This is extremely funny. Make sure you have room to laugh.
Lappy 486

You scored as Maximus. After his family was murdered by the evil emperor Commodus, the great Roman general Maximus went into hiding to avoid Commodus’s assassins. He became a gladiator, hoping to dominate the colosseum in order to one day get the chance of killing Commodus. Maximus is valiant, courageous, and dedicated. He wants […]

The Federal Communications Commission is expected to suggest that cable companies could best serve their customers by allowing them to subscribe to individual channels instead of packages of several stations
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Holy Cow! It’s actually snowing in Salem, Oregon in November! And it’s actually getting “harder”. Gotta go and watch the snow now.
 
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), along with two leading national class action law firms, today filed a lawsuit against Sony BMG, demanding that the company repair the damage done by the First4Internet XCP and SunnComm MediaMax software it included on over 24 million music CDs.
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Apparently I’m going to be an AT&T customer once again. Looks like Cingular is going to be re-branded as AT&T after the merger with SBC. Personally I liked the Cingular name better, but I can see their point, AT&T is a much more recognizable name than Cingular.
Read the whole story: USATODAY.com - Cingular will be […]

WordPress.com just opened its gates to everyone.
You no longer require an invitation - Out of Beta and works great!
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I finally convinced my wife to start up a blog: Teach This!
My wife is a teacher and has many opinions on the matter and I’m sure her blog will be a very interesting read to many. So check it out sometime.

SitePoint has a good review of the top 3 blogging platforms out there. If you are at all interested in blogging, you should give it a read to make a well informed decision (wordpress).
Blog Software Smackdown: The Big 3 Reviewed [Site Planning]

Its official, Mozilla Firefox is the best product of 2005, according to PC World anyway. Watch out IE… I didn’t see you anywhere in the list.

Mozilla Firefox
Google Gmail
Apple Mac OS X Version 10.4 (Tiger)
Belkin Wireless Pre-N Router and Notebook Network Card
Dell Ultrasharp 2405FPW

For a complete list, go here:
PCWorld.com - The 100 Best Products of 2005