The Smidgen

Everything you never needed to know. Ok maybe not everything, that would be ridiculous.

Browsing Posts published in September, 2010

TweetGliese 581 is a star, a red dwarf star to be specific, that’s about 20 light years from Earth.  Slap a ‘G’ on the end of that name and you have the sixth observed exoplanet in that solar system (gliesean system?).  That’s cool, exoplanets are still fun but we’ve found over 400 of them now [...]

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TweetWelcome to a new segment of the Smidgen dedicated to the wacky things those CEOs and other high profile executives say and do.  Today on the block is Nokia CEO EVP and GM of Mobile Solutions, Anssi Vanjoki.  When asked why Nokia hasn’t made the switch to use Android like nearly everyone else he responded [...]

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TweetFor those who do not know, J. Michael Arrington is the founder and CEO of TechCrunch, a tech “news” blog not unlike this one.  OK, it’s completely unlike this one because it has a huge following and lots of cash but we do have one thing over them apparently and that’s journalistic integrity.  Pathetic, I [...]

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TweetApparently, Snoop Dogg hates him some Cyber Crime.  Understandable, who doesn’t really (except dirty cyber criminals) but given this knowledge I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have speculated that he’d team up with Symantec’s Norton antivirus products and declare “Hack is Wack”. (I’m serious) That’s right my nizzle, Hack is Wack and you, yeah you, can [...]

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