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Monday, August 11th, 2008

Tonight from 8pm to 9pm Bloviations will be upgraded to Wordpress 2.6.
You may experience difficulty accessing the site until upgrades are complete, which should be no later than 9pm.

Will September 10th be the End of the World?

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

CERN will fire up the Large Hadron Collider.
They’ve said previously that nothing bad will happen.
I figure it’s a 50/50 crap-shoot.

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Testing the Tweets 2

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Tweet tweet?

Testing the Tweets

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Tweet tweet?

Glad to Know File: CERN Rules Out Doomsday

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

MSNBC’s Cosmic Log reports.
Europe’s CERN particle-physics lab has issued its long-awaited report on safety issues surrounding the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest and most expensive atom-smasher. Some have feared that when the collider reaches full power, sometime next year, it might create microscopic black holes or other exotic phenomena that could endanger Earth. The [...]

This is a test of Microsoft Word 2007’s Blog Tool

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

This is a test of Microsoft Word 2007’s Blog Tool.

This is a block quote.

This should be a pretty picture of a happy sun.

More annoying ways you can keep tabs on Tom

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

In today’s digital and Internet-powered world, there seems to be a new way to keep track of your friends.
And, in the interest of being a geek, I am attracted as a moth to the flame to many of these services.
Here are the ways you can track me throughout the wide world web:

Facebook
Twitter (also, see [...]

FedEx Delivers…Just not on time

Friday, May 9th, 2008

The PC finally arrived. It was after 5pm, but I was able to pick it up and am typing away on it right this minute.
Though, I noticed a curious thing about the PC when I got it back and turned on.
It was exactly how I’d left it.
All the files, programs, settings, everything was the same. [...]

Hewlett-Packard (HP): A Letter Releases My PC

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Just for fun, I checked the  Customer Service Order Status page for my PC’s repair. I was shocked to see that the Current Status listed my PC as being “prepared for shipping.” Oddly enough, though, the expected delivery date is still May 20th.
I chuckled at that.
Then, later today, I received an automated email from HP [...]

Hewlett-Packard (HP): A letter to CEO Mark Hurd

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Dear Mr. Hurd:
I would like to take this opportunity to express my complete disappointment in HP.
I purchased an HP Pavilion DV2310US notebook PC in May of 2007. In March of this year, the PC began to malfunction. It would not fully turn on and became unreliable. On 27 March 2008 I submitted an online service [...]