One thing that seems to be the rage lately is video games. It seems that every child I know plays them and I was surprised to learn that many adults play them too. This news was brought home to me when I caught one of my bosses playing a game at work.

Many people love video games and defend them to the end. I for one don’t play them and would not tell anyone else what to do. I do however don not like them to be played at work. After all, I have to work and others should work as hard as I do.

From what I hear, the new tablets are all the rage. No one seems to be interested in buying desktop computers any more, and now even laptops may become obsolete if the tablets perform as well as promised.

Of course, Apple Computer introduced the concept with their iPad, but other companies have recently come out with their own designs. The Motorola Xoom is priced competitively and has some additional features not provided on the Apple model, such as a camera function on both the front and the back of the table, and a flash on the one in the back.

The price tag seems to range between $800 and $1,200, which is the same ballpark as a good laptop. I’ll have to go to the local electronics store and see them for myself. I might want one.

This was on a Facebook profile of one of my friends. I told him I was going to steal it!

As always, there are some really mean people in the world. The latest example of this is hackers who are using the swine flu epidemic to spread their viruses. Many people have been affected by this latest scam. I hope that everyone will be very careful about the sites they choose to visit and the e-mails they want to open. I always say that its better to be safe than sorry.

I received an email that described the details about what causes the computer attacks known as “denial of service”. I thought it was interesting and so I decided to pass along the gist of the article. Whenever you receive this message, this is what may be happening.

These are attacks on a server by hackers. They write codes that take over people’s computers and cause them to send repeated requests to a certain server. The server is in turn overloaded and can no longer perform its job. That’s a very basic explanation, but it’s the main source of the problem. Unfortunately, there is not a whole lot you can do to prevent it except for making sure your computer is guarded. I hope you have security measures in place!