drudgereport.com/flash2.ht…

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=prnw.20070319.DCM015&show_article=1

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=443043&in_page_id=1965

I’m not an Obama fan, but this is clever.

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www.dallascowboys.com/news.cfm

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This could be the beginning of the end for this sports venue.

Dallas Morning News: Cotton Bowl Moving

Well, its apparently been over 2 months since I last posted anything to the ol' blog.  The last think I wrote about was the late night release of ThinWire 1.2 RC 1.  So much has happened since then.  Instead of writing about everything, I’ll just list stuff that’s happened since then:

• Two snapshot releases of ThinWire have been made.
• I attended three weddings in three cities in three weeks.
• I finished reading Asimov's Foundation novels.
• I attended a midnight wedding.
• My printer broke.
• Megan and I celebrated one year of marriage.
• I purchased an iPod.
• Epson sent me a brand new printer.
• I read the New Testament
• My company purchased additional office space.
• I replaced the brake pads on my car.

• Get a haircut.

Early last Friday morning, we released the latest version of ThinWire (1.2 Release Candidate 1). Since then, it’s been very interesting and exciting to watch the reaction.

First of all, there actually was a reaction to this release. Nothing of significant note happened after our previous releases, but this one was different.

1. Our SourceForge rank has been bouncing all over the place. On Friday night it was 12, Saturday night it fell to 13, Sunday night it rose to 8, and last night it fell back to 12.
2. Our download count is heathier than ever. We had over 200 on Friday. We exceeded 178 yesterday, and we're already above 140 this morning.
3. Other people are talking about us:
   1. http://evolutionarygoo.com/blog/?p=70
   2. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/312936.htm
   3. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/wa-dw-wa-thinwire1.html?ca=drs-

America… What a country! In America, you watch TV. In Soviet Russia, TV watches you!

The MPAA is trying to push a bill through Congress that would require anyone with a home theater to register with them. The home theater equipment will have devices that can determine information about the audience watching and report back to the KGB MPAA.

What makes a home theater? According to the MPAA, a home theater is any home with:

• A television larger than 29" with stereo sound
• At least 2 comfortable chairs or a couch or futon

"Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn't give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too. That's a violation of copyright and denies us the revenue that would be generated from DVD sales to your friends," said [MPAA head] Glickman. "Ideally we expect each viewer to have their own copy of the DVD, but we realize that isn't always feasible. The registration fee is a fair compromise.

Source: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2006/11/home-theater-regulations.html [Mirror]

Terrell Owens has released his first book in a series of childrens books.  His next book will be called Little T Learns What Not to Say, followed by Little T Learns To Say I’m Sorry.  I swear I’m not making this up.

Amazon.com

Dallas Morning News

I don’t know why I do the things I do.  Today I searched Google for a phrase that I used to say a lot: “Sleepmode is the squidaud”  It was an inside joke of sorts.  Busta Rhymes often says “Flipmode is the Squidaud,” refering of course to his group. Some friends of mine hijacked that phrase and began using it to refer to a love of slumber.  Anyway, I digress.

The point is that I Googled “sleepmode is the squidaud” and only got three results.  Two were from the previous version of TedCHoward.com, and one was from a blog that I apparantly had 4 years ago.  Using Google as the record, I am the only person to ever post the phrase “sleepmode is the squidaud” on the internet.  I’m not sure how I feel about that.

The New York Times has yet another story on scientists attacking religion and vice versa. Does it make me foolish to believe that faith in God and scientific truth are in harmony with each other and not polar opposites? It would be nice to be able to believe in things proven by observation without being labeled a heretic, and likewise, I would enjoy discussing my faith in God without being labeled an idiot.

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/56316

This is interesting for two reasons:

1. The comic book that shows a potential scenario.
2. The discussion comments that follow.

http://www.jibjab.com/weird_al/do_i_creep_you_out

He has 3 SuperBowl rings.

He holds the record for all-time rushing yards in the NFL.

Now he’s the new winner of Dancing With the Stars.

What can’t he do?

Because what we really needed was a logo we could see from space.

3 more days! http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/videoPlayer.php?vidId=90498&catId=342

I’m so excited, I can hardly concentrate. The Fair starts in 4 days. They have tons of new food, new exhibits, and new shows. Just got to make it through 4 days of work.

http://www.newsnet5.com/education/9891863/detail.html

As far as I’m concerned this is Class IV Retarded. It was an orange watergun. Now this six year old will be suspended for 10 days and have on his permanent record that he brought something resembling a weapon to school.

From the Slackware current changelog:

I took several stabs with me sword at ripping out kdebase's surprise HAL requirement as well, but the best I could achieve was "Internal Error". Aarrr!!

I am such a nerd.

Well, there was supposed to be a big world premiere event for this video on AOL today, but apparantly it was leaked on the internet early, so the premiere was canceled. [youtube=www.youtube.com/watch

Talk Like a Pirate Day is tomorrow, and to help get you in the mood, ABC’s season premiere of Wife Swap features a pirate family.  Actually, not just any pirate family, but the family who started Talk Like a Pirate Day a few years back.

[youtube=www.youtube.com/watch

OmniNerd has a very interesting article on our obsession with finding the cheapest gas available.  He mathematically determines possible savings over a month, and then applies the formulas to other commodities that we generally aren’t as obsessive at finding better prices.

I have been known to go out of my way for that extra $0.05/gallon savings, but how much am I actually saving?