Wilco has a preview of their new CD, A ghost is born, up on their site. It’s due to be released on June 22nd. I was pretty disappointed that they cancelled their set at Coachella, but considering the circumstances, there wasn’t much else they could do.

Based on this post it looks like Blogger is about to unveil a new version. No details of what this new version might entail beyond a redesign and “additional features”, but they haven’t released a major version since Google bought them.

I’ve been meaning to mention that my brother Chris' most recent band, Husky, has their debut EP up on the iTunes Music Store. (iTMS link) Check it out, “Jukebox” seems to be the song that is turning people’s heads.

MLB is putting the Spiderman logo on bases and pitching rubbers? That is messed up. Where do you draw the line? Personally, as a lifelong baseball junkie, I am mortified by this decision. This, in my mind, was what seperated baseball and football from NASCAR. Update: The Yankees are refusing to go along with MLB’s plan. Good for them, like I said previously, you have to draw the line somewhere.

Back from Coachella. I really enjoyed it. More on that later.

Mark comments on the death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan . In this age of the bling bling and atheletes who seem more interested in “getting theirs” than anything else, Pat Tillman did what he thought was right. Having said that, my thoughts are with his family, as they are with the families of all the servicemen that we have lost in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Gmail Gems (Hints and tips for Gmail users.)

Roger Ebert reviews Shaolin Soccer.

The Onion A.V. Club interviews the brilliant Ricky Gervais from the BBC’s “The Office.”

Apparently, this guy wants a gMail account. I just got one through the generosity of the blogger.com folks. Nothing to report yet. Oh, and I did not lie to that guy, nor is that a picture of me.

Jon Hicks has a fascinating look behind the redesign of the Thunderbird logo. I have been using Thunderbird on Mac OS X for a few months now, and have been extra happy with it since they made pinstripe the default theme a couple of weeks ago.

Friends of the Beltline. This would be good for the city, no matter which way you dice it. Seriously.

I had been holding off on a new Powerbook for the last month or so. My first-generation 12 inch has been feeling a bit overcrowded from a resource and speed perspective recently, and I had been thinking that I would go up to the 15 inch. Apple, of course, updated their line this morning. I would buy another 12 inch, if they offered the Radeon video chipset for it because I love the form factor. They however, decided to limit the chipset to the NVidia. Time to start figuring out if I can afford the 15" that I want.

Kevin Byrd took a trip to the Atlanta Botonical Gardens over the weekend and took a lovely picture. I took my parents there a couple of weeks ago when they were in town. If you live in or visit Atlanta, I think that the gardens are a must see.

Well, it has been seven weeks since my last cigarette. I’ve executed on my game plan almost perfectly so far. I knew in advance how hard it would be, but until you are actually in the withdrawal symptoms, it is difficult to gauge just how hard they are to cope with. I accidentally went down a stage in the patch system two weeks early, and that may be what is causing some of my current discomfort, but I only have one more week of patches left. I will be very happy when this discomfort stage is over, and I am already feeling much better than I was a couple of weeks ago. I’ve managed, so far, to keep my weight gain to a minimum. I’m hoping that, as soon as I am through the extra hunger stage, that I can trim off the four pounds rapidly.

Well, here we go again. Tonight, the Yankees begin their regular season series with the most hated Red Sox. I predict that the Yankees will win ten out of the nineteen meetings during the regular season.

RIAA’s Nasty Easter Egg. Seriously, you have to be kidding me. Okay, let me give you an incentive to go back to “sharing” your MP3’s with your friends.

Cameron Childress, a good friend and longtime co-worker, has started a ColdFusion-centric blog. He is one of the top CF developers, in my opinion, making his site a must-read, assuming that he manages to stay focused and update it on a regular basis:-)

GUI Galaxy has returned, with a very nice modular redesign.

In other sports related news, Mike Mussina became the 100th big league pitcher to win 200 games yesterday.

Meg is not eating sushi anymore because they freeze the fish. I would submit that, if we knew everything that was done to our food before it made it’s way onto our plates and into our supermarkets, we would eat differently than we currently do. I, however, just love sushi.

Phil Mickelson won The 2004 Masters yesterday. For those of you who aren’t golf fans, Phil has for years been one of the best, and most consistent, golfers on the tour. He, however, had never won one of the four major championships. Last year, he had a bit of a rough year, but he has managed to come back strong this year. This weekend, at the Masters, he seemed like a different guy, and he finally pulled one out. I know that everyone on our team is extremely happy for him.

Torre gets extension This is great news, Joe Torre is the greatest Yankee manager of the modern era, and we are blessed to have him at the helm for three more years.

DNS Stuff: DNS tools, WHOIS, tracert, ping, and other network tools. Really useful web interface to DNS tools. (Thanks w00t.)

Claim vs. Fact: Condoleezza Rice’s Opening Statement Now granted, I like to think of myself as generally nonpartisan, and this is from an organization that skews pretty hard to the left, but this stuff does really bother me. It seems like this whole 9/11 commission thing has turned into this massive, awful, he said/he said/she said/Bush said/Clinton said thing. It’s all about ass-covering and grandstanding, and not about learning practical lessons from the tragedy. This does a disrespect to the the people who died, the city that was forever changed, and the rest of us, who would benefit from the lessons learned.