Geek & Technophile

I'm an IT Professional, geek and technology 'edge case'. I enjoy keeping up with the latest devices, technologies and news in the IT world. On this site I post some of those things I find most interesting. I hope you find them interesting as well.


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February 02 2008

Don’t double dip that chip

Chips and SalsaLast year the food microbiologist’s undergraduate students [at Clemson University] examined the effects of double dipping using volunteers, wheat crackers and several sample dips. They found that three to six double dips transferred about 10,000 bacteria from an eater’s mouth to the remaining dip sample.”I like to say it’s like kissing everybody at the party — if you’re double dipping, you’re putting some of your bacteria in that dip,” Dawson said.

Nothing really surprising there… but it does remind most of us of a hilarious Seinfeld clip.  Classic!

Make sure you watch the dip at your SuperBowl party… actually, might be best to just stick with the chili.

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January 29 2008

Man crush?

I think someone has a man crush…

January 16 2008

Macbook Air – What’s it missing?

PCWorld points out some interesting missing components…

- Ethernet jack
- Multiple USB ports
- Removable battery
- Firewire
- Upgradable RAM
- Large Hard drive

This is becoming a wireless world but wi-fi only might be stretching it this soon. And without being able to use multiple batteries you’ll still be connected to a wire for the power.

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January 14 2008

Bill’s last day in the office