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August 2004

57 posts

Lite posting next 10 days

I am in the process of sorting, packing, cleaning etc to get ready for the move to my new home this coming weekend. My wife has been hacking away at it for the past 3 weeks, 2 of which I have been gone on travel. Needless to say I have a lot to do by Friday morning. Thus expect lite

321 Studios software on Rouge Taiwan web site

For a while 321 Studios opened up their FTP site for all takers and people went crazy downloading software. It seems a website originating in Taiwan has mirrored a great deal of the original 321 Studios website. [ExtremeTech]

Napster Discounts Music For Troops

In a move to save US service members money they can get the monthly service for $8.95 per month and single downloads for .88 cents a track and 10% off on all Albums. I support companies that support our troops. [Centric Mall]

Stamps.com

Collecting Stamps is a passion by many people. Now imagine if you can have a legal tender stamp issued with your picture on it. My wife is going to go crazy with this one. Imagine companies getting in on the action.. Very Very cool! [Stamps.com]

Battle Torrent

Thanks to Dave over at Scripting News for the link. The already easy process of downloading files via BitTorrent has just gotten easier. [Downhill Battle]

Robot to fix the Hubble

My first thought is are they smoking crack. NASA has gave the go ahead to fix the Hubble with a Robot. How in the hell are they going to do that and have enough lift capacity to get it there all in one launch. I know they went to Mars but getting a robot to fix Hubble has me wondering

DVD Rippers for all my Friends

321 Studio's may be gone but that do not despair you can still find software to protect your fair use rights which will allow you to copy DVD's you have. Thanks to Dan Gillmor for the link. [Super DVD Ripper] [DVD to X] [DVD Rip] [DVD Rip Guides]

Web Developer Needed!

In June while I was in recovery from my Spinal injury I hired a Web Designer to help us clean up the code on this site to optimize it for MT version 3 and to develop a skin for my personal site. I paid a $280.00 advance on work to be completed. To make a long story short the web

Does your website still use Tables?

I will be the first to admit I have several websites with Tables and need to get them converted to CSS. I encourage you to take the time and read the linked article to better understand why you are throwing money away every day by not cleaning up your website and converting from plain jane HTML to CSS. [StopDesign]

321Studios forced out of business by Media Mafia

I have been mulling this over for a few days and am saddened that another company has been destroyed by the Mafia like organizations that went after them in the courts for giving consumers the tools to allow fair use of media that they own. I have to give the men and women that worked at 321 Studios a Bronze

Chris Pirillo ask why Microsoft didnt use BitTorent for SP2

I have to agree with Chris, Microsoft could have sped the deployment of XP SP2 by seeding a Torrent the file would have spread like wildfire. But I guess then they probably would have been accused of promoting one of the best file distribution tools on the net and would have legitimized a tool that organizations like the MPAA and

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