Entries from December 2005

Bats in the belfry

Posted 12/8/05

In the days of old, you bought a bat based on length and weight and had two choices: wood and [...]

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Ad smack

Posted 12/8/05

I had fun yesterday looking into and, well, busting a company that runs ads in lots of newspapers. In ours, [...]

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Something to nothing

Posted 12/6/05

I’m amused by this article on the Sports Network about the Seahawks beating the Eagles on Monday night. Why? While [...]

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MP3s, pirates, and perspective

Posted 12/6/05

Damian Kulash of the small rock band OK Go (he writes, “I have poured my life into this band, and [...]

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Appreciating the kudos

Posted 12/5/05

Cool: I got thumbs-up message from Eric Garland, CEO of Big Champagne, as well as from Marc Freedman, CEO of [...]

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Next: collapsing World Trade Center model!

Posted 12/5/05

I guess after almost 100 years it’s OK to laugh at a tragedy that killed more than 1500 people…. The [...]

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What’s in a name

Posted 12/5/05

Apparently “wind-chill factor” and “temperature-humidity index” are too esoteric for the folks at AccuWeather. Instead, it has its own name: [...]

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Powerful encryption

Posted 12/5/05

In the movies, the good guys (and sometimes the bad guys) are almost always able to break into the encrypted [...]

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Verizon Wireless vocabulary

Posted 12/5/05

The saga of trying to cancel a Verizon Wireless cell phone. [sigh] We have a Verizon Wireless “Family Share” plan, [...]

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Great comment on new and old media

Posted 12/1/05

From a “Sadly, No!” blog entry about the weaknesses of new media: I find it really ironic that the wingnutosphere [...]

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