Category: News

Bad Computer Habits can Lead to Problems

Post author By web gangsta
Post date November 3, 2010

Any problem can be screwed up more by computer

A few years ago, one of Web Watch’s computer hard drives crashed.

We’re not just talking about a minor “ooh, we lost a boot sector” thing, where we could boot to a different drive and copy the files off.

No, we’re talking an extreme catastrophic event where we lost the entire drive. It was physically unable to spin up, making data recovery rather impossible on our own. Luckily, we made a few phone calls and found a data recovery company that was able to rebuild the drive’s data and copy it to a new disc.

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Doctors agree – Parents are letting their kids watch way too much TV

Post author By web gangsta
Post date November 1, 2010

I'm not a babysitter but I play one on TV
I’m not a babysitter but I play one on TV

Pediatricians have studied almost 9,000 preschoolers and have determined that 2/3 OF US PRESCHOOLERS ARE WATCHING MORE THAN 2 HOURS OF TV A DAY, which is higher than what the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends.

Tags medical, News, parenting, survey

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Most people would rather touch a public toilet seat than shake hands with a sneezer

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 28, 2010

The Dread Pirate Toilet Seat

Are you scared of germs?

How do you feel when you meet someone who just came out of the bathroom and you have to shake their hand? Especially if their hand is still just a little damp from not being dried properly?

Say it with us: “Eeewww.”

You don’t want to touch anything in a public bathroom that’s wet, right?

Now take the same situation, and instead of “bathroom”, think “sneeze”. You’re about to shake someone’s hand when they abruptly sneeze into it — then proudly present it for the handshake. How do you graciously back out of that one? It’s not like you can immediately switch to the Howie Mandel fistbump^tm.

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2010 Holiday Shopping Trends

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 27, 2010

What Would Jesus Buy?

As we round the corner for the holiday season’s shopping sprees, researchers have gone out and announced their PREDICTIONS FOR THE 2010 HOLIDAY SHOPPING TRENDS.

According to the National Retail Federation’s 2010 Holiday Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, consumers reported the following:

Tags 10 Things, Christmas, holidays, News, shopping, survey

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Scrotal cancer is not a laughing matter (Chim Chim Cher-ee)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 23, 2010

Mary Poppins poster

So the other day, Web Watch read an article entitled CANCER IS A MAN-MADE DISEASE, STUDY CLAIMS, that talked about how cancer was a relatively rare occurance back in the day.

The article said that while DINOSAURS HAD CANCER, cancer was generally considered relatively rare before the 17th century. For example, scientists found just one mummy from the Dakhleh Oasis that had rectal cancer about 1,600-1,800 years ago, while today cancer is said to be responsible for 1-in-8 deaths.

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Johnson & Johnson, Disney top the Corporate Social Responsibilty Index

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 19, 2010

Ashoka's Social Entrepreneurship Series presents Architect of Corporate Responsibility: The Story of Alice Tepper Marlin and Social Accountability International
Ashoka’s Social Entrepreneurship Series presents Architect of Corporate Responsibility: The Story of Alice Tepper Marlin and Social Accountability International

Being corporately responsibile is not necessarily an easy thing to do, let along doing so and being recognized for it.

Harder still, is coming out on top of such a list of recognition.

Yet, that’s exactly what JOHNSON & JOHNSON and THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY have done this year in this year’s CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INDEX.

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Things Gay People Like

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 16, 2010

Passion Play - A Gay Romantic Game for 2
Passion Play – A Romantic Gay Game for Two

Dating site OK CUPID regularly digs into their database of registered users who are looking for love to see if there are any interesting trends to report. For example, remember when Web Watch wrote about HOW TO WRITE THE PERFECT DATING EMAIL? Yeah, that was from OK Cupid.

In other words, when it comes to reporting what real-world daters are really going through, they have a good idea of what’s going on. Which is why, when OK Cupid decided to look at GAY DATING TRENDS vs STRAIGHT DATING TRENDS, you have to trust that they know what they’re talking about.

Tags 10 Things, News, Relationships, survey, website

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How to Get Ahead at Work: Sleep with the Boss

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 15, 2010

Should I Sleep with the Boss?: And 99 Other Questions about Having a Great Career

7%.

That’s the percentage of people who have admitted to SLEEPING WITH THEIR BOSS IN ORDER TO ADVANCE THEIR CAREER.

Let’s repeat that: 7%

Do you know what 7% looks like? Sure, you could do the easy math and say that it’s just 7 people out of your office of 100 employees.

That’s not so bad.

But if you work in a smaller office — let’s say an office of around 14 people… then take another look. 7% is the same as 1 in 14 people. So you have to ask yourself – which one of those people are doing it? You know they are – statistics don’t lie. Besides, 17% of those surveyed said that sleeping with the boss was perfectly fine.

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