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A Cartoonist’s Venture Into the World of E-Books Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, makes some really great points about ebooks.

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MLB Owners OK Eliminating 2 Teams. The fallout from over-expansion in professional sports has begun. These leagues have been expanding willy nilly over the last ten years especially. I firmly believe that a storied franchise like the Twins, which was competitive even this season (they came in second place), shouldn’t be considered for contraction. Instead, they should be looking at the teams who were the most recently added, and they should look at long term viability rather than attendance from this year. It would be a shame to get rid of the Minnesota franchise when both Florida franchises are a joke.

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Small Step for iPod, Giant Leap for Apple “What Apple needs is Windows compatibility for the iPod.”

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Atlanta Elections 2001 results. In my local city council district (Post 5), we managed to vote in a new city councilwoman. I’m very happy about this, as our incumbent was not very in tune with what is going on in our neighborhood.

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New Fugazi album good. (Still only $10.)

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On a similar subject. I ordered DSL on August 24th. Bellsouth turned on the line on September 10th. Today is November 6th. I still don’t have the equipment from Earthlink. The last time I called (last week), they said that September 11th had screwed up their ordering system and that it should ship out immediately. Yeah right. Did I mention that it’s November 6th?

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I have been using Mac OS X on my Mac laptop since August when it returned from its magical journey into the netherworld.(I really need to write up the whole saga of my hotel theft and how it ended up getting resolved.) Today, for the first time in ages, I booted the machine into Mac OS 9 to use a USB device that has no OS X drivers. Mac OS 9 now feels old fashioned to me. It’s slower, by far, on the same hardware. Things crash, something that just doesn’t happen to me on X. Networking is not really as robust or as fast. It’s interesting how accustomed to a new technology you can become in two plus months.

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Ars Technica: The State of Transmeta. I think that it’s interesting, or at least worth noting, that there has been a shift in this industry due to the dominance of some key players in each market segment. Emerging companies, to some extent, can at best get the big players to take notice of what they are doing and get the big players to shift their strategy to encompass what the emerging company is doing. We heard so much about Transmeta, partly because of Linus Torvalds' involvement, and how it was going to cause innovation in the portable space. We saw Intel have to up their pace of innovation briefly in order to head this off. So, in effect, they did cause innovation in the portable space.

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Let me be among the first to congratulate Arizona for their win against the Yankees tonight. Both teams played their hearts out during this series, and although I didn’t get the results I wanted, it was great baseball to watch as a fan. To the Yankees, you’ve been great for us the last five years, and no one even expected you to get by Oakland this year. You beat Oakland and Seattle, and played a great World Series, Thanks.

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The song “Chop Suey” off of System of a Down’s newest cd is set on repeat in my kitchen right now. It’s got this really interesting vibe to it that, for some reason, reminds me of an opera.(mixed with some very heavy instruments)

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As an aside about the below, boy was I yelled at by Hank once. He was doing two night’s worth of shows with the Beastie Boys at Roseland in New York. A friend hooked me up with backstage passes to both shows, and the first night, Ice Cube made an appearance with the opening band, whose name I can’t remember right now, but they were proteges of his somehow. While the Beasties were on stage that night, Hank was standing next to me watching the show. The Beasties were really kicking it, and I turned to Hank to say something about how great they were. Hank interrupted me saying, “Don’t talk to me, I watching the fucking show.” Then he walked away.

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I AM 43% PUNK.
(via Dansays)

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I’m speechless after tonight’s Yankee win. Two nights in a row? wow.

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FINAL: Yankees 4, Diamondbacks 3. What a game. I can’t remember a game through this whole stretch since 1996 as a Yankees fan where I was more on the edge of my seat. Talk about character, talk about never giving up, talk about finding a way to get it done. Still a long three game series to go, but it would have been quite a different story without a win tonight.

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Macworld: First Look: iPod I’ve kept my mouth shut while listening to other’s criticisms of this device. Let me say now, however, that I have owned a Creative Nomad Jukebox, and the differences are huge. The Nomad Jukebox eats batteries very quickly, and I got about two hours of playback at the most out of it. The interface on it for navigating music is sometimes maddening, other times barely usable. Finally, transferring music takes forever. Sure it has huge capacity, but it has all sorts of things wrong with it. I look forward to using something that tranfers the music more quickly, lasts longer, and has a better interface. (I had a RioVolt for a few weeks before it got stolen, and it had the same interface issue when there was a lot of music to navigate.)

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D-backs go up 2-0 in series. What can you say? Randy Johnson was incredible tonight. Now it goes back to New York. We’ll see…

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I spent five hours yesterday as part of a group of volunteers planting trees at Bessie Brahnam Park near my new house. Boy am I sore today. The Georgia clay we were planting into was severly compressed and seemed like rock at times.

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Not much updating going on here the last few days. I’ve been doing a bunch of things, but mainly coming to grips with where I’m at in my life right now and trying to decide which way I want to go now. I’m sure this whole process is something that everyone who gets laid off goes through after their layoff. I’ll be more active here this week as I ramp myself back up and begin looking into both contract work and full time jobs. First things first though, a revamped resume is job one for the early part of this week.

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Apple - iPod

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Joe Torre: “To me, the NY on our caps means more than baseball this year.”

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They are playing “New York, New York” in the Bronx right now because the Yankees are going to their fourth straight World Series. Looking back, three weeks ago, no one expected them to be here, but they came through. That’s character.

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When did blogdex redesign? The summaries are very helpful.

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Yankees win 3-1 by a walkoff home run. Man, great baseball by both teams tonight. On a separate note, I can’t believe how humble these players are. Think about this, they have basically dominated the sport of baseball for the last five years. I don’t hear any of them, not a one, making any claims about how great their team is. They basically let their playing do the talking. Some others seem to feel like they can assign any negative emotion they want to the Yankees, but I haven’t seen anything that resembles what he describes in the dugout or in print. I haven’t missed a game yet. Get a grip ya sore loser. The Yankees have character, more than you are giving them credit for.

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Yankees edge Mariners to take 2-0 ALCS lead. Works for me. Don’t believe the media’s attempts to now convince you that this series is all but over. The Mariners are a strong franchise, just like the Yankees, with character. It won’t be over until the last out.

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ESPN.com has become “msn.espn.go.com” over the years. What’s next? “yahoo.msn.aol.cnn.time.espn.go.com”? Come on now people.