A Little Bit More to Peanut Corporation of America: Voluntary Recall of Its Own: Hot on the heels of the King Nut and Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) investigations for the peanut butter Salmonella contaminations with their voluntary recalls, further tracking of the PCA product distribution revealed impact on a consumer-facing foodstuffs company: Kellogg Company [...]
January 2009
In a heart-wrenching (and stock trading halt) turn of events, Apple’s [AAPL] Steve Jobs announced today that he will be stepping aside for a medical leave of absence, at least until June 2009. Remember when I tossed out a few possible organ systems that Steve may be struggling with? Well, since that post, quite a [...]
A Little Bit More to Voluntary Peanut Butter Recall: Salmonella Involved: Yesterday, the company involved in the manufacturing of the rebranded King Nut peanut butter products involved in the current Salmonella outbreak issued its own voluntary recall: Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) has its announcement available on the FDA site. In addition to the King [...]
Just as last year’s echos of the Salmonellosis deaths are still ringing in our ears, this year has already started off with a new series of Salmonellosis cases. On January 8, 2009, the CDC posted a bulletin concerning a new outbreak of Salmonellosis, this time due to the Salmonella serotype Typhimurium. Unfortunately, there was no detail [...]
A Little Bit: The FDA has posted a voluntary recall announcement from King Nut, a peanut butter distributor, of their food service distributed King Nut branded peanut butter. The claim is that no other King Nut product is affected, including direct-to-consumer items. However, keep in mind that food service distribution items may be sold to [...]
After a grueling morning of hard, back-breaking work, I came home and sat down in the rec room, picked up the nearest Xbox 360 controller, and fired up the ‘console. And, lo and behold… The infamous Red Ring of Death (RROD) seized hold of my hapless Xbox 360 console, with a E 74 error message. [...]
As reported by Larry Hryb (Major Nelson) earlier, the Halo Wars release date has been changed to release dateS, and they’ve been revised for the different markets: Worldwide demo release: February 5, 2009 Pacific Rim (including Japan and Asia) full game release: February 26, 2009 Europe full game release: February 27, 2009 North America full [...]
There were a few items announced during today’s Microsoft [MSFT] keynote at CES 2009… like the upcoming Windows 7 and a new version of Windows Mobile and even a few updates for the Zune… but the thing that gamers have been wondering about is the upcoming Halo Wars game. The news today is that it will [...]
Unveiled today at CES 2009, Palm’s [PALM] Pre certainly caught my attention. As you may know, my adventures with the Palm Centro has yet to reach its one-year anniversary, but I’ve been a long-time Palm device user (like the original Palm Pilot and Palm III, and then the Treo 650), so while I’ve certainly thought [...]
