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February 17, 2004
A-Rod to the Bronx

So, take that you Red Sox fans. Yep, that’s right, we got A-Rod. Remember? The guy you wanted to get so much that you were willing to get rid of No-mar and Manny? Yeah, him. Take a look at our lineup now. Seriously. The series between the bosox and the yanks this year are going to be off the chain.

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February 14, 2004
February 13, 2004
Old Wired T-Shirt

I keep seeing eTech posts about this great old Wired T-shirt. I have one, and have worn it to the point of it falling apart. For a few years, it was my favorite t-shirt, bought during Wired’s heyday. I wish there was some way to repair or replace it.

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February 12, 2004
13 Reasons To Use Firefox Over IE

13 Reasons To Use Firefox Over IE I switched, a couple of days ago after Firefox was released, my default browser to Firefox from Safari on my Mac OS X laptop. For the most part, I like Firefox better right now. The most striking of these to me are command-up arrow and command-down arrow. The biggest advantage, in my opinion, of Firefox is the extensibility, I love Chris Pederick’s Web Developer toolbar especially, and have played with some of the other extensions that are available.

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February 11, 2004
Maurice Clarett singlehandedly destroys college football

Well, it looks like it is certain now that Maurice Clarett will be in this year’s NFL draft. Quick background for you non-football folks. This guy was a pretty impressive talent his freshman year at Ohio State. Since then, he has gotten into all sorts of trouble, and been kicked off their team. By the NFL’s current rules, he was still too young to enter the draft, but he sued, and won, based on antitrust rules. This is bad for the NFL, and for college football, as it opens the door for more underclassmen to enter the draft. An excellent example of how this could gut college football can currently be found in the college basketball arena. NBA teams now draft players based on potential, even if they are not currently ready to play at the NBA level. The college basketball landscape is virtually devoid of stars now, because players are going to the NBA straight out of high school. The NFL will almost surely suffer the same fate over time. This will be complicated by the small size of the NFL roster and the amount of injuries that occur in a season. NFL teams cannot generally afford to have roster spots being taken up by players not yet ready to play at the NFL level.

In essence, Clarett had nowhere else to go, and no other choice but to sue the NFL, but he has opened up a pandora's box tha the NFL has managed to keep closed for a very long time. I despise the long term effects his actions will have. I hope that no NFL team drafts him, although I know that that will not happen. I will not attend a game in which he plays, nor will I watch one, or even the highlights of one, on TV. I may decide, also, to boycott whichever franchise drafts him. I can't really have my say in this matter in any other way.

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Falcons raise prices

The Falcons, who were a very mediocre 5-11 last season, and looked even worse than that record might imply for most of the season, raised ticket prices today. Mr. Blank, if you were going to raise ticket prices, you should have done it last year when spirits were high about the team, and you had good will to spare. You burned through a lot of that good will last season, and the team looked like crap for the most part, and now you want us to pay more for the product? I’m guessing that this won’t go over well.

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February 10, 2004
Safari 1.2 changes list

David Hyatt has a list of stuff in Safari 1.2 up on his blog type thing today. In the future, I will only be referring to blog type things, and no longer directly to blogs because, after over six years of my own blog type thing, I don’t rightly know what a blog is.

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February 9, 2004
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