Archive for 'General'
Scary Trucking Data from North Carolina
According to an article in Asheville Citizen-Times the roads in North Carolina are pretty scary. Here is the data from NC Highway Patrol for just three days (Tues – Thursday of this week). 214 commercial motor vehicles inspected were inspected. 236 driver violations were issued (26 removed from service). Obviously, some drivers were cited for […]
Posted: November 9th, 2007 under General.
Tags: , highway, north carolina, trucks, violations
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Looks like a duck, Walks like duck, Quacks like a duck; is a spammer
I have my home library on Library Thing (my ID is libri_amor) and yes, it’s Latin. I find it lots of fun to catalog this stuff, review etc. Today there is a very interesting entry on the Library Thing blog that illustrates the somewhat blurry line between spamming and unscrupulous business practices. Here is a […]
Posted: November 8th, 2007 under General.
Tags: book, library, library thing, social_networks, spam
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Seagate Hard Drive Settlement
Did you buy a Seagate Hard Drive between March 22, 2001, and Dec. 31, 2006? You may be owed cash or free backup software. The story is that in a court case nearing settlement, Seagate mislead you by the way they advertised GB specifications on their hard drives versus the actual number of bytes. BTW, […]
Posted: November 2nd, 2007 under General.
Tags: , computer, hard drives, lawsuit, seagate, settlement, tech support
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