Author Archives: Alvin Trusty

Adventconspiracy.org

Posted on December 15, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

http://www.adventconspiracy.org

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On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog

Posted on December 14, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

It has been a couple of months since Taffy became a part of our family.  I created a post when we first got her and included her email address. She hasn’t used that email yet (she’s still a pup and … Continue reading →

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Teaching To The “A” Student

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Here’s an excellent presentation by Benjamin Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. He demonstrates a lot of excitement which he attributes to attitude.  No PowerPoint here.  He makes his point with some very simple drawings (more like scribbles) on … Continue reading →

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Change.GOV switches to Creative Commons

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Maybe the new president will bring some change to our copyright laws.  It seems the first step was taken today as CHANGE.GOV’s copyright designation was changed from “all rights reserved” to Creative Commons Attribution license. It is a well known … Continue reading →

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All Hard Drives Will Fail

Posted on November 9, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Disk Storage View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. From 2004 to 2008 I was lucky. During that time I didn’t have a single hard drive failure at home. The law of averages caught up with me this past summer. … Continue reading →

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