BrokenClaw | September 23, 2007
I attended my high school Homecoming football game yesterday. There was no particular reason for me to go, other than that my mother called and invited me, and I had no other plans for the day. The last time I had been to a football game at my old high school was probably about fifteen [...]
BrokenClaw | September 18, 2007
In case you hadn’t noticed, the FIFA Women’s World Cup tournament is in full swing in China. We all know that football is the most popular sport in the world. That’s soccer to those of us in the USA, and since this article is about the USA, I will call it soccer. Last month I [...]
Smilodon | September 16, 2007
A web cookie is a short segment of data sent from a website to your browser when you visit a webpage. The browser then sends the cookie back to the website at a later time in order to verify that you have been there previously. The cookie was originally developed in the 1990s as a [...]
Smilodon | September 15, 2007
A port on a computer is a socket for a specific type of plug, used to connect components or peripheral devices. On early models of computers, each peripheral device had its own port: an AT keyboard port, a serial port for a mouse or modem, a parallel port for a printer, a video port for [...]
Smilodon | September 14, 2007
The hard disk drive (abbreviated HDD), more commonly called the hard disk or hard drive, is the device that stores the operating system, your software, and your data files. It is a magnetic medium, as opposed to the optical media of CDs and DVDs. The hard disk is the most complicated mechanical device in the [...]