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Does Your Car Talk to You? What Does Your Car Know About You?

15. May 2008 Steve
This is a very interesting article I justfound on the Internet and the teaser is below.I hope this is as enlightening to you as it was to me!
ScienceDaily (May 15, 2008) Years ago, Stanford communication and sociology researcher Clifford Nass wondered why some people treated their computers as humans, instead of machines, a question that led him down a path of interesting research. Now he wonders about drivers willing to have personal conversations with the artificial voice in their carsand what will become of the secrets the humans share with their four-wheeled friends.
Click the link below.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080513101713.htm
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Let Us Come to You When Your Computer Needs Help!

20. October 2007 Steve
Is your computer running slow or not at all, irritating you with non-stop pop-ups, bugging you with error messages, or just driving you nuts? Well, don’t throw it out! As bad as it looks, it can be fixed. All it takes is a quick phone call to The Help Desk where your computer will be fixed right the first time and at a reasonable price.
Never move your computer again. At no extra charge (within a fifteen mile radiusof downtown Greenwood), we will come to your home and repair your computer. In order for this to be convenient for you we also do not charge overtime for “after-hours” service with appointments. So feel free to make an appointment after your day at work. If we can’t fix it where you are, we will repair it at our shop, deliver and set it up again for you.
Give us a call today! We’ll be right over!
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Can a USB Flash/Thumb Drive Wear Out? Apparently So!

8. October 2007 Steve
Although you can write to these devices many thousands of times, they do have a limit on how many times you can do this, usually in the 10,000 to 100,00o times range. But they can fail with even fewer uses.
I have had the sad misfortune to have to tell several folks that they have lost all their data due to failure of their USB drives. And these were nowhere near the 10,000 writes where failure is more likely to occur. What they didn’t realize is that a backup means that there are at least two copies of the data. A primary copy of your files on any “backup” device is NOT a backup. Lose one of these devices and you lose your data with no hope of getting it back. A backup means there is a secondary copy of all data, a failsafe, if you will.
Your USB drive is not foolproof.
Please follow the link below to read about flash drives and their limitations.
http://ask-leo.com/can_a_usb_thumbdrive_wear_out.html