Promoted.

Finally.

This week's fortune.

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

Yahoo! Mail Beta...holler.

Yahoo! is giving Google a run for the money, this time in the webmail category. I was recently able to try out Yahoo! Mail Beta, which is based on AJAX technology similar to what GMail uses. YMB one-ups GMail, as it provides an interface similar to what is seen in desktop mail apps such as Thunderbrid and Outlook. Plus it looks like they're doing away with the annoying advertisement at the bottom of e-mail messages from free account holders. Now if they could do something to match Google Calendar...

This week's fortune.

A dark haired woman will soon be giving you a gift.

Editor's note: Holler! If you're a dark-haired woman I know, I'm lookin' at you right now.

This week's fortune.

You will find happiness in mind and heart.

In the phase.

With the first of the Radiohead shows in Chicago 37 days away, I have already begun my obsession phase. This is where I start listening to all their old albums as well as downloading bootlegs of all the new stuff. This phase usually ends about a week prior to the show so I don't burn out on them. It starts back up again a couple of days before the concert.

Anyway, I'm liking quite a few of the new songs. My current favorite is 15 Step, which has an amusing clap beat and a killer guitar riff. Through the magic of YouTube (one of my new favorite sites...mostly because of the RH videos posted on there), I will share a video of it with you:

This week's fortune.

You are independent both politically and socially.

Editor's note: Holler that.

I am NOT down with Nuestro Himno.

Normally, I'm someone who doesn't really care what other people say or do as long as they don't harm me. I'm also one who's fairly apathetic when it comes to political issues. However, I feel that "Nuestro Himno," a Spanish recorded version of the United States national anthem, is out of line. I'll even go so far as to agree with the president on this one.

This doesn't mean that I'm going to protest against it or anything. After all, free speech is one of the reasons that make the U.S.A. so great. What I will do, though, is write a blog entry expounding my distaste. Bottom line: if you want to be a United States citizen, please be so kind as to sing our anthem in our language.

This week's fortune.

You will step on the soil of many countries.

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 - better than IE7 Beta 1.

Microsoft is looking to improve on its recently challenged, but still dominant, position in internet browser market share with Internet Explorer 7. The second beta of IE7 was recently released, and I am inclined to give props. IE7 has tabbed browsing and RSS support, features which have long been offered by Mozilla Firefox and Opera. Unfortunately, the tabs can't be rearranged like they can in the other browsers. Other noteworthy aspects of IE7 are the Quick Tabs preview feature and its slick interface. The rendering style is also markedly different from the competitors and previous IE versions. IE7B2 definitely fixes some bugs that were present in the first beta, such as an inability to properly render Yahoo! Mail (?!). Apparently, there were some other incompatibility issues, especially in the area of security, which were fixed in this beta. All in all, I give the product a thumbs up, and move it up from a distant third in my browser preference to tied with Opera for second.

Time to switch to Google?

Remember that one time I mused about Google getting a calendar application? Well, they either read my post or they wisened up, as they just released Google Calander today. I have maintained that the reason I still used Yahoo! Mail is because of the calendar next door. I guess this means that I'm switching to Gmail...

This week's fortune.

A friend is a present you give yourself.

Alan Schwarz picks the Cards to win it all...

...which is a little more surprising than my friend Alan Schwartz picking them to win the Series.

Anyway, read Alan's and the rest of the ESPN experts pics here. While you're at it, note Rob Neyer's pick for NL MVP.

ESPNsoccernet - Nigerian referees given permission to take bribes

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=363449&cc=5901

Wow. The motherland is struggling a little bit these days...

This week's fortune.

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him.

[Editor's note: WTF?!]

I helped make this possible...

http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2006/q1/060327b_nr.html

Why must Dell computers always give me a headache?

Tonight I finally had time to set up the new family PC, a Dell Dimension E510, that had been sitting beside the front door for the last week-and-a-half. After hooking things up and plugging them in, I turned on the computer, ran through some setup wizards, then began uninstalling the numerous unnecessary programs.

After getting through a few of them, I ran across one that prompted me to restart in order to make the changes. When I hit "Cancel" to restart later, the computer promptly restarted...without logging out or saving any settings. Upon restart, I didn't make it through logging in before I was greeted by the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (or BSOD, as I fondly refer to it). Two more restarts yielded two more BSODs as soon as I logged in.

Hmmm...I sense a PC restore is in my near future...

This week's fortune.

You will take a chance in something in the near future.

Wanted: soccer chicks.

My indoor soccer team is in need of more female players. We play on Tuesday nights sometime between 18:00 and 23:00. If you are interested or know someone who may be, please holler.

This week's fortune.

The star of happiness is shining on you.