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Plasma torch garbage processing produces usable gas, electricity

Saw this one over at CrunchGear - it sounds neat. Yet I wonder what the net return will be on this. Are fuel costs factored in to ship trash there once the immediate local garbage dump is exhausted? Judging by the scale implied, the plant isn’t going to move from dump to dump, so in the long run trash will have to go there. While the number of trash we produce will easily fuel this concept - can we get it their cheap enough to make it a more viable solution?

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Check out Mark’s post on how to get your hands on XP. Officially it can’t be had anymore.

Windows XP has been retired but you can still get it

Mark has pointed out a source for us to try and get it. If you get a new machine with Vista on it, building a PC for mom, etc - might be worth the effort to try.

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This post is a follow-up to the initial post I did right after installing the Firefox plugin called ScribeFire.

I must say - I love this firefox plugin. ScribeFire has really helped me breath new life into my blogs. I have been working on posting more in general, but I find myself really making use of it. I read a good post, I link to it in a post of my own via the in browser interface. I find this to be a sharp contrast to when I had tested MS Live Writer a while ago. I just never used it. Maybe the key difference is this is in Firefox, my personal browser of choice.

Anywho - I do recommend it to other bloggers. My intial impressions were spot on. It is easy to use and so handy I find myself blogging more than I used to.

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American Airlines’ WiFi debuts tomorrow; Glenn Fleishman’s analysis - Boing Boing

Read the article, its starting tomorrow. It is a pretty good article and I would encourage everyone to go and read it.

I am still thinking personally I wouldn’t want internet access on an airplane. When I was traveling full time as a software consultant, I loved the few hours of being totally cut off. No calls, no emails, no internet. (So couldn’t guilt myself into working.) It was a nice peaceful time of paperback books and ipods. I am sure there are those out there who love the idea of being able to work or whatnot from the air, admittedly there are times I really could have used the net as well, but not having a choice made it easy to relax.

What does everyone out there think?

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I love blogging… I am sometimes random and lazy at it, but I really do love it. (If I spent less time reading other blogs and more working on the various blogs I run I might get more done.)

Anywho - this particular post I am trying from the Firefox plugin: ScribeFire. First impression, where is the catch? Is there a hidden charge or donation button somewhere? This addon so far is working exactly, even better than, promised. Linking all of my blogs and being able to select between them inside of the addon, writing this post, etc… all simple.

It took me less than a minute to install, configure it for 5 blogs, and start working on this post. I will have a followup post on this later after I work with it some more - however if you are a blogger and are currently logging in to post your work (ie wordpress create new post screen) I would encourage you to try this - it rocks.

ScribeFire
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A quick note - I have looked more closely on my RSS Aggregation experiment, and for some reason on this site it turned out to be a total failure.  I discovered that instead of headlines and a little post, it was pulling entire articles - which was most certainly not the intent.  The sites I like to (Lifehacker, Geeks are Sexy, TechDirt, etc) I would like to point out great articles, most certainly not draw attention from them.

I have erred on the side of correctness and just deleted all of the pulled in posts till either I can figure out why full posts are coming in - or just not even bother trying to set up automatic headlines.  Point being to draw attention to sites I think are great, not away from it.

So for now the issue is moot.

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What is planned? That is an interesting question. For a while there, this site kind of went stagnant… between other blogs, real life, etc… it just went by the wayside. Well one of the changes I am testing out (after moving hosts, upgrading code again, etc) is some RSS aggregation posts. IE - pulling in geek news from big hitters. (ie the geek of the geek sites.)
Whether or not I will keep doing this, not exactly sure. I prefer to create my own content, even if it is a few comments and a link to another story. (Which is what the aggregation post is doing - title and content all link back to the author of the post.)
SGB is coming back - thats the plan. I need to revamp, and probably reduce or limit the outside content and get back to producing our own here. So I do encourage the readers who are still with us… keep track!

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Ensemble Studios is working on a new Halo game.  This one, Halo Wars, is a Real Time Strategy game along the lines of the Age of Empires games(made by Ensemble as well).  It will be released as a Xbox 360 game only.  No word as yet as to when the release date is.

They do however have a trailer available.

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Limewire, an app that we all know and love got sued by the RIAA.  So, what did they do?  Well, they didn’t lay down and take it.  They countersued.

They claim that the RIAA

goal was simple: to destroy any online music distribution service they did not own or control, or force such services to do business with them on exclusive and/or other anticompetitive terms so as to limit and ultimately control the distribution and pricing of digital music, all to the detriment of consumers. (Counterclaim, paragraph 26, page 18).

Way to go.  It’s about time that someone took it to the RIAA.  And it just might have legs.  The best part is that they are demanding a trial by jury.

Way to go Limewire!

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