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21 Jan 2010

In the wake of the devastation in Haiti, Dave Matthews Band has partnered with Music For Relief to help. From the DMB official website:
American Rejects, Enrique Iglesias, Hoobastank, Kenna, Lupe Fiasco, Peter Gabriel and Slash for DOWNLOAD TO DONATE FOR HAITI, a recovery effort to aid the nation of Haiti in the aftermath of the [...]

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Tags: Dave Matthews, DMB, Linkin Park, Music, music for relief

Apple Discriminating Against Smokers? Really?

In: Current Events| Products

29 Nov 2009

Three different Mac users have claimed that Apple voided their AppleCare Protection Plans due to second-hand smoke. According to Ruth, one of the Apple customers who wrote into the Consumerist:

I bought an iMac for my son (for school) along with the extended Applecare warranty. A month ago, it quit working. My son took it to [...]

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Tags: apple, apple iphone, apple laptops, computer, mac, repair

Ode to John Hughes

In: Current Events| Movies| RIP

6 Aug 2009

News was just released that John Hughes, writer, director and producer of such films as “The Breakfast Club”, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “Sixteen Candles” died today of a heart attack. His publicisist confirmed that he was in Manhattan visiting family and died during a morning walk.
Being a child of the 80’s, I pretty much [...]

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Tags: Movies, RIP

‘Tis a sad day in Hollywood. RIP Farrah and MJ.

In: Current Events| Life| RIP| Twitter| Wordpress

25 Jun 2009

It’s been almost 2 weeks since my last blog post and I’ve been itching to get on here, but I have been having major Wordpress issues. If you are reading this, hopefully, that means they problems have gone away. For any Wordpress gurus out there, these are the issues I am still having:

Pics not showing [...]

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Tags: Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, RIP, Wordpress

Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King – Songs & Lyrics #dmb

In: Current Events| Dave Matthews| Products| Reviews

3 Jun 2009

I was going to do this detailed review, but it’s just so incredibly good that words won’t do it justice. So good, that you just need to listen to it. So here.
TRACK 1: GRUX
TRACK 2: SHAKE ME LIKE A MONKEY
The thing I like about you
The way you do what you do
The thing i like about [...]

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Tags: Dave Matthews, DMB

Dave, Buster, a Shopaholic and a Snow Storm.

In: Current Events| Life| Reviews| Save Becky

2 Mar 2009

Sorry, I have been so quiet lately. Well, I HAVE been tweeting, so I added a Twitter widget adjacent to my main blog page for those of you tweeps not on Twitter yet. If you haven’t joined, you MUST. I have met so many wonderful people on there from around the world. [...]

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Tags: Dave & Buster's, Movies, snow

Natalee Holloway…in the pond?

In: Current Events

28 Jul 2005

OK. I just went on CNN.com and read about how they are draining a pond in Aruba searching for Natalee Holloway. Here is a quote from the story:
“The pond is next to a racquet club and across the road from the beach where brothers Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and Satish Kalpoe, 18, told police they dropped [...]

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Tags: Natalee Holloway

My theory about Natalee Holloway.

In: Current Events

16 Jul 2005

I’ve been following the Natalee Holloway story because I’ve been to Aruba many times and love the island so much. Deep down, I truly believe that Joran van der Sloot is guilty of something. Whether it was an accidental death and he freaked or he deliberatley killed her, he is guilty or knows what happened [...]