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Chief Poingologist Mark Meshulam
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It is becoming increasingly clear that the next major world conflict will arise from a clash between fundamentalist Islamists and those they deem to be infidels.
Islamist thought content is so foreign to Westerners, that our only tools are to fight violence with violence, or to attack monetarily.
While these methods are important - it is necessary to kill or capture murderers and choke off their money - these methods address the effect, but not the cause of the problem.... Read more |
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It could be the evil confluence of two graph lines. One line represents "room left in brain". The other represents "data input". Result: Overblosis of the cranial cavity, otherwise known as Brain Overload.
Having lived my life as a baby boomer, the demographic group which has been the obsession of unprecedented hoardes of marketing focus groups, I already know that when I fart, so do a hundred thousand of my contemporaries.... Read more |
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I received a great response to the recent Brain Overload piece from none other than my sister, Reba Meshulam. She is uniquely qualified to comment because 1)apparently her brain is about to explode, and 2)she is a renowned video producer who has an Avid and knows how to use it. Enjoy...... Read more |
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Being relatively ignorant about 1 1/2 years ago when I embarked upon software development, I did not grasp the significance of a comment was made to me by one of my coders... Read more |
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Dear Readers, Last episode ended as Poingo-man stood on the precipice of a very important choice: to give up the secret code and fall in with the forces of the Open Source (motto: "May the Source be with you"), or to spring for some other method of converting to PDF while jealously guarding the source, in the interest of capitalism and self.... Read more |
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Many among us sail through our lives blissfully ignorant of the reason our web addresses start with the secret code "http//:" Increasingly we think it is superfluous because when we omit entering it into the address line of our browser, usually we arrive at our destination regardless... Read more |
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It's hard to be impressed anymore. But when I learned of the phenomenal achievements of Tim Berners-Lee, I became not only impressed, but awestruck.
Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World Wide Web!
And what did you do today? ... Read more |
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I grew up on North Avenue, a 4-lane street cutting East-West across the middle of Chicago. My folks owned a clothing store there and our family lived upstairs. It was 1961 and I was 9 years old.
On each corner was a tavern. Not chic-chic martini bars, not Viagra-triangle cigar bars, but hard-core bastions of liver-pickling alcoholism. .. Read more |
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