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Entries from November 2007

Indignant Funk Pharaoh

by Matthew Smith · November 29th, 2007 · No Comments

A little late on the news side, but Indignant Funk Pharaoh is playing tonight at 550 Blues, Macon, Ga. I’m sure you haven’t heard of the band, but that’s because they’re new and they’re local. IFP is a funk/jazz/fusion band and all members of the band are fantastic musicians. If you’re wondering what they sound [...]

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Categories: Music

I’m Even More Sure That Vista Sucks

by Matthew Smith · November 28th, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve been well weary of Microsoft’s newest iteration of Windows as Vista, and have refused to install it on any of my personal machines. Recently, I rebuilt a system for my cousin that consisted of an AMD Athlon 64 x2 4800+, 4GB ram, and sported a GeForce 8600 256MB video card. I thought that such [...]

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Categories: Technology

The $200 Laptop Project

by Matthew Smith · November 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Over Thanksgiving break, I worked (as some of you might know) at a local computer store. It just so happened that I have been thinking about looking for a new laptop to replace my aging (and rather crappy) Mercer model, and one of the other technicians mentioned that he had a laptop he’d be willing [...]

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Categories: Technology

Happy Late Thanksgiving!

by Matthew Smith · November 26th, 2007 · No Comments

I hope that everyone had a great thanksgiving! I was so busy stuffing my face and working (at the computer store) that I forgot to post. Oh well – at least I remembered eventually, right?
Over the break, besides consuming unhealthy amounts of delicious food and working to get some cash (and pay off those speeding [...]

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Categories: General

Gmail Storage Boost

by Matthew Smith · November 20th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Don’t know if anyone has noticed lately, but it seems Google is handing out an early Christmas present to its’ beloved users. The rate of increase of storage space has increased drastically – after hovering below 3 GB for the past year or so, Gmail accounts now have 5000 MB and counting – rapidly. In [...]

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Categories: Technology

Nine Inch Nails Big Supporters of Open Creation

by Matthew Smith · November 14th, 2007 · No Comments

As you all know (or should), we here at digivation love all things open and wonderful. And that makes me happy to note that while surfing the ‘net I ran across a new NIN remix CD, Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D (Year Zero Remixed). The album itself is actually quite enjoyable, but the most fantastic part of the deal [...]

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Categories: Music

Book Review: Scripture and Discernment

by Matthew Smith · November 12th, 2007 · No Comments

For the second paper in my Christianity class, I had to discuss Luke Johnson’s Scripture and Discernment: Decision Making in the Church. I present it to you in all its’ glory, PDF style here. And only eighteen minutes after I turned it in! Talk about hot off the press…

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Categories: Musings

Writer’s Strike

by Michael Chappell · November 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment

As I am sure most of you are aware by now, the Writer’s Guild of America has gone on strike. If you are wondering why, let me break it down for you. First of all, TV networks have begun distributing shows over the Internet. The writers, who are generally compensated whenever any [...]

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Categories: General