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ESPN.com - MLB - Rocket relaunch: Clemens to pitch for Astros

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Clemens to pitch for Astros Sweet Jesus.

Medium Footwear

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Medium Footwear is a beautiful flash site, and the sneakers are equally beautiful and clearly inspired by the classics of sneaker design.

qbert.com

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Why does qbert.com resolve to Sony Pictures?

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | 'Chemical weapons' found in Iraq

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BBC NEWS: ‘Chemical weapons’ found in Iraq Woah. I think the funny thing about this is how dissapointed it must make one of the political parties in this country.

SuicideGirls Live Burlesque Tour coming to Atlanta

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Of course, I’m also excited to check out the SuicideGirls Live Burlesque Tour when they are in town on January 28th. I’ve never been to a burlesque show before.

William Gibson Book Tour for the Paperback edition of PR comes to Atlanta

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William Gibson is going to be in Atlanta February 13th.

Saddam's an OutKast: Hey Allah!

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Saddam’s an OutKast: Hey Allah! Hahahahahaahaha.

TiVo to Go -- Finally!!! | PVRblog

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PVRBlog discusses the new TiVo to Go features that TiVo announced at CES today. Sounds great to me. Of course, with some hacking you can do this today with a series 1 TiVo, but it’s great that they are going to bring this to the masses. I just wish that I didn’t have to wait until Fall 2004 for the feature.

Philips Mirror TV

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Philips Mirror TV has to be the coolest idea for home electronics that I have seen in a while. I must have one or two.

Headline news from Sky News - Witness the event

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Tom Cruise as Tony Stark?

Thunderbird is also a go here.

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Like Pete, I have switched to Thunderbird as my primary mail client on both my Windows and Mac OS X machines. It works, it is fast, and it is the same on both platforms without punishing me in order to do so. Worth checking out.

MacMinute: Missing Sync for Danger hiptop coming in Feb.

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Missing Sync for Danger hiptop coming in Feb.

iSync plug-ins

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I got my machine back from Apple when I returned to Atlanta after the Christmas holiday. They ended up replacing not only the hard drive, but the display, display bezel, keyboard and some other parts. This was odd to me because I only took it in for the hard drive issue. The new keyboard is nice though, I had worn shiny spots on a bunch of the keys on the old one.

As you might expect, I had to reinstall virtually everything after having the hard drive replaced. It made me realize just how great I think iSync is. My Safari bookmarks and contacts were on the machine in a few minutes, and it saved me the terrible task of rebuilding these things. This also made me realize that Apple needs to extend iSync with an API that third parties can take advantage of in their own applications. It would be great to have my NetNewsWire subscriptions or Transmit bookmarks move over in the same way. I went to the iSync feedback form and asked. I wonder if I shall ever receive?

NFL STREET - EA SPORTS BIG

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Wow, NFL STREET from EASports Big line, looks like it might be the next killer Football video game. The gameplay looks very fluid, the character modeling is impressive, and the arenas look very well done.

2004 in da house.

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Merry New Year.

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Here’s a screenshot of the pop-up blocker that will be built into Internet Exploder in Windows XP SP2.

BobaFred: Home

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Bobafred: How Not To Meet Women: Part I.

AT&T Wireless: no wonder

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Jeez, it’s no wonder people are leaving AT&T Wireless in droves now that number portability is in play.(Assuming they can actually get out with all the problems AT & T has had releasing numbers.) The customer service aspect of their company is so fundamentally flawed it is ridiculous.

A couple of months ago, I switched from their old school TDMA service to GPRS, complete with shiny new smartphone. I have had an account with them for six years. In the switchover, they lost all of the billing settings that I had set up with them, but never mentioned that this would be the case. A month ago, I got a call from them saying that my account was overdue. I immediately paid the balance, but was confused as to why they didn't automatically bill me, like they had been doing for six years. I was informed that I had to log into their customer service Web site to set this up, and that they could not do the set up(re-setup from my perspective) over the phone. So I went to the site, and attempted to log into the system with the username and password I had been using all along. No dice. I was informed that I had to re-register for the customer service Web site. What? I have had an account for six years, you have all of my information. So I attempted to re-register. I was then informed that an account for my phone number already existed. Well, duh, I've had an account for six years. I was then informed that I should call a customer service number if I received this message. Ok, I'll call customer service and clear this up. I called and navigated through their voice activated menu system to the correct option. "We're sorry, we cannot answer your call right now. Please call us back at a later time."

What? Oh, I wonder why the number could possibly be so busy? I am currently printing a number portability checklist. Goodbye AT & T, and thanks for nothing.

Nick Bradbury: FeedDemon IS golden!

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Big up to Nick Bradbury for getting FeedDemon to Gold Master status. Should be for sale next week. I still wish NetNewswire was available on my WinXP machines, there is nothing that compares to it, but FeedDemon comes the closest in my opinion.

Match Mobile

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What is Match Mobile? How does it work? Hmmmm. Interesting idea, but I am not sure that the US market is ready for it.

XMLConf: XML Conference 2003

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Atom in Depth is a slide show going into some detail about Atom. I only had time for the first 17 slides right now, but I understand the formats, elements and thinking behind Atom better already.

I Ching Online

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I Ching Online

The Seven Deadly Sins revealed

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The Seven Deadly Sins

ESPN.com - MLB - Pettitte bolts Yanks for $31.5M deal with Astros

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Why Andy, Why?

Macromedia - MPSB03-07 Security Patch available for ColdFusion MX and JRun 4.0 Web Services DoS

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There is an important Security Patch for ColdFusion MX and JRun available today. It patches the Web services framework, and you need it if you have Web Services that are publicly accessible.