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The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (manages the pension plan that all working Canadians pay into) is heading further out on the risk curve in search of higher returns, putting $300-million (U.S.) into the $1.9-billion purchase of a majority stake in Internet phone service Skype by a group...

Might be interesting to any gaming fans with some art talent and imagination: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=15234890244&sid=1

A study has found that male stock traders whose ring fingers (the one between the little finger and the middle finger) are longer than their index fingers seem to do better at short-term trading. The relative size of the ring finger can indicate an increased sensitivity to testosterone, which...

Microsoft released a beta of Internet Explorer 8 today. Although available to anyone with XP or Vista, it is aimed at web developers and designers. It promises better "standards" compliance, faster performance and increased security. The beta version also has a prominent button that...

Daniel St-Pierre, 43, died last March 25 in Montreal after developing complications caused by a bacterial ear infection. The coroner concluded he had pierced his eardrum accidentally with a cotton swab, which allowed the infection to reach his brain...

Haven't been keeping up to speed on this stuff... My new system's CPU is an INTEL QX6700 (2.66x4) ... looks like all these new CPUs are 64-bit nowadays. Therefore, what are people's thoughts about going with 64-bit Vista as opposed to 32-bit? Is 64-bit pretty solid nowadays (at least as...

Level cap being raised to 80, the Northrend continent will be opened, new profession called "inscription" that boosts spell power and a new hero class called the Death Knight. http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/

Microsoft has finally released a replacement for IE6. A lot of work has gone in to cleaning up the interface and vastly improving security. Internet Explorer 7 has been in beta for several months now and has received some pretty solid reviews. And today, Microsoft released the final, complete...

Windows Vista Beta 2 has been available to official beta testers and MSDN customers for a few weeks now, but today Microsoft announced that it will be made available to an even wider audience. The Windows Vista Customer Preview Program makes a pre-release edition of Windows Vista Ultimate...

Four Infineon executives will serve jail time after pleading guilty to being part of an "international conspiracy" to fix the price of computer memory, the US Department of Justice announced today. The four Infineon staffers were charged with participating in meetings to discuss the price of...

Microsoft Corp. today announced it will target broad availability of the Windows® client operating system code-named "Longhorn" in 2006, and make key elements of the Windows WinFXTM developer platform in "Longhorn" available for Windows XP and Windows ServerTM 2003. "Longhorn" will deliver...

http://www.blizzard.com/jobopp/level-designer.shtml

I guess I can let everyone know that I got a special gift-- I'm now an "MVP" But not from Blizzard. From Microsoft! Apparently they noticed me here and on other forums and they have sent me a LOT of goodies. Such as a big gift certificate to their online store where things are sold super...

From www.battle.net: Looks like some more fun tools for you map makers to learn about!

Old school memory tester program! Another good one is www.goldmemory.cz

Blizzard has begun blocking ICMP packets (used by the PING and TRACERT troubleshooting tools) on the b.net servers. From www.battle.net... March 12, 2002: Battle.net servers no longer support the PING or TRACERT (traceroute) commands. This is due to abuse of these utilities in malicious...

I like to use the shuffle feature in winamp with bigass playlists, but it seems winamp3 will always start with the same first song before it starts to randomize. Annoying! Anyone know if it can be fixed or is it a bug?

Windows 2000/XP: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=winxp-2k_41.09 Windows 9X/ME: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=win9x_41.09 Windows NT 4.0: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=winnt_41.09 (does anyone still use this???) For all Geforce and TNT based cards. Hopefully it will fix...

OK-- I was just trying to swap out an old 10mpbs NIC for newer a 10/100 card that I had lying around. Easy job, I thought. Good way to kill some time before work (I got annoyed with the light on my switch telling me that #2 wasn't running at 100mbps) Unfortunately I am an idiot and I left...