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We come from a hotel in Palo Alto CA. We just got done with the HP Road Show – Converged Infrastructure. This week on the 5 Tech Things:

• Large File Programs. Josh Lowensen looks at your options.
• OnLive puts gaming in the cloud
• William Shatner creates MyOuterSpace.com
• University of Wyoming studys in Video Games
• The Intel i7 – Why you should think about getting a 6 core processor

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Not too many movies can get away with rewriting the franchises’ history without people grumbling left and right. JJ Abrams did just that. And best part – it made sense.

I didn’t go to the IMAX . I decided that it was best just to see it in the theater. I wasn’t dissapointed. Yeah, at first I was getting a little preturbed as to how they were trompling over the timeline like a mad rush to a 50% off sale. Once the story started to unfold, it all made sense. It also made sense why Leonard Nimoy was in this movie and William Shatner was not.

Story was about the beginnings of the crew – Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Sulu, Uhura and Chekov. In the first 5 minutes we witness the birth of James Tiberius Kirk and introduce the Romulan “Nero”. The Romulans were in search for Spock (ironic, eh?) because Romulus was blown up and they felt he was the key. Figured they would exact revenge on Vulcan and Earth.

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