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Perseid Meteor Shower tonight, August 12th.


This will be fun if you have clear skies, and a dark moon:

Perseids are fast meteors and they tend to be bright. If a viewer is lucky, an occasional fireball can be seen during a Perseid meteor shower.
Perseid meteors will appear to “rain” into the atmosphere, and while all the viewer has to do is [...]

High-Def DVD battle looks bleak


The high-definition DVD battle is panning out just as one would expect. There just isn’t enough of a difference between the standard DVD format and the HD-DVD or Blu-Ray formats. The formats are confusing consumers, and this is a major sin when it comes to electronics looking to go mainstream.
When DVD came out [...]

IBM PC turns 25


The old IBM PC has turned twenty five years old today. It is the day I became a geek. The IBM PC came with a floppy disk drive and MS-DOS. It was the first computer that was not considered a toy. It was a business machine.
From the Article:

A floppy disk is [...]