars vs. Star Trek Photo.BLORGE.com Panasonic announces three new Lumix models Apple’s iPad could be a great new tool for photographers RememberingChristmas.com The Christmas Truck SeanPAune.com Print Media Can Save Itself If It Tries iPhone May Be Headed To SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Sean P. Aune’s Articles For The Week Of ... Full story

Spammers hitting us through Google Maps emails

I haven’t seen this vector for spam before so excuse me if this isn’t something new but it is for me. I just got both these emails not 5 minutes ago and as you can see below (click for full size) they came via a Google noreply email address which is once way to make Full story

Google Begins To Cut Support For IE6

Google Begins To Cut Support For IE6
In what is turning into a seemingly never ending war between Web sites and the Internet Explorer 6 Web browser, Google has just struck a major blow that may help hasten its death. Google has announced that as of March 1, 2010, portions of the Google empire such as Google Docs will no longer be supported Article originally published by StarterTech.comGoogle Begins To Cut ... Full story

Amazon pulls Macmillan publications from the Kindle over price dispute

It what might be the first sign of Amazon feeling the pinch of the iPad, the major ecommerce site has pulled publications from Macmillan from the Kindle store in what is being described as a dispute over prices. Amazon has long raised the ire of book publishers by demanding that the prices for e-books be kept Related posts:... Full story

Buffy Season 8, Issue 31

Buffy Season 8, Issue 31
***MAJOR SPOILERS*** Characters Seen: Andrew Buffy Dawn Faith Kennedy Oz Riley Willow Xander We open on Buffy flying. Yes, you read that right … flying.  As in like Superman does.  Don’t worry, she’s as confused by it as we are, and she has no clue why or how she can do it , and she doesn’t understand why she feels the need to hide it from everyone SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Buffy Season 8, Issue 31", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2010/01/30/buffy-season-8-issue-31/" });Post ... Full story
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