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Geddy, Alex, and Neal playing their best on Expert-level of Rock Band?

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Stop Illegal Spying

The president has violated the law and the Fourth Amendment by allowing the National Security Agency to spy on the communications of millions of ordinary Americans. Over five years since this domestic wiretapping program first began, the Bush Administration is still fighting meaningful oversight at every turn.

Meanwhile, more privacy invasions continue to come to light -- for instance, the FBI has blatantly abused a key PATRIOT Act power and violated the law to spy on Americans, according to a report recently released by the Justice Department's Inspector General.

It's time for Congress to do its job and help restore the checks and balances that define our democracy. Use the link below and tell your representatives to conduct immediate and thorough investigations into the government's illegal spying.

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del.icio.us: making Firefox more del.icio.us

The only way to save your bookmarks!

See the Quick Tour at:
http://del.icio.us/help/firefox/bookmarks/quicktour

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Description of the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility

I was getting an error dialog saying:

The feature you are trying to use is on a CD-ROM or other removable disk that is not available. Insert the 'Scan' disk and click OK".

I couldn't browse anywhere on my drive to find the scan.msi file that it seemed to be looking for. I clicked cancel and then got the following error dialog:

Error 1706. No valid source could be found for product Scan. The Windows Installer cannot continue.

The file '1' is not a valid installation package for the product Scan. Try to find the installation package Scan.msi in a folder from which you can install Scan.

I did a Yahoo! Search for variations of my error message and found the solution at Description of the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility

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I've started blogging with my Yahoo! 360 service.

It allows me create and share my blogs; share photos from the Web or a mobile device; recommend favorites and a lot more. Nicely ties all my Yahoo! services together in one place. Very cool for social networking too.

Read the Yahoo! 360 press release for more details.

Send me an email if you want an invitation to Yahoo 360.

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Foamy The Squirrel... check it out...

::iLL WiLL PreSS:: HOME OF NEUROTICALLY YOURS, 4Y-RECORDS & MORE.

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Give the new mobile search a try at http://search.yahoo.com/ or http://wap.oa.yahoo.com/raw?dp=yms

You can quickly do a web search, image search or a local search to find restaurants, movies, driving directions, etc. Also see changes to www.yahoo.com

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Forbes.com : Wireless

Wireless Hot Spot locator. Search by City. Example: Palo Alto, CA - Some are free.

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When Mars was historically close to Earth last month, Hubble Space Telescope officials took and released two color pictures taken with the observatory's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. They were said to be the sharpest views of Mars ever obtained from near Earth.

Complete info at:
Image of the Day

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Wired News: Licensed to War Drive in N.H.

DURHAM, New Hampshire -- A land where white pines easily outnumber wireless computer users, New Hampshire may seem an unlikely haven for the free networking movement.

But the state, known for its Live Free or Die motto, could become the first in the United States to provide legal protection for people who tap into insecure wireless networks. [More]

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Here's a good site for utilities: MajorGeeks.com - Geek it 'till it MHz

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Here's some handy bookmarks that I always have to do a websearch for and would rather have them handy here:

GNU Emacs Manual:
http://www.gnu.org/manual/emacs-21.2/html_chapter/emacs.html

The rest of the GNU Manuals Online:
http://www.gnu.org/manual/

MySQL Documentation:
http://www.mysql.com/documentation/

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