July 2004 - Posts
- The Packers' Annual Report
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It's no secret that the Green Bay Packers are the only publicly-owned team in professional sports. But the impact of that fact is not as evident. As with any publicly-owned company, the Packers must have an annual stockholders' meeting . All professional
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- Moview Review: Anchorman
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From the first preview I saw for Anchorman , I looked forward to this film. I had such high hopes. I love Will Farrell . I love Christina Applegate . I loved the trailers. What could go wrong right? The first bad sign was the nearly empty theater less
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- What Happened to my Penmanship?
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I was at my mom's house earlier today and noticed some notes she had written. I was again struck by how beautiful her penmanship is. As a kid I always admired her handwriting and did my best to make mine match hers. By high school I had developed a pretty
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- Moview Review: The Bourne Supremacy
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I went to the late movie tonight. The theater was 2/3 full. Not bad for a Thursday night. Quite simply, if you loved The Bourne Identity , you'll love The Bourne Supremacy . The same people responsible for the first film are back for the sequel. The same
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- Terra Sells Lycos
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InfoWorld is reporting that Terra Lycos is selling its US-based Lycos operation. Now the good news here is that Terra is selling it for as much as $115 million . Not bad for a web site huh? Unfortunately, the bad news is that they paid $12.5 billion for
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- Political Beliefs
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It doesn't really matter where you stand politically, there's stuff in both of these lists that'll make you think a little... Things you have to believe to be a Republican today Things You Have to Believe to Be a Democrat Today
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- The Most Practical Use for RFID I've Seen So Far
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An interesting blurb on TheFeature.com today... RFID, Par for the Golf Course This may actually be worth a look. I sure could have used it on the 16th at RedGate last Thursday. Skeptics may scoff at the price compared to simply buying more balls, but
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- Days Six, Seven, and Eight -- Golf, History, & Lost Luggage
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I was still pooped when my cell phone alarm woke me at 8:00 am Thursday. Given my long day on Wednesday, it didn't feel like a vacation that early in the morning. The big activity of the day was golf with Brad and his son Max. We had a 9:45 tee time at
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- Day Five -- Cheese Steaks, the Liberty Bell, and Baseball
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Bob picked me up Wednesday morning to begin our journey to Philadelphia . It was a beautiful day for driving. We took a slightly less-traveled route in order to take in some of the rural scenery and avoid traffic. The thing that stands out to me the most
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- Days Three and Four -- More Meetings and More Work
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This will be short. Monday I got up, showered, and made my way to my temporary workstation at Brad's dining room table for a day full of meetings. I can comfortably say I was never further than 20 feet from that spot for the rest of the day. Now I should
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- Days One & Two -- Travel and Meetings
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The first leg of my flight -- from Spokane to Seattle -- was fine, but the connection to Dulles was delayed for three hours. I didn't end up leaving until nearly 4:00 pm Saturday afternoon. I did one thing from this situation however -- the north satellite
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- On the Road Again...
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I'm just about done getting ready to leave for Washington D.C. later this morning. One more batch of laundry and I'll be done. The first few days will be filled with meetings, but I'm scheduled for some much-needed time off the last few days of the week.
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- The Same Old Story
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Friday was Stage 12 of the Tour de France . It was the first real mountain stage, and Lance Armstrong didn't disappoint. He moved from sixth to second, trimming 4 minutes off the gap between himself and the race leader Thomas Voeckler. The most astonishing
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- A Rarity -- A Subtle, Classy Flame Job
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Being the son of a mechanic, I've been a huge fan of cars since I was just a wee lad. My personal preference is for late 60's and early 70's muscle cars ( particularly GM models ). But I love and appreciate just about any old car -- be it rusty, stock,
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- Microsoft Buys Lookout
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Microsoft bought Lookout Software today. Lookout is an Outlook plug-in that indexes email messages for instant searching (anyone with a huge email archive in Outlook knows the pain of searching for old messages). Personally I like X1 , while some of my
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- Firefox 1.0 Gets a Release Date
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Yippee! Firefox 1.0 is right around the corner . I can't believe it's taken them a mere five years to get a version 1.0 browser out the door. Time has has just flown by hasn't it? Boy this open source thing really works! At this rate maybe someday my
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- So Much for That Plan -- Reynolds Trade Falls Apart
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Jamal Reynolds failed his physical with the Colts today, thereby nullifying his trade by the Packers . The Packers had no choice but to cut him to avoid paying the roster bonus. Evidently Reynolds can't do anything right.
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- Woohoo! New iPaqs are Comin'!
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Brighthand is reporting that CDW is taking pre-orders for several new iPaq models that weren't expected until later this year. Each model listed offers pretty impressive new capabilities -- more memory, faster processors, better wireless capabilities,
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- Google Groups 2 Now In Beta
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Google Groups 2 Now in Beta (per Greg Hughs ) The beta version of the new Google Groups 2 is now available. Anything to make it easier for novices to to participate in newsgroup discussions is great in my book. This looks like it has some nice improvements
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- Golfing "The Links"
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I went golfing yesterday with my friend Mike and his son Scott. It was my first time playing The Links course near Post Falls. It was a beautiful day. Not too hot, with a slight cool breeze blowing from the West. Scott's friend Bruce joined us to fill
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- Is "Outrage Fatigue" the New Epidemic?
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From The Onion -- “Nation’s Liberals Suffering From Outrage Fatigue”
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- Bluetooth Luggage Tags
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Gizmodo , one of my favorite web sites, alerted me to a really cool new product today -- Bluetooh luggage tags . Ever since I got my newest iPaq , I've seen the light of the future, and it's Blue ! I had to get a new Bluetooth phone , and Bluetooth headset
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- Packers Trade Reynolds
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How pathetic is this?... The Packers dealt Jamal Reyolds to Indy Thursday. After three seasons, the former number one draft pick played in just 18 games, and never started. At least they avoided paying him a $217k roster bonus. Thanks for nothin' Jamal
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- The Craft of Programming
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While searching the Visual Studio Magazine web site tonight, I stumbled across a really interesting article. In it, Alan Cooper makes the case that programming is a craft . I liked it so much, I'm remotivated to get a couple of his books. My buddy Mike
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- A "Longest Yard" Remake? ...with Adam Sandler!
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Back in 1974 I was a huge Charles Bronson fan. “The Mechanic” , “The Valachi Papers” , “The Stone Killer” , “Death Wish” ... are you kidding me?! He was my guy. And then I saw “The Longest Yard” . Burt Reynolds shot to the top of the list (please note
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- The Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tools List
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Scott Hanselman has posted an incredible listing of tools no developer or power user should be without.
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- Lance is the Man!
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So far I've watched two of the first four stages of this year's Tour de France (or more accurately, I have it on while I work), and I can't seem to get enough. What the U.S. Postal Team (USP) did today by winning the stage was incredible. To see Lance
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- Java vs. Open Source -- The Great Debate
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I ran into this interesting piece on Wired News over the weekend about a session at last week's JavaOne Conference about the merits of taking Java open-source. Two things struck me about it. The lack of enthusiasm to the whole open-source issue, and just
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- The Da Vinci Coupe?
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Here it is 500 years later, and we're still figuring out what a genius Leonardo Da Vinci was. The New York Times did a short piece about a recreation of a self-propelled wagon first designed by Da Vinci back in 1478. Powered by a spring that is tensed
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- The Spokane Hot Zone
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Living in the Spokane Valley I don't get into downtown Spokane very often. That's usually not a big deal, but a little more than a week ago, the City of Spokane launched a huge, free WiFi "Hot Zone" downtown. Yesterday was the first time I had a chance
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- Jesse Jackson Leaves Me Speachless
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Jesse Jackson to NASCAR: 'Negroes Can Drive Cars Fast' CNSNews.com Evidently I missed a political correctness meeting...
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- Packers Sign Ferguson
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The Packers have locked up Robert Ferguson through 2008. Although it's taken a while for him to start to live up to his potential, it's nice to see Coach Sherman get him locked in. It's not so much that I found this news particularly earth-shattering.
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- Mono 1.0 Released
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Holy cow! How did this one slip by me? Novell released Mono 1.0 yesterday. Sure it's taken them a while, but then again, they said it would. For those of you that don't know, it's an open-source, cross-platform implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework
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