This is simply an amazing story. Regina Rohde, current Virginia Tech student who survived the shootings of this week, was also a student at Columbine High School during the shootings 8 years ago. At Columbine she was at the center of the attacks, in the cafeteria if you recall, but managed to escape.
I don’t really [...]
MySpace News, their latest service based on the acquisition of NewRoo, is set to launch today. The service will begin as a news aggregator, similar to Google News how information is pulled in from multiple sources across the Web, and will evolve into the Digg-like arena of social, user-submitted news. The URL, said to be [...]
We knew the positive praise of New Jersey Transit from a few days ago couldn’t last. FOX 5 NY News announced this morning on their newscast that New Jersey Transit will be raising ticket prices on buses and trains by 9.6% starting June 2007.
For a company that can hardly seem to get anything right I [...]
Free Willy has gone astray! OK, so it’s not an Orca, but marine biologists have been keeping watch on a young whale that has wandered it’s way in New York Harbor and nearly ventured into a highly polluted water passage.
The whale is a 15-foot long minke whale that was wandering around Gowanus Bay, the outlet [...]
April 18, 2007 – 12:37 am
Google Docs and Spreadsheets, essentially their online office suite, was launched to rival the Microsoft Office programs Word and Excel. There was one program in Microsoft Office that was missing from Google’s office suite, the presentation software PowerPoint. It won’t be missing for long.
Yesterday Google CEO Eric Schmidt confirmed that Google will indeed complete their [...]
When we think of Britney Spears we think rehab, uncontrollable, poor mother, etc. When we think of Leonardo DiCaprio we think humanitarian, global warming activist, well-rounded, etc. We thought wrong.
Reports state that in 2005, Britney Spears donated $590,000 to various charities, including $350,000 to programs that went toward Hurricane Katrina relief and $175,000 alone to [...]
Some of you might have been as baffled reading the title of this entry as I was when I wrote it, but yes, New Jersey Transit has actually done something positive. Generally my posts about New Jersey Transit have to do with them “biting the dust,” however for once I am actually going to commend [...]
First off my apologies for not posting in so long. One week is the longest I’ve missed a post in quite some time, but there is good reasoning behind it: illness (we can thank Carin for that).
Alright now that the housekeeping details are out of the way, here is a clip I came across yesterday [...]
Happy Easter to all! Today is Easter Sunday, the day we celebrate Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead. It is on this day which Jesus conquered death and sin and all that is evil. Easter celebrations officially began last night with Easter Vigil.
I celebrated Easter mass last night at such an Easter Vigil, or “resurrection [...]
Yesterday Google launched a new service into Google Labs called Google Voice Local Search, aka GOOG-411. Google describes the service as an “experimental service to make local-business search accessible over the phone.”
To use the service is very easy, simply dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-4664-411) from your phone. Best of all it’s absolutely free, no more paying $2+ [...]