Archive for May, 2005

Everything You Thought You Knew About Grilling Is Wrong

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005

Just in time for summer, Robert K. Brown lists 10 tips for grilling. Tip 1: Flip Early, Flip Often.
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‘Sith’ Destroys Single Day Record

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005

After starting the day with $16,912,367 from midnight shows alone, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith closed Thursday with $50,013,859.
…And the MPAA is trying to convince us that p2p (bittorrent) is destroying movie sales. They simply don’t understand. If anything, p2p downloads creates more hype for the movie.
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What’s up with that?

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

This morning, my site got hit hard with something (no idea what, but it shut-down my router). When I got it back up and running, I noticed my site forwarded to some kind of warning message. What’s up with that?

Garage Usable

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

The driveway is finally 100% complete and ready to use. It’s nice to be able to park in a garage again!

NewsGator Buys FeedDemon

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

NewsGator - Business
FeedDemon has purchased Bradbury Software, the makers of my favorite RSS Aggregator FeedDemon. What does it all mean? Here’s the gist of it.

FeedDemon will integrate more tightly with the NewsGator online service. Users will be able to maintain the state of their feeds (what’s unread/read/deleted, etc.) across multiple PCs!
FeedDemon customers [...]

UFO Sighting on Google Maps

Monday, May 16th, 2005

A strange disk can be seen hovering above Florida. UFO or Google trying to draw attention to it’s new service?
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How Battlestar Galactica Killed TV

Sunday, May 15th, 2005

I must admit that after watching an episode of Battlestar Galactica on the SciFi Channel, I had to see more. The only problem is, I already missed a few episodes, and future episodes were only aired once a week! The solution? BitTorrent.
While you might assume the SciFi Channel saw a significant drop-off [...]

Pubsub: 10,000,000 blogs and counting…

Sunday, May 15th, 2005

Pubsub, a great blog monitoring site just surpassed the 10 million mark with over 54% considered active. Is blogging just a fad? Robert Scoble doesn’t think so.
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Xbox 360 Video

Friday, May 13th, 2005

Since SNES, I’ve never really been too excited about a gaming console. I’m more of a PC gamer. This video somehow gets me excited about the Xbox 360, though. I guess that’s the point.
Update: Here’s the Xbox 360 special that was aired on MTV (torrent).
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Gates Promotes Podcasting

Friday, May 13th, 2005

This is sorta funny. For some reason Bill seems uneasy about saying the word “podcast”. Scoble writes:
OK, Mike Hall got Bill Gates to mention podcasting in a little promo video he did. Ahh, another question to ask Bill when we finally do an interview with him.
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