codyg1985’s Think Tank

Astrophysicist Steven Hawking said at a lecture in Hong Kong Tuesday that the ability for the human race to colonize space would be essential for the survival of the human race because Earth could be hit with a disaster that would make life on this planet impossible. Hawking suggests that a Moon colony can […]

After switching my hosting to Linux (which I should have done from the beginning), any blog post that I make with Word 2007 is sent into the past back to November 1969. This has been reported by many bloggers, and I am assuming that Word cannot successfully convert its date to conform with the […]

eBay is set to unveil AdContext, a keyword-based advertising engine that will compete with Google and Yahoo. The ads will contain links to auctions that are related by keyword to whatever page that ad appears on.
Examples cited of how the new system would work included a sports website that would carry links to eBay […]

Digg, the technology-oriented social bookmarking website, is about to expand its horizons to include more general subject matters, such as world news, entertainment news, and financial news. The changes will occur in about a month.
Personally, I think this move was inevitable with the increasing popularity of the website. Digg is already a forefront […]

You wonder why I am not surprised by this? The National Security Agency (NSA), who was revealed to have been purchasing phone records of innocent Americans, is now funding research for a new front on the ever-increasing reach of the U.S. government. That new front is the many social networking websites such as […]

In early May, Microsoft bundled a program into a critical security update that validated your copy of Windows. If the program found that your copy was not genuine, it would trigger a dialog box to appear on a regular basis to remind the user that they could have been a victim of software piracy.
Unknowingly, […]

I have not posted on here in a while about my personal life, and this is mainly because I am trying to steer clear of that stuff in favor of more intellectual and stimulating content.  With that said, however, some people may be coming here to see what is going on in my life, so […]

After emailing my host to ask about the problems that have been plaguing this site, it was suggested that I switch to a Linux hosting solution which would provide full PHP support. My former configuration, since it was running under Windows, would not allow but basic PHP functions to run.  As a result, many […]

Maybe this can be explained by someone lying down on the keyboard by accident, but this story from MSNBC seems to have something missing, and has no substance or meaning at all.

After acquiring the online word processor Writely, Google is seeking to continue to build an online alternative to Microsoft Office by developing an online spreadsheet program. Appropriately named Google Spreadsheets, the program allows you to create basic spreadsheets and save them in either CSV (Comma Separated Values) format or in the Microsoft Excel format […]