July 25, 2005 Monday
Look out Uma and Carrie Ann, Mad Rae's ready to kick yo' butt! Put her on your desktop: 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024...
July 22, 2005 Friday
We only pay for "Basic" cable. This means we get most of the broadcast stations plus a couple of others. They didn't lock us out too tight on the top end and so we get HGTV at 77 and an...
July 18, 2005 Monday
My mother writes for a living. She's a grant writer for M. D. Anderson, her audiences are varied, but usually she has to dig technical information out of snobby superior doctor types and use it to appeal to whoever the...
My family was all asleep by 11:45 on Friday night, but I was a little restless. I decided to go pick up the book. I have a discount card for Barnes and Noble, so I went over to the location...
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July 15, 2005 Friday
A couple months ago Mark Pesce wrote an article about hyperdistribution and the death of broadcast television. In contrast to my comment about the inferior power of banner ads on Monday, he sees them as the future of video advertising....
July 14, 2005 Thursday
Not just God, but UEFA, too, looks at the heart. Or at least frowns on insult expressed as sarcastic affection....
July 11, 2005 Monday
There is one simple reason that soccer is not popular in the United States: No time for commercial breaks. The media would be cramming soccer down our throats, telling us that everybody else is watching it, having parties around it,...
July 8, 2005 Friday
Some questions are difficult to put to search engines. I've been watching enough soccer on Spanish language television lately to wonder why they abbreviate USA as EEUU. It took a number of tries to find a way to ask a...