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Mac vs PC: Hardware and Software

I hate to sound like a Mac fanboy but, you really get what you pay for with computers these days. If you look at similar desktop and laptop PC solutions, you're going to save maybe a couple hundred dollars and have sub-par hardware that doesn't perform as well with the software and possibly uglier. Sometimes you'll end up spending exactly the same amount or more for the same hardware and still have a drop in performance because the software you're going to be using isn't tuned with the hardware like you get in a Mac.

I got published!

As expected, my Darfur article got published. Not to say that I knew or had high expectations of it getting published, but I'd been told by Gary Thompson and Nolan Dalla that it was "very well done" and "stunningly good" respectively and knew Nolan was going to send it out to his media contacts. But where it got published first was totally unexpected! So far it's gotten published in two places. I can't express in words how excited I am about this. My Darfur Article on MSNBC! and My Darfur Article on The Hendon Mob and My Darfur Article on PokerAllStar Can you believe it? MSNBC is where I got published for the first time that wasn't Concord's newspaper! Coming up soon: The Chronicles of Tim Huber as observed by Justin Grathwohl the WSOP PR Interns . It'll be a story about love, fame, fortune, and stupidity. I'm sure anyone who's met me recently has also probably met Tim as well and know what he's like. It will be a good, funny s

Who's Paying Attention? The Crisis in Darfur

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In a day and age when the broadcast and cable media are reporting on the misdeeds and slip ups of celebrities, some might begin to wonder exactly what is and isn’t newsworthy. What these channels hope to gain in ratings with this “entertainment news,” where hours upon hours are focused on famous people, they lose in newsworthy stories from around the world; stories that it seems the American public does not want to be informed about. In particular, one major story going on in a small place called Darfur in Africa.