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The Myth of Solid State non Defragmentation

Contrary to a popular rumor, solid state hard drive can still get fragmented

Contrary to popular belief, solid state drives (SSD’s) can become fragmented. This is counter-intuitive because most new machines which use solid state drives often show the information, “Never been run.” Since new SSD’s don’t fragment very easily, most users won’t need to run defrag on their Solid State Drive systems for the first few months of

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The Animals of Pasadena

Many animals live in Pasadena. I’ve encountered lots of cats, squirrels and racoons. One raccoon and one squirrel in particular seem to love the wooden fence in our area. They act as sorts of guardians. Sometimes, when I want to go to the gym at night, they stare at me. Maybe they are waiting for the “all clear” and that’s just how raccoons communicate safety knowledge (by staring contests).

Overall

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power of memes at the 99 cent store

thnx for the nice

So I was at the 99 cent store a couple weeks ago…trying to buy some coconut water. And I was paying with coins.

Why did I pay with coins? Well, I pay with change at the 99 cent store cuz I collect coins and that means I pay with cash alot. That means I have a great deal of unwanted coins lying around. These are

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Ra is an Asgard in Stargate Film

Ra is an Asgard (IMO)

In the Stargate film that came out in 1994, there was the primary villain character named, Ra. This article is not about the Real Life Mythological Being named Ra. This article is only about the fictional character in the Stargate film. Anyways, the movie always stuck out in my mind as an excellent one. But after seeing all of Stargate SG-1 and then recently

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Lost and Found

I’m looking at Craigslist.org’s Lost and Found section. It is really weird how many people are missing, #1 – their pets, and #2 their phones. I remember when my neighbors put up signs saying, “Please help. Lost turtle.” How do you loose a turtle? By the time you noticed the turtle was missing it could only have walked about 10 feet. Check the street-corner or farmer’s market. Maybe it was

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Evolution of External Hard Drives

Hard Drive

External Hard Drives for computers have undergone a tremendous amount of evolution over the past 13 years. In the mid-late 1990′s, the hip thing was to use Zip Disks. These disks were very similar to 3 and 1/2 inch floppies, but they had around 80 times the storage space. The zip disks needed a special reader that plugged into the computer via parallel port. Before zip disks,

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Gym Determination and Courtesy

gym determination

At the gym lately something has been changing. It was subtle at first, but now it is more clear than ever before. People are determined. This may seem obvious, this is a Gym we’re talking about after all. But this is beyond simple summer buffing up and puffing out. This is more than firming muscles and leaning down specific physical areas. I’m seeing people taking control of

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NAFTA and the SPP an unfinished system

NAFTA and the SPP – CLICK here for full PDF

About two weeks ago, I had to write a paper on a US / Latin American policy issue. I wanted to write on an issue that I didn’t already know much about. And I found that the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was something that I heard referred to by theorists and paranoid people…but I had

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First tangible sign of Hyperinflation

$4.99 for toothbrushes – May 26th, 2011 – CLICK for enlarged view

Inflation is a hip topic lately. Everyone has an opinion and a story, but these stories oftentimes seem disconnected with everyday life. Even gasoline has the feel of a process that takes time, technology and geo-strategic positioning to secure. But there is an item that I’ve been purchasing every couple months that does not change much in

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Limitless film interesting insight

How did the filmmakers of Limitless, know about Libya? The film said after analyzing a bunch of stock information and company profiles about an energy merger “…you’d have to back out of Libya.” But the film must have been in production on that scene a while ago because I saw the movie at the dollar theater which plays movies a couple months after their release date. And the original attack

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Link Farms and the need for Due Diligence

Diligence isn't just for lawyers anymore

DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. This is just information that I have gleaned through experience in running a website. Take any of this information or anecdotes with a grain of salt and remember that I am not actually suggestion that you do anything. I am probably using the word ‘you’ in the same sense as the

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Creepy Automatic Login Websites

n0n-consensual Auto Login

This has been going on for over a year, Automatic Facebook Logins for websites. I have absolutely no problem when a website asks me if I want to connect with Facebook or not. But when a website automatically and non-consensually logs me in the comment area via Facebook and knows my middle name…that’s when things start to get creepy. There are some sites that I

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Clothing is an Illusion

I got checked out by a very attractive woman a couple days ago when I was at the bank. And I know that a lot of women look at men and that’s not a big deal. But this was a Starship Enterprise Planetary Surface-scan of a look. I kept walking to the ATM area because I knew that if I made eye-contact I would have ended up on tractor-beam ghost

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