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MSNBC has an article about the blogging creme de la creme. It’s interesting, though they sort of dipped their toes into the blogosphere and said “ah, so that’s what it’s like.”

More NYT goodness with a longish story about how the search for Osama Bin Laden has stalled, due to mountainous terrain, not terribly cooperative Pakistanis, and the war on Iraq.

According to this article in the New York Times, North Americans use their cell phones for talking first, and messaging (and other data related tomfoolery) second. Asians and Europeans do practically everything on their cellphones, including talk.

I can honestly say though I’ve played around with the idea of getting a new phone, I’m just like everyone else. I only use it to talk, so why bother getting something new? Until my current phone starts looking like hell, of course, which eventually it will.

I just put up a few pictures of myself, Cam, Michiyo and Fan on Flikr. Mars was there too, but the crafty devil eluded the camera.

Kind of a redundant statement, I know. But now there’s a website devoted to ripping into the worst of the worst fan fiction on the web. Which is probably a whole lot.

…happened three years ago today. So raise a glass of your favorite alcoholic beverage and drink to the eventual death of television.

Just got to Vancouver after driving through sleet, ungodly rain, mountain roads, construction and B.C. drivers. Oh yes, and the majority of this fracas was in the dark. I was actually happy to see Vancouver traffic.

But at least I got here OK, and I’ll be spending the next two days in the V.dot.

The New Statesman has an interesting article on its website about how the British East India Company, the driving economic force and one of the key’s of Britain’s world dominance for 200 years, prefigured most of the globalization we see today.

Just goes to show that as Harry S. Truman once said, “the only new things are history you don’t know.” Speaking of which, I’ve got to find a way to get my pithy quotes back on this site somehow. Oh, Cam…..:)

Walt Mossberg, the Wall Street Journal’s resident technology guru, heaps praise on Apple for its lack of spyware, malware and virii.
I “switched” (insert Mac=gay joke here) two years ago, and I’m never going back. Besides being clunky as hell, Windows is a disease ridden mess. Though I will say this; with Firefox and now Thunderbird out, it’s gotten a little better.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld took a grilling in Kuwait from troops back from and headed to Iraq about the sad state of their equipment. Apparently the troops have been reduced to grabbing scrap metal from Iraqi junkyards and lashing together makeshift protection they call “hillbilly armour.”

It’s about time Rummy took some abuse for this insane misfire of a war. I’m also curious if troops have done this sort of thing before and it just hasn’t been reported, or if the troops are really pissed off (as they have every right to be.)