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Entries from December 2006

Nothing new to see here

December 20th, 2006 · Comments Off

There’s apparently a big huff and puff going on today about Techcrunch’s Mike Arrington “breaking up” with Netflix, apparently frustrated with how “power users” of the service are being treated and that he had issues with his queue - and that he’s gone to the other side, or rather, to Blockbuster’s comparable service.
I’m really surprised […]

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Times Square gets with the program

December 20th, 2006 · Comments Off

Late last week, I was given the heads up that the Times Square Alliance had announced that it would be enabling pretty much anyone with access to satellite feeds - and others who might only have access to public IP-based websites, the opportunity to see what is going on behind the setup for the big […]

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Testing MarsEdit

December 17th, 2006 · Comments Off

I’m just testing out the MarsEdit engine to see how I like it. Hopefully this is coming out hunky-dory.

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Umm, next time check Urban Dictionary first

December 14th, 2006 · Comments Off

I know what they meant to be saying here, but I’m guessing no one checked the language of the day before sending this out, right?

Or, they could have just watched Clerks. Thanks, Chris!
Oh, by the way. This is probably totally NSFW.

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Quit with the mailing lists already

December 8th, 2006 · Comments Off

Dear Internet,
Please stop subscribing me to your mailing lists. I don’t mind the pitches (as long as I actually write about what you’re sending me) and everything else that comes in (sans spam, natch) but if I’m not subscribing to your mailing list, and have no idea who you are, you should know that you’re […]

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Denver gets a double dose of Bill O’Reilly

December 8th, 2006 · Comments Off

In Friday’s Rocky Mountain News, Dusty Saunders writes about an amusing situation about to take place in the city of Denver next week. As it turns out, FOX News talk show host Bill O’Reilly’s television show will be up against his radio show - “The Radio Factor” - which Clear Channel-owned KHOW is going to […]

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ESPN reaches further into Europe with Disney buy

December 5th, 2006 · 1 Comment

The WSJ’s Aaron Patrick reports that ESPN parent Disney has purchased NASN Ltd., a cable channel that shows a lot of U.S.-based sporting content on television in Europe out of London. Whether or not this “partnership” will end up bringing more European content to America viewers will be a different story.

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