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The times they are a changin'

The saying is true. We have had FISpace up and running for around 5 years now. Almost before it was even cool to Blog. But now we need to move on. As we dynamically change and update everything from our Tag Cloud to our authors Typepad is just not pulling it’s weight. Worse yet they want to charge us (As ...

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I'm back and our IT Dept doesn't suck

So I just got back from vacation and yes it was awesome. Yes you can email me for photos. And yes I didn’t check email 2 for two weeks. But the cool thing when I got back was our new iTunes policy. You see most non-profits when you talk to them about IT they wince, or they say "What IT ...

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The Instant-On Green Computer

We’ve had resistors, capacitors, and inductors as the three fundamental elements in circuits. Now we may finally have the physical manifestation of the "memristor," originally described back in 1971 by engineering student Leon Chua, thanks to nanotechnology and HP Labs. Basically, it’s a resistor with memory. As you might guess, this could lead to RAM that is non-volatile, and could ...

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Some Follow up Tweeting

We have been getting a great response on our post about "What the h$%^ is twitter". Wanted to update you on a few more non-profits on the list: Leukemia Salvation Army American Cancer Society Heart Association Karen Rose, who is running our twitter account says "we are on twitter because of the great awareness it generates and we want reach ...

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