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Posted by Brian McCullough I know this isn’t job-related, but… Yes you can. If you got the 13 inch Macbook Air, AND you fully souped it up (i.e., opted for the 2.13 GHZ with 4GB of RAM) then the answer is yes. Civilization V plays. It’s jittery, and the graphics aren’t that great. But Civ […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough So after all the hemming (himming?) and hawing, I guess we’re getting a stimulus package. The whole idea behind this thing is to create jobs… stem the flow of job losses… prevent a new great depression… give everyone a pony… take your pick. Is there useful news here for job seekers? […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough Last year, we had a post about surviving the year-end holiday office party without embarrassing yourself too much or putting your career in jeopardy. Ah… the good old days! Now I guess you’re just lucky if you’ve survived to witness the year end party with your job intact! And that leaves […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough In the pantheon of at-work-timewasters, computer solitaire has to stand alone in the first rank. Sure, there’s also Minesweep and now online soduku and Facebook Scrabble, but surely more work hours have been wasted playing that stupid included solitaire program on your Windows PC than anything else. Except maybe online porn. […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough I’m more of an Onion man myself, but if you get your at-work laughs from Dilbert, you might like to hear that the Dilbert.com website has gotten a bit of an upgrade. h/t WebWare. There are animated versions of Dilbert strips available, as well as an extensive expansion of the Dilbert […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough There’s no doubt that the 1980s was the golden age of cable access shows. In this age of video cameras that fit in your pocket and You Tube stardom, it’s hard to imagine now the sheer innocence and experimentation that people felt when suddenly they could be on the TV too! […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough Just cause I still stand behind the notion that most of the jokes suck (did you see what Google did to Gmail today? ANNOYING!) I will give one good one. Good joke.

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Posted by Brian McCullough March Madness starts next week, and the days of cursing your job silently all day because you’re missing all the action… they’re over. You can watch every single game, online… for free… over at CBS Sports. You do have to register, but still. Free, people! It seems like just yesterday that […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough If you’ve been a longtime reader of this blog, then you know we love nothing more than to find new ways to watch tv at work in your web browser. Today the news is that CBS has done a classic TV dump and you can now watch vintage episodes of Star […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough No good reason for posting this. It’s just cool. Click through here to see a cool interactive flash-based description of the new five-dollar bill and it’s features. Wish I could make neato flash graphics like that.

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