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Rant - FOX NFL
I’m going to rant for a moment so bear with me.
I’m sitting in the living room enjoying a nice relaxing Sunday afternoon watching football. The game on Fox this week for my area was Rams @ Cowboys. The game has been pretty much one sided since halftime with the Cowboys in the lead. This is [...]
Halo 3
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or just aren’t into video games) you’ve probably heard that Halo 3 was released today. It looks to be an amazing game (my copy won’t be here until Thursday). 1up.com gave it a rating of 10 which is the higher score they give, saying “Halo 3 has enough [...]
WordPress 2.3 - Blog Updated
Just finished updating the blog engine (WordPress) to 2.3 which was released today and I have to say I’m liking the new version a lot. The upgrade was super simple. Used the Wordpress Database Backup plugin to easily make a backup in case anything went wrong and I needed to restore. Then I downloaded my [...]
Gmail Mobile Updated
Looks like the online mobile version of Gmail has been updated to include check boxes next to each email. This is excellent as it allows you to quickly delete emails or report any spam that made its way through without having to open each individual email. Take a look at http://m.gmail.com with your mobile phone [...]
Mobile Viewing
The blog is now easily viewable on a mobile phone/pda thanks to the WordPress PDA plugin. Just head to http://blog.jtallison.com on your phone and it’ll automatically load.
Notre Dame Loses, 33-3 against Georgia Tech
Unfortunately the Fighting Irish lost today against Georgia Tech. I figured it would be tough for ND because of starting the season off with a new QB, but I didn’t think it would be a slaughter. Charlie Weis started the game off with Demetrius Jones and the Georgia Tech defense had no trouble stopping him, [...]
Office Space as a Drama
This was done really well.
NBC says “You’re Fired” to Apple
Well it looks like NBC is choosing not to renew their contract with Apple that would allow NBC shows to be available through the iTunes store because Apple would not raise prices.
“We are disappointed to see NBC leave iTunes because we would not agree to their dramatic price increase,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president [...]
Richmond Free Wireless
I recently installed two little white boxes on my network. This white boxes are for Richmond Free Wireless which is a community driven wifi network that plans to cover the entire Richmond area with WiFi providing free internet access to everyone. What’s nice about these units is basically all you do is plug it into [...]
Mozilla Firefox Update
Mozilla released a new version of the Firefox browser today. The update fixes two flaws recently found in the browser, 1 critical and 1 moderate.
MFSA 2007-27 Unescaped URIs passed to external programs
MFSA 2007-26 Privilege escalation through chrome-loaded about:blank windows
You can download the update here, or in Firefox [...]
