Out of the Woods

The future of home entertainment is fully connected devices. You’ll be able to retrieve any type of content (music, photos, and video) from anywhere in the house using an array of networked devices. While most of today’s TV activity focuses on the set-top box, there is a new breed of television starting to appear that has this connectivity built in. Check out HP’s newest offering, the SLC3760N, that includes wired and wireless network connections and can stream content from an in-house server in addition to sources on the Internet.

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Ever since we watched the kickoff of the NBC show “The Book of Daniel” the other day, I’ve been trying to figure out how to succinctly put down in words my feelings of utter disgust for the show. How refreshing it was to come across a blog entry that perfectly sums up my take on it. Check out “What NBC Thinks about Christianity.”

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It seems many people think the poor apostrophe is so underused in the English language that they take it upon themselves to use it all over the place, even when it’s completely incorrect. One of my biggest peeves is when the spelling of the possessive form of “it” is spelled with an apostrophe. True, an apostrophe is normally used to indicate possession. However, the possessive form of “it” is “its” with no mark. “It’s” is only correct when indicating the contraction of “it is” or “it has.”

Another very common and very incorrect use is in making a word plural. Most plural forms are made by appending an “s” or “es” to the end of the word. No extra marks are necessary. Even acronyms should simply have an “s” added (e.g., “VCRs”).

I came across a great cartoon drawing that summarizes the rules perfectly. Check it out.

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Our crack management team at work, always ready and willing to blurt out the latest buzzword and jump on the latest bandwagon, is prepping us to move over to “matrix management.” We’re supposed to be trained in it in a few days, where we’ll doubtless be told whether to take the red pill or the blue pill.

A coworker came across a very enlightening article describing the root cause of the Columbia destruction. And it wasn’t the foam; it was matrix management. I wonder when our foam will hit.

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