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January 17, 2006
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Yes, I am aware of the content issue. I'll be posting some stuff this weekend. Promise Wink.

Dark energy is changing.

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An idea that arose in the late 90s, dark energy seems to act over very large distances, pushing the Universe apart at an ever increasing speed. At the moment, many researchers believe that dark energy may be a foam of quantum particles that exists throughout the vacuum of space. Under that scenario, dark energy would be a constant and unchanging force, according to Michael Turner, a cosmologist from the University of Chicago, Illinois.


UK to host online-gambling summit. Anyone want to bet what happens?

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Online casinos and poker rooms form a market valued at up to $12 billion a year globally. Online poker has surged in popularity as it pulls in a wider audience than traditional casino gambling, often including women and younger players who may not have visited casinos.


IBM gets $1.1 Billion service contract from Gap.

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As part of the agreement, Gap expects about 400 of its employees, or workers at its subsidiaries, to join IBM. The company and IBM have the option of incorporating additional services into the agreement over time. Gap, which runs Banana Republic, Old Navy and its namesake stores, can renew the 10-year deal for up to three additional years.


Companies pushing virtualization into Linux.

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One complicating factor to the acceptance of the OpenVZ virtual private server is another technology, virtual machine software. Recently, servers using x86 processors such as Intel's Xeon and Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron gained new partitioning options through virtualization. First came VMware's virtual machine software, which uses a hypervisor to let multiple independent operating systems run on the same computer.


Forming an opinion faster than a blink of you eye.

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Like the look of our website? Whatever the answer (and hopefully it was yes), the chances are you made your mind up within the first twentieth of a second. A study by researchers in Canada has shown that the snap decisions Internet users make about the quality of a web page have a lasting impact on their opinions.

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