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Happy New Year!

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I’m a big fan of New Year’s Day.  Not only is there a lot of high-quality football (OK, and hockey) to watch but there are generally great leftovers and no rules on eating all kinds of bad snack food while you do your best speed-bump imitation on the couch.  Of course, I like it for other reasons as well. Continue reading

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XBox Redux

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I used to be a die-hard Playstation guy.  I spent many a happy hour on both the original and the PS2.  I had both an original XBox and a 360 and while I liked them, I haven’t really been in deep love.  It was kind of an ugly duckling – it had some potential but it was not really there.  I’m not a big fan of the controller (maybe I’m not the demo but they’re too damn complex for me) and while I signed up for XBox Live I never saw great benefit in it.  Until now. Continue reading

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Be Nice

Interesting pickup today by the folks at Lost Remote about an ad campaign run by The Austin Statesman.  They’re using TV commercials to rip TV news as you can see from this video

I’ve got a number of issues with this. Continue reading

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