Archive for August, 2008

What is a Thumb Drive?

A thumb drive is a portable data storage device. In computer parlance, it is known as a USB flash drive, but it can be known by a variety of mix and match descriptive names such as USB key, USB memory key, key drive, flash key, compact flash key, or compact flash drive.

The names come from […]

Brett Favre, Just Shut Up!

I am totally burned out on the Brett Favre story. Actually, I was burned out on the second day of the story. After a week, my feeling was like, Just shut up! Every time I turned on the sports news, there was Brett. ESPN even created a FAVRE category for their news crawler. I’m sure […]

How I Almost Lost my Domain

By the year 2000, I had been online with a modest website for several years under the persona of Broken Claw. Until that time, I had been using the online services of what were known in those days as Personal Pages, first with some free ad-sponsored websites like Yahoo Geocities, and then with my local […]