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Why you must use spyware removal software

Antispyware software is a necessity of the modern internet-connected world. Spyware is now considered the top threat to computer security, according to the Anti-Spyware Software Review 2007, surpassin...



Internet Access Types

In this article you will learn that what are the major internet access types and how these internet access method works. Following is a brief overview of the major internet communication methods. DS...


Online Games Adds Fun In The Education Of Children

Children constantly need to be enlightened and entertained so that they do not get bore and lose interest in their studies, which is very important in building their career. Enlightenment and entertai...


How Can Awful Deals Help Your Business

How AwfulDeals.com can help YOUR business! "A wise man learns from the mistakes of others" How many times have awful deals infected your company, staff or customers? How many times have ...


Security Solution for VPN: SSL or IPSec?

Being an emerging VPN technique, SSL VPN has been gaining the prevalence and popularity very rapidly. Compared with the traditional IPSec VPN, SSL VPN is a better solution for the remote access of mob...


Three Reasons Why World of Warcraft Is For Everyone

Ever wanted to become a gamer? Even if you have never played a game, there is one game that will catch your attention and that is World of Warcraft. The biggest MMORPG (massive multiplayer onl...


The USB Data Storage Strategy

The cutting-edge USB data storage devices make data storage easier and more portable. While the contents of everyone's computer are unique in nature, the need to store, transport and archive data is a...


The Different Types of Data Storage

There are actually many different types of data storage that are available for you to choose from, and although this is a good thing, at the same time it is not because it can often be rather difficul...


Why Use Remote Data Backup Software?

Since computers play a larger role in the modern world, and as technology runs businesses and provides consumers instant access to anything they need, storing information has become increasingly impor...


Things That you Should Know About Remote Computer Data Storage

If you are wondering about remote computer data storage, then you should know that there are several things that you are going to need to learn about. After all, remote computer data storage is a very...


Remote Data Storage for Small Business

Big business has been using remote data storage since they began using computers. However, until recently the remote data storage companies have been priced out of the range of small business. New tec...


Account Lockout Troubleshooting and Two New Password Management Solutions from NetWrix Corporation

Table of Contents - Account Lockout Examiner - New Release and New Licensing Terms - Dealing with Password Management Issues - Self-service Password Reset -

Using an Online Data Backup Service

Today, even the average computer user can find a reason to have an online data backup service. The college student's research files and class notes, the grandmother's collection of treasured photos, t...


Know Your Options for an Offsite Data Backup

Offsite data backups include storage, such as compact discs and DVD's, memory cards, and flash memory devices including magnetic tapes, floppy discs, USB drives and zip discs. Consumers and businesses...


Using Offsite Data Backup Software

Today, the wonderful services long afforded big businesses are available to small businesses, home-based businesses and even ordinary home computers. By using offsite data backup software, any compute...


Using of mp3 Player during your day

There are many electronic gadgets that have a very important role in your life, I'll talk about the most important gadget nowadays, it's the mp3 player, I'll tell you how mp3 player can change your li...


Meet the Universal hero - Samurai Jack

The Samurai Jack cartoons may quite easily be catalogued as "weird". The dramatic accent is of a clear Asian origin, while the storyline and plot development are a blend of US and European car...


The Fulfillment Doctor... The Art Of Data Conversion

Q: We are in the process of planning our file conversion as we implement our new catalog management system. Our vendor is telling us that they normally don't write a file conversion program for mo...


Keyboard Recorder - Advanced Mouse Recorder and Key Recorder

From your work experience, you have known the trouble that you have to strike your keyboard, move and click your mouse again and again in some work processes. So you really want to save these same and...


How To Maximize Your Use Of Your Computer

Welcome, I'm The Wanderer, yes, I'm The Wanderer, I travel round and round looking here and there for a good idea. I travel the internet searching page after page looking for something usable. Once I...


Business Groups Blast Ohio Maternity Leave Proposal

Excerpt: "Business groups are on the attack against a plan to mandate that Ohio women get 12 weeks off from work when they have a baby." (AP via Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc.)...


Biopassword Gets Funding For Software That ID's You By How You Type

Source: www.dabcc.com --- Sunday, August 05, 2007 BioPassword has secured $11 million in venture financing to ramp up marketing efforts for a software product that authorizes or denies access to computer networks based on the way people type.... Visit...


Police get computerized criminal complaint system

PITTSBURGH -- Allegheny County police have logged onto a new computerized criminal complaint system that allows them to file their information ASAP...


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State curtails e-voting

California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, bowing to fears of computer fraud, Friday decertified Los Angeles County's electronic voting system and sharply curtailed the use of two other machines that California counties had hoped to use to conduct the...


Mail Notifier Firefox Add-on 0.6 (Freeware)

Firefox extension that notifies for new emails, and provides easy way to start your email client in case you have a new email...


Brian Noe: emails out to podcasters...break to take the little one to daycare, recording a bit for @

Brian Noe: emails out to podcasters...break to take the little one to daycare, recording a bit for @myn, then scouting and reviewing...


Get Involved: Help Google Deliver Email In a Gmail Video

When you send an email through Gmail, hundreds of Google engineers leap from their chairs to help deliver the message. It?s like P2P, but with bikes. They are doing a video all about it, and you can?...


Football Rankulator 2.1.0 (Demo)

Football Rankulator - create your own football computer rankings for Div 1A college football teams...


Microworld Anti Virus & Spyware Toolkit Utility 9.3.6 [8/6/2007 - 373426] (Shareware)

Microworld Antivirus Toolkit Utility scans your computer completely and provides reports of any viruses that it finds...


Hank Aaron: Unsurpassed

[From deep in the archives, published online June 20, 2001.]

I've been thinking all morning about an Iron Man, an amazingly durable baseball player. He's one of the all-time greats, remarkable not only for his talent but also for his personal grace, his decency and courage at critical moments in his career. His name is Henry Aaron.

Hammerin' Hank was my baseball hero when I was a kid. He was, in some ways, the Cal Ripken of his day.

Ripken's streak is possibly the most amazing physical and mental feat in modern sports history. This is the era of the Injured Reserve list, when bulked-up players can't play an entire week without suffering a mysterious sprain, a disabling muscle spasm or a slight tear in cartilage that doctors had previously not known was part of the human anatomy. We live in a society where workers don't think they have to show up for work every day, when their employers are forced to give them flex time to take the dog to a masseuse. And yet, during his streak, Ripken laced up his cleats and grabbed a glove for every game for 17 YEARS.

Hank Aaron was the same sort of reliable, steady, hardworking player. He grew up in the segregated South -- in Mobile, Ala. He started his pro career in the Negro Leagues, with the Indianapolis Clowns. In 1954, the year of Brown v. Board of Education, he broke into the Majors. He was skinny then, not built like a slugger at all. He hit a lot of singles and doubles. He stole bases. He hit 13 home runs his first season, 27 his second, 26 his third. They were respectable power numbers, but only in his fourth season did he reveal the extent of his ability, leading the league with 44 home runs.

I discovered him near the end of his career, when I was 10, after my grandma had given me an ancient console radio full of glowing tubes. It was a marvelous contraption that picked up strange weather reports, mysterious chatter and tinny music from distant stations whose signals had skipped off the atmosphere. It also could produce baseball games, the nightly feats of the Atlanta Braves, the closest thing we had in Florida to a home team. Hank Aaron batted third in the Braves lineup. He was 38 years old.

He'd already hit more than 600 home runs by that time, placing him third on the all-time list, behind Babe Ruth and Willie Mays. Aaron and Mays both seemed to have a shot at Ruth's record of 714 homers. Both were perennial All-Stars, but Mays was a genuine superstar, having played in the media whirl of New York. Mays supplemented his slugging with spectacular plays in center field. Aaron toiled in small markets -- Milwaukee and still-sleepy Atlanta. His statistics year to year were excellent, but in only a few seasons did he lead the league in home runs.

Mays was fading. Aaron wasn't. Aaron appeared ageless. The year he turned 40 he hit 40 home runs. He lost none of the quickness in his wrists. He could turn on almost any pitch. The radio captured the elevated murmuring of the crowd whenever Aaron came to bat. I would listen carefully for the sound of the bat hitting the ball. A home run had a certain sound. It was a sharp report. It went: TOK. The announcer would shout, "There's a drive. Deep to left! Going, going . . . gone!"

Aaron surpassed Mays, and bore down on Ruth.

Some people didn't like it. They didn't want to see Ruth's record broken -- especially by a black man.

At the defining moment of his career, Aaron was targeted by racists. He reportedly got thousands of vicious letters. Some included death threats. He had to be escorted by guards from stadium to stadium.

In a recent interview, he said, "I didn't enjoy myself. . . . God had given me the ability to play baseball, and people in this country kind of chipped away at me. So, it was tough. And all of those things happened simply because I was a black person."

At the time, he kept his feelings to himself. No one knew what he was going through.

He hit his 715th home run in April 1974, shrugging off two overly enthusiastic fans who mobbed him as he rounded the bases. His triumphant moment led to strenuous arguments about the significance of his accomplishment. The nay-sayers said that his feat was merely one of -- egad -- endurance.

He wasn't the greatest home run hitter of all time, it was said, he was just durable! (Just an Iron Man!)

Aaron's sin was that he showed up every day, healthy, and played great, for years and years, and hit more home runs and had more runs-batted-in than anyone who ever played the game.

Baseball fans obsess over numbers. Yes, it's true that Aaron had more chances at the plate than Ruth. At-bat for at-bat, Ruth was, without question, the more prolific home run hitter -- the greater slugger.

But Aaron deserved better. He never quite got the adulation that other baseball heroes have gotten. One fact stands out: Two and a half decades after Aaron retired with 755 home runs, we're still patiently waiting for someone to get anywhere near his record. McGwire, Bonds, Griffey or some other great player could break it. They just have to be Iron Men, for years and years, steady, strong, and keep making that sound -- TOK! -- come from the radio.

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[From my column of April 2, 2006]

Baseball is an easy game: All you need is an open field, a bat, a ball, a couple of gloves, a syringe, some Deca Durabolin, some Winstrol, some human growth hormone, some testosterone decanoate, some norbolethone, some trenbolone and some of the fertility drug Clomid.

Play ball!

Also, fellas, you might want some acne medication for the zits busting out all over your back, and a "protective cup" to ward off injuries to your (sorry to be blunt) steroid-shrunken testicles. Yes, if you use too many 'roids your