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I switched themes, that last one was too girly.  I’ll probably play around with it a few more times until I find something I like.

Tucked away in fine print in the military spending bill for this past year was $20 million to pay for a celebration in the nation’s capital “for commemoration of success” in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Not surprisingly, the money was not spent. Now congressional Republicans are saying, in effect, maybe next year. A paragraph written into […]

I’ve been meaning to write a television post, now that the new season has had a chance to soak in.

I like Aaron Sorkin. I think the cast is mostly great. But I’m not really in love with Studio 60. Apparently I’m not alone in this. I want to like it, and […]

TV might cause autism - Slate Magazine
Today, Cornell University researchers are reporting what appears to be a statistically significant relationship between autism rates and television watching by children under the age of 3. The researchers studied autism incidence in California, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington state. They found that as cable television became common in California […]

If your problem with the current wave of coldblooded horror movies is that they’re insufficiently mean-spirited, let me point you toward Terry Gilliam’s “Tideland,” the misanthropic nadir of the director’s crash-and-burn career.
Don’t bother waiting through the ad on Salon to read the rest of it, you’ve pretty much gotten the gist of the review.

I don’t understand this whole Vox thing. Weblogging “for the rest of us?” Us who? It’s a weblog system that I can’t even leave a comment on without signing up for an account? And I can’t have an account unless I’m invited? And if I do get invited and have […]

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Technology :: Local grad a YouTube tycoon
Chen, 28, and his business partner are the latest to hit the online jackpot, selling their YouTube.com Web site to Google for $1.65 billion this week.
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“He was a pretty solid ‘B’ student. He didn’t do anything to really stand head and shoulders above everybody else — […]

I knew about Google Spreadsheets, which I played with a bit, but now they have a full featured word processor. I don’t really see myself using an online application, but it looks pretty nifty, even if just to convert to PDF:
Google Docs & Spreadsheets
With Google Docs & Spreadsheets, you can:
* Use our online editor […]

Yeah, so I’m trying to get back into the groove. You know how it goes; Summer, baby, Other Things taking up mental bandwidth. The software that I was using previously required that I be running it from my desk, and at the end of the day after the baby gets to sleep I’m […]

Welcome to Gensyn version… um… 4.0? I forget. Anyway, hang in there while I get this built up again.