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I just had to document my computer woes, and 140 characters wasn't doing it. I've read reviews of the Dell Studio Hybrid that absolutely love it; and those that absolutely hate it.  The jury's still out for me.  It's an awesome little machine, I actually check my e-mail and do most of my browsing on it; as well as letting it handle the entirety of my media center needs (T.V. recording, watching movies, playing music) it literally never gets turned off unless it forces a restart or encountered an error where the only option was a restart. Becky and I also play simple video games on it - with my Gyration remote it almost acts like a Wii on cra

I know Wacom has that competition going on right now - and I should be entering my own piece (decently along already; but still a lot of work ahead of me); but my Graphire 3's mouse finally died so I didn't have a choice. I use that machine, and thusly the mouse, for graphics and gaming. With the release of Left 4 Dead, the 3+ year old mouse/tablet just didn't stand a chance. I had noticed it a while back, but just thought it was my computer being stupid - then yesterday, it became constant: the left click button only worked if I was pressing it in a weird, obscure, sideways sort of way. So, I picked up a Bamboo - Fun. It's a sleek little t

So apparently they're renaming the Sears Tower to the Willis Tower (this has probably been in the news for a while). What's slightly more confusing is that there are 32,000 people in a facebook group protesting the right of the company that owns it to rename it... I'm one of those people that will still call it the Sears Tower, just because it'll be a weird habit to break; but I still believe it's fully within the rights of the company to change it. As a spokesperson for the Willis company stated: it's the building itself that is iconic, not the name. Even the name "Sears Tower" is just the name of the corporation that initially owned it -