Brian is the president/CEO and majority shareholder for semo.net and TotallyFabricated. A lifetime resident of Southeast Missouri, Brian has continued to bring the best and most advanced technologies to the area.
Semo.net Surfers were stunned by the pitching and bats of Bluff Transmission last night and were beaten 11 to 2 last night at McLane Park in the Championship Game. The semo.net surfers won 2nd place.
Bluff Transmission is coached by Billy Lawrence, Bud Rushin & Ben Mense
semo.net Surfers are coached by Mike Coleman & Brian Becker
Congratulation to all the players during last night’s semi-finals and final game.
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Yesterday, the Trust for America’s Health organization published it’s State Obesity Rankings and its hard to miss that the Bible Belt is overweight. The swath across the mid-section of the United States that are among the fattest adults is unmistakable with Missouri weighing in at 13th largest. Read the rest of this entry »
Dvorak laments about the fragility of the Internet as displayed by Michael Jackson Death.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2349511,00.asp
Microsoft Announces Pricing for Windows 7
Upgrades from $119 to $219 for XP and Vista. Pre-ordering available, but for a limited time only.
Microsoft Vine…the next big thing?
Like Google pushing aside Yahoo and WebCrawler, Microsoft Vine says “step aside” to Facebook and Twitter.
Mentioned on Topix? WHAT?
People are constantly asking how to get their information off of Topix…it just isn’t possible unless it is slanderous…and then it is difficult.
Just after Memorial Day, a story brewed that didn’t seem to get much airplay. A woman had a 3×5 foot flag hanging behind her desk in her office, an office she shared with three other supervisors. She came to work one day and was told the flag had been taken down because it was offensive to several employees.
For the entire story go to: Fox News
The city will be using a maintenance window from 5:30 to 6:30am on Wednesday morning to reboot some equipment and all Cable Internet customers will experience between 10 and 30 minutes of down time.
After every technical problem a customer has with our company, our system automatically sends out a survey to the customer asking for their feedback. We can count on one negative comment each week, but the amazing thing is that people go out of their way to express their appreciation to our Support Agents.
Here is a sample of the comments we received this week:
SUPPORT AGENT: Bridgett (received an Excellent rating)
“The “tech” I talked to was very helpful. She talked me through hooking up my dial-up internet, adding a desktop icon, and gave me an estimated timeline for when my DSL might be up and running again.”
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If you enjoy a good baseball game, then I strongly suggest you contact your local parks department and find out when games are played in your local area (in Poplar Bluff games are played at McLane Park from 5:30-9:30 Monday-Friday). For the baseball fan, watching the 8 – 14 year old youth play the game with such enthusiasm is inspiring.
You will see a wonderful display of baseball talent and future stars. You will see the joy of victory, the sadness of defeat and the amazing revelation that snacks after a game unifies all the participants.
So even if you don’t have a child or grandchild in the baseball program, I strongly urge you to come out and enjoy America’s favorite past time: Baseball!
Microsoft’s Project Natal
Project Natal is a new controller for the XBox 360 that uses a 3d camera, depth motion sensors and voice recognition to control your games. This takes interaction to a whole new level. 
Microsoft Windows 7 Release Date Set For Oct 22
MS will release W7 just in time for the holdiay shoppers. Though there are rumors about MS considering a discounted price for Vista users who “need” to upgrade to a viable operating system, MS has not given any details about the plans.
Kids Programming Class
Ben (10) & Jack (8) Becker will be teaching a kids programming class starting next Tuesday (June 8) using the Scratch programming language developed by MIT.
New Image Search Engine
Not using keywords, but actual images, this new search engine uses recognition software to find similar images on the net. For now they are touting it for copyright infringement, but it could be used to find where that photo of you in college has been posted.
There’s still time to sign up for the Kids Programming Class in June. Your child, age 8 through 11, will learn how to program your computer with the language called Scratch, developed by MIT. Kids can program games like this one developed and designed by Jack Becker:
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You’ve got a long three day weekend, plenty of time to kick back, bar-b-que & enjoy family time. But this Memorial Day Weekend, you should at least spend one day just getting dirty, wet & muddy.
Brick’s Off Road Park is open this Saturday, Sunday & Monday for a great time. Great trails and plenty of mud and lots of new friends await you at Brick’s, the premier off road park in Southeast Missouri. And, even if you don’t have an ATV or 4×4 vehicle, you can still enjoy watching these people do crazy things on motorized toys!
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