And for a third time . . . we’ll see if this works . . .

Dont take your I-Pod to Canada or Mexico . . . unless you also take proof that you own all the songs . . .
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A New way to make Li-Ion batteries . . . microwave them !
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Microsoft performs an exparament called Mojave . . .  
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Once again, I wait for computers to finish routiene calculations that take FOREVER . . . so I do a link dump . . .

Russian Cellphones atarct lightning . . .
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New Silicon based LED’s are much cheeper . . .
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Solar Powered AC for your home . . . but not like you think
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Ut oh . . . DNA evidence found several matches for ‘one’ suspect . . . entire system of DNA evidence called into question . . .
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So, I started to put together a list of things I was excited about in Fable II when I came across a post on Game Trailers by PiexelDamon.  He’s listed most everything I wanted to (and more).  Some of the stuff I’ve seen in game demo videos (and therefore, am pretty confident about being in the final game), but some may be from the early design phase of the game (and thus, may not have made it into the final game). 

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Today I feel a little under the weather.  Not like ‘oh my gosh I’m going to throw up’ . . . just ‘I have a headache and am a little sick to my stomach’ . . . just enough to be annoying all day long. 

Hopefully the Thursday staff tradition of either Chinese or Mexican food will fix the problem . . . or cause me to rid my system of all food products . . . either way.

Speaking of . . . well never mind . . . here are some links . . .

Crazy IT guy locks city out of its own network . . .
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Early Termination fees for your cell phone got you down ? . . . well some people suied Verision and got Verision to settle out of court . . .
Aparently customers OWE some other providers money lol . . . according to one court case . . .
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And MIT have designed a window that is a solar panel . . .
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Here is another link dump (as I wait for the Sunday MP3 to upload to the web site) . . .

Here’s a look at some of the Olympic buildings . . .
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Man steals Printer Secrets from IBM . . . no one else cares . . . though he faces some BIG fines and jail time . . .
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Stuff from E3 . . . . 

E3 is going on now . . . if you dont what that is then you wont care.  Microsoft had some big announcements . . . but the one that caught my attention was that Fable 2 was essentially finished . . . and that you might have some floating purple orbs floating around you . . . and that it will be out in October
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X-Box Live will soon include 8 person party, where you can get up to 8 people together and move from game to game together, watch slide shows, net flix movies and lots of other stuff . . .
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Gears 2 Launch date (‘emerging’ on Election day (meh)), Fallout 3 will have exclusive DLC for 360 (excited about the game, meh for DLC) . . . and some other stuff you might care about . . .
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Well the picture I took with my phone is garbage (you can see a streak of a flame and then darkness) and while I tried to take some pictures from outside . . . the firemen told me to go back inside. 

So I snapped a few pictures from my upstairs bedroom window.  They are all after the flames are out . . . when the car was burning I was in the back yard keeping the apartment between me and the burning car (incase it decided to go all Hollywood and explode bigtime lol).  By the time I got back into my apartment, and remembered that I had an actual camera to take a picture with, the flames were out.

Anywho, here is the picture.  The car that was burning was second in (see arrow) . . . the hood blew open but the trunk was opened by the fire dept. I guess to check and make sure no hot spots were left. 

I’m sure there is (at the least) paint damage to the cars next to it as the flames were (at one point) taller then my townhouse apartment. 

Sorry for the poor picture quality.  I tried to adjust the exposure on the camera to get a clearer picture of the car . . . but it was late and I was tired and didnt feel like messing with it . . . so I decided to go lay on the couch and watch CSI: Miami and fall asleep

No for real.  I heard this sound, like a bottle rocket taking off only MUCH louder . . . I looked outside and what do I see ?

Flames coming out from under the engine of my next door neighbors car.  Not like a little flame . . . a lot of flames and black smoke . . . and it’s getting bigger by the second.

I called 911 (the first time from this cell phone) and they told me the fire department was already on the way . . .

The flames got a lot bigger until the entire front of the car was in flames.

Now understand . . . this car is like 20 feet from my living room picture window . . . so all I can think about it all that glass flying toward me when this car explodes.

So I get some pants on, get the dog collored up, and we go out the back door.  I knock on the neighbors door (no answer) and then procede to the back yard keeping the apartment between me and the rising column of falmes . . .

There is this concussive thud along with a small boom that ripped through the air.

It wasn’t anything like in the movies . . . I didn’t expect a huge fireball or anything . . . but I was expecting a bit more

The fire department arrives 3 minutes later and start spraying water on the car and it goes out with out further incident.

They are still sparying water on it now.  I took a picture with my phone but a fireman asked me to move back . . .

I don’t have the adapter to upload the picture now . . . but it’s not much of anything anyways. 

What an adventure tonight has been . . .

UPDATE: I found the digital camera in the laptop bag and snapped a couple from the windows (as the police were asking the neighbors to stay inside).  Not sure why we had to stay inside (as the fire is out) . . . I supose to stay out of the way . . .

Well I figured I’d do a little bit of updating while I’m buring the master copys of Sundays and Wednesdays services to CD . . .

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This is no good . . . we’re only going to make more and more flat pannells . . .

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Well sorry for the lack of posts recently.  It’s been a busy weekend for me, as I’m sure it has been for you.

Anywho, mom came up for the weekend and she, dad, and I hung out a lot.  I finished up version three of the video (versions one and two were . . . just not going to work).  I delivered the very large gage extension cords to the Community service (Sunday PM) and Mr. Ed and I set up the camera to record the service (which went very well).

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