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It looks like my favorite sport of driving fast and turning left is a hit with other TiVo users as well. For the week ending 6/25/2006, NASCAR Racing is the 10th most recorded show on TiVo according to TiVo’s weekly rankings. At number 10, it’s the highest ranking sport in the top 25 followed by […]

Microsoft released the final beta for Internet Explorer 7 today which brings it a big step closer to being released. It looks pretty good, and after 5 years of gathering dust and being the cracker’s (black hat hackers) dream, it’s way overdue. I’ll install it once the final release comes out, but IE 7 is […]

On my lunch time walk I went to a nearby Coconuts hoping to find the Eureka 7 soundtrack that is supposed to be out today. Unfortunately I didn’t find that (though they do have a lot of the Geneon series soundtracks now), but I did see that they were starting to take Playstation 3 preorders […]

Today, despite some early storminess, we started the day with dim sum at the Phoenix in Chinatown, where I wowed the wait staff with the little Cantonese I’ve learned from my wife. Then we shopped some stalls in New Chinatown Square before heading west to Arlington Heights for the 25th Japan Festival. Not only […]

I finally got a chance the look at Connie Chung’s Swan Song on MSNBC this morning. It was pretty hard to listen too, but after reading the various media criticisms going around on the net and remembering the relative rockiness of the last decade or so of her career, I think this performance was a […]

Perfection is a funny thing. We all seem so enamored of it, and many persue it their whole lives. But honestly, is it all that great? I get the daily GameSpy newsletter via email and right now they’re running an ad for the Girls of Gaming. As one might guess, it’s a publication containing the […]

I got email from Disney Mobile this morning. It looks like Mickey is in the phone business now and among other things, promises to give me the ability to track my kids’ phones via GPS. Move over Big Brother! Now admittedly, being able to track my kids may have some practical benefit, but despite my […]

Reading The Rise and Fall of Sega at 2old2play I began to think about my own last decade or so with Sega consoles and games. For the most part I look upon them very fondly, having been swept away in mouth frothing fanboyism back in the day. I mean after all, Sega did have superior […]

I must admit that I usually approach Father’s Day with a bit of dread because of what I may or, often as not, may not get. Yeah, that’s pretty selfish, but to deny the facts would be illogical. This year though, I was very pleasantly surprised to get volumes 4, 5, and 6 of Kare […]

I took my youngest ones with me to see Cars today not really expecting much. I was delightfully surprised to find a movie that just felt good all over! As a racing fan/driving enthusiast/gear-head I was absolutely delighted with all of the nods to the greats of racing, NASCAR in particular. And as a tech […]

Anyone who’s seen my book collection over the years would see that if has evolved from an ever growing collection of Star Trek and Science Fiction novels, to a now rapidly growing collection of manga. I still love sci-fi and fantasy too, but now I’m getting my fill of these via manga and anime. And […]

I’ve still got it, ur, my hearing that is! After seeing the headlines for a couple of days, I finally took a look at the story going around about the ringtone that only teenagers can hear. I watched the story and later downloaded an mp3 of the tone. I was and am very pleased to […]

Xbox chief Peter Moore is “clarifying” his statements concerning Xbox 360 backwards compatibility. Earlier he made remarks that nobody really cared about this anymore. Well, people got into a big uproar as they often do when someone has the audacity to say something that is either patently false or in this case too true for […]

After a longer absence than I would have liked, I logged on to play Final Fantasy XI last night hoping to find a good party and gain another level or two. Things were pretty quiet in the Valkurm dunes on Shiva last night, but I did, for the very first time in playing FFXI, meet […]

Mondays are generally pretty stressful for me no matter what. I just accept that now for the most part. Today I was mostly filled with a great sense of dread, as if fearing what was going to happen next. I think it really got started with a rather vivid dream I had last night.
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