March Madness

NCAA March Madness Bracket 2008
BBall, let the Games Begin
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Link to PDF Chart:
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http://teamrankings.com/ncb/
printable PDF file on page..
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My New Comic Blog...

http://yallerdawgcomics.blogspot.com/

Yaller Dawg Comics Lives!!!
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Naked Flight 201

OK, the Flight number is bogus, but the first trial of a Nudist Flight is Not.

Here's the News Report from MercuryNews.com
http://www.mercurynews.com/travel/ci_8155889

An eastern German travel firm, OssiUrlaub, is now taking bookings for a nudist day trip from Erfurt, Germany, to the popular Baltic Sea resort of Usedom. The trial excursion is planned for July 5.

Watch it, snapping that Seat Belt...

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Searching for Billions
After spending 10 Billion trying to get into the lucrative internet advertising business, and trying to nudge section Gorilla GOOGLE, Windows offers
43+ Billion for Yahoo!
MSNBC's Mad Money
(Good Name) with Jim Cramer says it's a GOOD DEAL
for both.
Spending 43 Billion for a Searcher that is
still losing market share and staff
(Last week they let go 2000 workers),
is hardly a GOOD IDEA.
Sorry Jim.
Sorry Bill.
Sorry Yahoo!

My Blogger Blogs Updated

My Virtual Life in Blogs and More

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Blog Address Alt. name (bold) Last Update
# of Posts

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1 http://elosblog.blogspot.com/ Dos Possos Oct 11, 2007
13 posts
(About Writers and BOOKS)
2 http://vistavectors.blogspot.com/ Oct 11, 2007 13 posts
(Windows VISTA)

3 http://pbucket1.blogspot.com/ Jan 23, 2008 5 posts
(Ontario PB)

4 http://pbucket2.blogspot.com/ Dec 19, 2007 1 post
(Upland PB)
5 http://eloopensources.blogspot.com/ Dec 7, 2007 7 posts
(Open Source Doings)
6 http://psphardwired.blogspot.com/ Nov 3, 2007 6 posts
(PlayStationPortable on Steroids)
7 http://koolhunter2.blogspot.com/ Dec 23, 2007 10 posts
(Tools for Searching the WEB)
8 http://thursdaysave.blogspot.com/ Jan 31, 2008 17 posts
(Our Original ChatRoom in the 80's)
9 http://mediacircus2.blogspot.com/ Jan 30, 2008 85 posts
(Homage to My First Webpage on AOL)
10 http://tvjeebees.blogspot.com/ Jan 17, 2008 9 posts
(TV and The Movies)
11 http://theletterselo.blogspot.com/ Dec 18, 2007 19 posts
(Written by ELO)
12 http://mycordiunnot.blogspot.com/ Oct 17, 2007 39 posts
(Mass Media Course Correction)
13 http://elosdigitalstory.blogspot.com/ Dec 19, 2007 5 posts
(My Online Book Stories)

Blog Or Webpage, Which is Better?

INDEED!

Which is Better?
(I'll be using a lot of Initials in this piece, but I'll try to define it in the latest terms)

IMHO (which means: In My Humble Opinion) the Blog (which came from: Web Log, but turned into something else) Wins every time.
In fact, most Webpages are really Blogs in disguise.

What has caused this change in expression? The answer is CMS better known as Content Management Systems (meaning programs), which can be reduced to the terms: Content Formatters. Which is an extension of CSS Cascading Style Sheets, a way of easily changing the Look of a Webpage. CSS was the door opener, and the shift from static webpages that just sat there (and didn't draw much attention) to dynamic webpages (also called: Web 2.0), which bounce and dance all over the place. (some, Admittedly to the point of distraction--too much going on).

I believe that next to video (aka YouTubing), flash animation ( an Adobe program) has become the new king of the web.

Okay, what does CMS programs give you?

Headers, footers, sidebars (right columns,left columns or both), themes to coordinate styles and colors.

After Months on the "Injured List", I'm Back!

Went to Barnes and Noble on Saturday. You know, Christmas shopping. I headed straight to the magazine rack and looked for my Linux Favorites. Grabbed the December issue of Linux Format and Linux Pro Magazine. Found a nice comfortable chair and scanned thru the mags casually. Both of these magazines come with DVD's chock-full of Open Source goodies. Both of thses magazines are British publications and aside from the fact that the prices in the ads are listed in british pounds, they could just as easily been published here in the states. Linux Format is the more polished of the two, but I've growned to appreciate the longer in-depth articles in Linux Pro, but that's just a matter of taste.

Added Newsgator from CNet.com to the TWSTW blog.

The Wonders of IMDB

The Atomic Cafe (1982)

Goodnight, My Love (1972) (TV)

Richard Boone (I)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0095524/

Biography for
Kurt Russell (I)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000621/bio

Michael Parks (I)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662981/

Full cast and crew for
"Then Came Bronson" (1969)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063955/fullcredits#cast

Harlan Ellison
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0255196/

Biography for
Eli Wallachhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0908919/bio

Eli Wallach Filmography
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0908919/

All these links represent some of Grist for the Mill you can Glean from the Wonderful online site called: IMDB (Internet Movie Database).

Next to Google, I go to IMDB.COM constantly. A forgotten feature of IMDB is that it also shows when a searched movie title will next appear on TV.

As a sidenote: My Open Sources Blog has a detailed explanation of Beagle searcher and the value RSS feeds.

Podcast Central Listing

Podcasts have nothing to do with iPods.

I listen to them on my Sony PSP (Playstation Portable) thank you.

There is no mystery about my favorite, it's Leo Laporte's TWiT.TV podcasts. I'll update my list of Favs here on TWSTW's blog.

Here we go: (The green highlighted text is the Link.)

NPR (National Public Radio) podcasts: For Louie.
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=4819382

TWiT (This Week in Tech) podcast: The Master of Podcasting, Leo Laporte, who just won Blogcast of the year award from xxx, at a ceremony in Vegas. He aslo gave the Keynote Address.
http://twit.tv/twit

SECURITY Now! podcast with Steve Gibson. Yeah, that Steve Gibson. I remember seeing him at OCTUG (Orange County Trs-80 User Group) some 20 plus years ago.
http://twit.tv/sn

FLOSS Weekly podcast. Free Libre Open Source Software has done interviews with several heavyweights of the Linux community, including Miguel De Icaza of GNOME and Mono fame, and the creator of Python, the Great Dane, Guido Van Rossum.
http://twit.tv/FLOSS

MACBREAK Weekly podcast. Not just because of the iPod, the Mac should be on every tech's "what's happening in the Mac World." radar.
http://twit.tv/mbw

The GILLMORE Gang podcast. Here because the hosts have been on TWiT many times.
http://gillmorgang.podshow.com/

Revision 3:DIGGNATION podcast with Kevin Rose, owner of both Revision 3 and Digg.com, and formally from TechTV.
http://revision3.com/diggnation
ROCKETBOOM Daily podcast with Joanne Colan, a girl that talks tech.
http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/

SCOBLE Show podcast with Robert Scoble. Also a regular Twit.
http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/

DL.TV podcast Robert Herren (the Photoshop and Video Guru) and Roger Chang (the Digital Camera Lab Rat) from the TechTV show. Formally hosted by Patrick Norton and Roger Chang. Patrick has moved over to Systm Video podcasts.
http://dl.tv/

REVISION3/SYSTM podcasts with Patrick Norton and Jim Louderback also from TechTV show. Previously hosted by TechTV alumni Kevin Rose.
http://revision3.com/systm/

REVISION3/TEKZILLA podcast with Patrick Norton (Sarah Lane subs) and Jessica Corbin. Yep, also from TechTV.
http://revision3.com/tekzilla/ladies
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Here's Three Picks from Louie:

Remember Route 66?

The Past IS Prologue. Or as Spock would say: Remember. ..."Old Time Radio."

http://www.otr.net/

If you're going to be fanatical about something, here's a good place to start:

http://fanaticalapathy.com/

Thanks Bro.
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Okay that about it for NOW, more coming Real-Soon-Now...

Later, Wingman.