This Week In Tech to offer paying members access to new Forum

Leo and the gang got a little negative feedback this past week about the show so they have taken down the commenting section in hopes to detour negative feedback.

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Tired of Living on Earth? Build your own island!

Pretty cool..this man built his own island out of 250,000 pop bottles, off the coast of Mexico. He lives on it, grows his own produce, uses rainwater for showers...the whole nine yards.

The first story has a few more pictures.

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Get Internet Explorer!

Tabbed Browsing? Screw that. I must have been laughing for a few minutes.

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Super Bowl XL

All I can say is thank goodness it wasn't Seattle vs Denver. I could not imagine watching a Super Bowl of two teams I hate more. Go Steelers and the count down to Super Bowl 40 has begun

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Welcome back I hope you like the new blog design, thanks to Thur’s Templates

Geek To Me:



Geek Conventions, CES (Consumers Electronics Show) and MacWorld go check out Revision3, DL.TV and LabRats.TV. In addition check out the TwiT podcast for further coverage. Check out Steve Job’s keynote from MacWorld 2006.






News:

Stephanie’s Laptop screen went out but we were able to get it fixed with our City Advantage Plan through Circuit City

My Parents got a new computer for Christmas. It is a Dell and very smooth. I in turn got a new 2400+ AMD Athlon XP CPU for my computer. Makes computing much faster and speed is everything.

Sorry about the Audio on the video for Nathan’s Wedding. I will make sure to a have a Mic for upcoming events.

Jessica of Course got spoiled for Christmas. We had a great time and look forward to coming down again.

Review of Recent Posts

We are all over Rootsmart.com so go and check that out.

Google refuses Federal Government demand for search records to detour child pornography.

A must look at the new Star Wars Animated GIF. And oh ya I am turning the BIG 30 this February.

Geek to Live: Lifehacker Pack

A very nice listing of free programs from lifehacker.com. This is the Geek version of the Google Pack, these are items I use on my own computer. This is worth checking out.

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G4TV Cancels CFH ...........Again

Thanks to the guys at TechTV Forever. The G4TV network will no longer air any episodes of Call For Help TV in the United States. This does not suprise me, but does make me a bit sad. From what I can tell this would mean it could be canceled in Canada and Australia as well, no official word as of yet. With Leo Laporte's successes in podcasting and new projects such as Macbreak he may not have enough time to get everything done.

#1 Inkjet Store Online

I just got a color ink cartridge for our EPSON 777i inkjet printer from this website. Cost $6.95!! I did a ton of printing and the cartridge is still going. I thought I would pass on the information. Looks like they sell for nearly every type of inkjet printer. Saved me 13 dollars and shipping was free via USPS in about 5 days time.

Garth Brooks - Bad Ride Cowboy

Back in 2005 Garth Brooks decided he liked the idea of being able to release a second boxed set of his last albums exclusively with Wal-Mart. It seamed like a great idea give the Box Set to the working class at an inexpensive price. Of course Wal-Mart could provide the outlet to for this.

However, Garth’s record company Capitol Records was not to excited about an exclusive deal sell with Wal-Mart. This would surely upset its other retail outlets. In the end Garth was able to get his music away from Capitol Records and released the Garth Brooks Unlimited on Black Friday.

Re Releasing his albums was not a big deal, many artists do it and Garth himself had done it once before with the Garth Brooks Limited. With that box set 1 never before released song was added to all six albums. This was great, however the only way to get those six songs is through the Limited Box Set. As a Brooks fans both my wife and I bought the album mainly do to not owning a single album on CD (ya, I had some cassette tapes). So we killed two birds with one stone. Following albums were purchased one at a time, the last being Scarecrow. We would own all 11 albums 12 cds if you count the Double Live album. We also own a Garth McDonalds release, but it is just songs from previous albums.

So what does this have to do with making an honest person little choice? In Garth’s latest boxed set he included a Lost Sessions album. The only place to get this CD is through the boxed set and only at Wal-Mart. As somebody who already owns 4 of the 5 albums in the set I am extremely disappointed in Garth’s lack of foresight. No way in the world will I re-buy 4 albums that are already in my collection. So what choice am I left with in this situation?

I guess I could wait for the album to come out as a single, but why should a Garth Brooks fan be forced to wait for him to decide on that. I could easily illegally download it from the Internet, but I may face the wrath of the RIAA. I could always find somebody with a copy and burn it or finally search for it on EBAY! Now granted 25 dollars isn’t much to spend on 5 albums plus on DVD, but there is something to be said about Garth Brooks saying he is doing this for the fans, but in reality he is lining his pockets with more money. I am disappointed for sure. Garth is a great recording Artist and he had good intentions but as far I am concerned all he has done is leave honest people little choice. Bad Ride Cowboy.

Google Pack

Seams pretty interesting. Includes some good programs from Norton Anti-Virus to Google Earth all for free. Worth taking a look at.

Happy New Year

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