This is one of those rare moments, the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the year “11″ (2011) that makes extra special this original commemoration of Armistice Day and the additional recognition for military veterans. Let’s observe a moment of silence at this time for our servicemen and servicewomen who [...]
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Welcome to 2011. Although the modern celebration of New Year’s Day typically involves a lot of commercial ventures and advertising and party-going, the roots of the holiday predates this by several centuries.
Today is Veterans Day, a moment in time to commemorate the military veterans who have served faithfully in the duty to the country. When it was initially enacted to commemorate the anniversary of Armistice Day, it had been proclaimed by President Woodrow Wilson for honoring American soldiers in World War I, but since then, it [...]
Apple’s [AAPL] lockstep dance with AT&T [T] as its exclusive 3G service provider may be ending, with Verizon [VZ] showing up to the dance hall seemingly first. So what’s a mobile data services consumer going to do?
Have Fun! Happy Fourth of July, folks (at the very least, this should be applicable to our American readers)! Get your game on, with the extended weekend being celebrated across the U.S. Or get your barbie fired up, for you fans of BBQ grilling. Or just relax and let other people do things for you! [...]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day (Lá Fhéile Pádraig)! March 17 is the observance of this Irish holiday, which has transformed to a worldwide secular marketing and merchandising day but which originally began as a Catholic holiday commemorating the life and death of Saint Patrick, one of the patron saints of Ireland. Although Saint Patrick was not Irish [...]
Unlike the cryptically mysterious origin(s) of Wife Appreciation Day (which some people are alleging doesn’t actually exist (seemingly mostly from menfolk, as far as we can tell)), Talk Like a Pirate Day not only has a more definitive history but an “official” site dedicated to it. Quite a festive, yet seemingly-but-not-quite-random-kind-of-holiday, Talk Like a Pirate [...]
Curious, a recently created(?) holiday for appreciating wives that does not have any readily available information about it… Today is supposedly the day for 2009, and it has been rumored to be a day during which husbands should contemplate how they appreciate their wives and think of doing something creative and nice for them. N.B. [...]
At sunset tonight (September 18, 2009), the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah begins, indicating the Jewish New Year. It is the first of the Jewish high holidays and ends at sunset on September 20, 2009. The rest of the Ten Days of Repentance continue until Yom Kippur, its last day. This may affect some of [...]
Remember when I just had to get an Xbox 360 Elite Edition to replace my first Xbox 360 that unfortunately suffered a RROD event? Well, Microsoft [MSFT] has definitely come a long way since then, offering to correct their RROD warranty policies to reflect the wider impact of various hardware failure conditions. Now, to really [...]
