They tried to make me go to Blu-ray, I said no, no, no. And no to Zune, and PlayStation, and BlackBerry, and most other new high-tech gadgets whose gadgetology is invariably overtaken by an even newer high-tech gadget before you’ve even paid the credit card bill.
But I know that not all of you are like me.
I don’t own a dishwasher, for instance, not since the kids grew up and left home. I_don’t have an answering machine, either, because I figure if I’m not home you’ll call back.
REGINA — With federal money in hand, the Saskatchewan Party government is moving forward with plans for a clean coal carbon sequestration demonstration project.
A day after the federal budget earmarked $240 million to the province for the project, Crown Corporations Minister Ken Cheveldayoff and SaskPower president Pat Youzwa announced plans for a seven-year, $1.4 billion project that involves the retrofit of one of SaskPower’s coal-fired power generation units at Boundary Dam near Estevan.
SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft Corp. launched a new version of its server operating system with great fanfare Wednesday, but analysts said Windows Server 2008 is an incremental update rather than a giant leap forward.
At a Los Angeles event that opened with a speech by former news anchor Tom Brokaw, Microsoft also unveiled a new edition of Visual Studio 2008, used by computer programmers to create desktop and Web applications. The event also promoted a third program, Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 database system, which won’t be available until the third quarter of this year.
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