Archive for April, 2009

Swine Flu Knock Out Punch To The Economy?

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Swine flu and its economic affects and impact

Looking at the my FireFox browser, which default homepage is Yahoo, I can see clearly the the swine flu outbreak has taken over the headlines. When, I go to other other websites like MSN and even to my local area news websites like the Toronto Star, it’s always on the front page and this reminded me of the S.A.R.S incident back in 2003 where Toronto and Hong Kong was affected hard.

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If You’ve Got Company Health Insurance – Now Is The Time To Use It – Before A Lay Off

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Company health Benefits and Insurance

My company is currently heading for an imminant lay off in my department. My department already went through two rounds of lay offs, and now it looks like another one is coming soon.

So in light of this situation many of my fellow co-workers and myself are taking advantage of all their health benefits…NOW! If you have dependents like kids or husband / wife get everyone in the family taken care of as well.

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Recently Bought Used Apple eMac PowerPC G4 800Mhz Computer with 768MB of RAM Running Mac OS X Tiger

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Apple eMac 800Mhz computer Mac OS X TigerTo get rid off Microsoft Windows operating system / platform in my household, I bought a used Apple eMac computer about 5 months ago to get my feet wet in the world of Apple Mac OS X operating system, and to of course not have to
deal with any more viruses, spyware and all that crap associated with Microsoft Windows.

How much did I pay for the Apple eMac?

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Should America Be Blamed By The Rest Of The World For Causing The Global Economic Recession / Decline?

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Here is a video of a British economist, talking about how the rest of the world feel right now about the irresponsibilities of the U.S Government and the U.S financial system.

Click “PLAY” to watch the video…interesting views.

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Revive Your Old Personal Computer (PC) Hardware with Xubuntu Linux – Get Off Of MS Windows

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Xubuntu 8.10 intrepid ibex default desktop

I had a really old pc sitting downstairs in the basement, and was thinking about chucking it in the garbage, but then I thought I could revive or breath new life into it somehow, and use it as strictly a downloading machine (Bit Torrent) and Secure (SSH) file server.

The old pc specification is as follows:

CPU / Processor: Intel 433Mhz
RAM / Memory: 320MB
Video: Onboard video
Hard Drive: 8GB
Network Card: 10Mbps (connected by wire to router)

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