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Looking Ahead

I stopped writing much for Where Did My Brain Go? recently, because I wanted to take the SCWCD (Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5) exam on Jayne’s Birthday, July 30th. But I just postponed it for a month or two, so I can have other interests.
There is [...]

Stephen King’s Favorite Story

Lexington is semi–paralyzed today, under nearly two inches of snow.
So I turned on the TV this morning, to see if my daughter Audrey’s school was open, and was pleasantly surprised, when I was greeted by Matt Lauer interviewing one of my favorite novelists, Stephen King.
King was promoting his latest novel, Duma Key, which is [...]

Trackbacks Are Working

After seven months of mostly–blissful ignorance, Where Did My Brain Go? finally has trackbacks.
Trackbacks are used by bloggers to inform each other, when they link to each others blogs. If I link to a post on someones blog, I send her a trackback, so she knows who links to her work.
I keep track of [...]

Jeopardy! Quarterfinals End

Jeopardy! continued its Tournament of Champions on Friday. The quarterfinals ended, in a wild game won by Doug Hicton.
Andrew Rostman, who led for most of the game, went into Final Jeopardy! with twice as much money as Hicton. Rostman also had more than twice as many correct answers as Hicton, 23 to 12. However, Rostman, who [...]

Toughest Jeopardy! Game of All Time

I was so excited after Thursday’s game, that I wrote about it — my first post in almost two weeks. It was also the first time I had written about Jeopardy! Unfortunately, it was not very good.
I did not list the winner’s name, or link to his bio. However, the worst part, is where [...]

New Categories

Where Did My Brain Go? came to the Web five months ago, and it is time for a makeover. I have started by reorganizing the content into new categories, which make more sense to me, and hopefully to you, too.

Stop Visual Spam

Have you ever found it hard to read something on a Web site, because the content was surrounded by blinking, flashing images?
Lorenzo Colitti and Philip Chee, have developed software, which eliminates that problem for Firefox users.
Flashblock is a Firefox add–on, which replaces the content of Flash, Shockwave, and Authorware files with a neutral image, [...]

Wiping Out Windows

Welcome to the first post from my rejuvenated laptop. I overhauled my IBM Thinkpad T40p (model 2373G1U) and it is now working better than ever. I replaced my old dual-boot system, which let me choose between using Windows XP, and Novell Linux Desktop 9, with Novell Enterprise Linux Desktop. I was afraid that my [...]

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