A Real Review of Hulu

Seeded on Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:24 PM EDT (playlistmag.com)

NBC and News Corp. own the media. Up until this point the "reviews" of Hulu.com have all been favorable, I wonder why. Here's a review for everyone under 55 that's used the internet more than once. Possibly my favorite quote:

technology, nbc-universal, hulu, fox, itunes, apple, online-video

PLPA Response to the NLL Cancellation Press Release

Seeded on Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:04 AM EDT (plpa.com)

A couple choice quotes: This morning in reading the Leagues press release, I was somewhat frustrated by Jim Jennings claim that the League will "look to work improve our overall business model". A model which leaves small market teams behind.

sports, jim-jennings, player-representative, plpa, nll, lacrosse, national-lacrosse-league, lax

Thoughts on the 2008 NLL Cancellation

Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:56 PM EDT

Well, that was fun. It seems the NLL and the PLPA could not reach an agreement over the weekend.

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sports, nll, lax, national-lacrosse-league, cancellation, lacrosse

Roughnecks Trade Wray for Deitrich

Seeded on Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:00 PM EDT (calgaryroughnecks.com)

Taylor Wray, regarded by pundits as the best defender to ever dress for the Calgary Roughnecks, was today traded to the Philadelphia Wings.

sports, national-lacrosse-league, nll, lacrosse, lax, ian-llord, calgary-roughnecks, shawn-williams, taylor-wray

NLL Makes Deal with YouTube

Seeded on Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:40 AM EDT (nll.com)

After a load of videos, including some of mine, were removed from YouTube (sore subject, I'm still waiting for some answers from the NLL on this one), the NLL announced that they "scored" a deal with the video sharing site.

sports, nll, lax, lacrosse, national-lacrosse-league, youtube, video

Calgary Roughnecks Slaughter Portland Lumberjax

Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2007 9:39 AM EDT (calgaryroughnecks.com)

The hometown boys were in top form on Satuday night as they avenged Friday's loss to the Lumberjax.

sports, nll, national-lacrosse-league, lax, lacrosse, calgary-roughnecks, portland-lumberjax, tracey-kelusky, nolan-heavenor, jeff-shattler

SportsNet will be Showing the NLL All-Star Game in Canada

Wed Mar 7, 2007 8:18 AM EST

Thanks to a tip from former Roughneck announcer Barks, it seems that SportsNet will be showing the NLL All-Star game this year. This is especially good news given that there has been only spotty TV coverage of any NLL game in Canada this year.

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sports, lacrosse, lax, national-lacrosse-league, nll, all-star-game, allstar, sportsnet, rogers-sportsnet

Roughneck GM Kurt Silcott in Live Chat

Seeded on Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:45 AM EST (nll.com)

You either can put up with him or you hate him, especially after firing fan favorite Head Coach Chris Hall last week. Today Kurt Silcott will be in a live online chat hosted on NLL.com, answering your questions. The chat starts at 9pm EST.

sports, calgary-roughnecks, lax, lacrosse, nll, national-lacrosse-league, kurt-silcott, online-chat, chat

Calgary Roughnecks Fire Head Coach

Seeded on Sun Feb 25, 2007 9:59 AM EST (calgaryroughnecks.com)

Chris Hall, the only head coach the Calgary Roughnecks have had since the club entered the National Lacrosse League in 2001, has been released. He was let go following last night's 9-12 home loss to the Toronto Rock.

sports, national-lacrosse-league, chris-hall, calgary-roughnecks, roughnecks, nll, lacrosse, lax

The "crazy" Zune commercial

Tue Jan 2, 2007 2:19 PM EST

I can't, at least at this point in time, verify whether this is true or not but there seems to be a video going around that makes some question the sanity of the Zune marketing team.

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technology, microsoft, zune, commercial, crazy-creatures, ms, mp3-player, odd, youtube, video

New jersey for Calgary Roughnecks lacrosse team

Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:39 AM EST

Earlier this week The Calgary Herald had a picture in their paper of the new Calgary Roughneck jersey for the 2007 season. This came as an unexpected surprise to many fans.

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sports, nll, national-lacrosse-league, lacrosse, lax, calgary, calgary-roughnecks, jersey, calgary-herald, sports-jersey

NLL rule change: scoring from behind the net is allowed

Tue Dec 5, 2006 8:24 AM EST

The 2007 NLL season will bring a rule change when it starts this December. More specifically, the change concerns the rule that makes scoring from behind the net illegal. Starting this year players will be able to be positioned behind the net and have any goals they score count.

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sports, lacrosse, lax, nll, national-lacrosse-league, rules, scoring, goalie, safety

DVD Review: Annapolis

Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:34 PM EST

Last night I watched Annapolis which I rented during my two week trial membership for Blockbuster Online. Before last night I hadn’t heard any reviews from friends, family or even strangers about the quality or even story-line for Annapolis.

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entertainment, dvd, annapolis, review, james-franco, donnie-wahlberg, movie-review, movie

Announcing IconBuilder 8.1

Seeded on Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:49 AM EST (iconfactory.com)

Version 8.1 adds full support for building Windows Vista icons including updated grid files and Photoshop actions. It also includes support for larger icon sizes in Mac OS X, multiple resolution TIFF files and a host of other updates and bug fixes.

technology, icons, iconbuilder, iconfactory, software, apple, windows, design, plugin, photoshop-plugin

Microsoft Zune gets bashed on CNN

Seeded on Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:54 AM EST (CNN)

NYT's Andrew Ross Sorkin reviews the Zune and tells it like it is. Interestingly enough, the female co-host brings out her new iPod Shuffle and they get into some comparisons between the iPod line and the Zune.

technology, ipod, zune, microsoft, andrew-ross-sorkin, cnn, mind-your-business, apple

Amazon.com needs to be smarter

Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:35 AM EDT

It's safe to say that Amazon.com is a behemoth when it comes to online shopping. It has been around seemingly forever and everyone I know uses it over all of the competing websites.

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technology, amazon-com, website, user-experience, review

Most active disabled person I''ve ever heard of

Seeded on Fri Oct 20, 2006 5:35 PM EDT (cjcphoto.com)

From the article: I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay For their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots. But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck.

wheelchair, marathon, race, dick-hoyt, disabled, running, rick-hoyt, video

What would you ask your favorite Roughneck player

Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:44 AM EDT

Soon I'll be interviewing a few of the Calgary Roughneck lacrosse players, both past and present — that I can get a hold of — and I want you to participate as well.

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sports, lacrosse, lax, national-lacrosse-league, nll, calgary-roughnecks, roughnecks, interview, questions, players

New features in Safari 3

Seeded on Fri Oct 6, 2006 9:44 AM EDT (Musings from Mars)

An Apple developer highlights three features in the Leopard build of Safari 3.0. Tabs on steriods Searching within a page Resizeable text boxes

technology, apple, safari-3-0, leopard, developer, web-browser, tabs, 10-5, safari

Downloadable TV shows can be profitable for networks

Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:49 AM EDT

Over the weekend, since I'm without cable TV, I've thought a lot about how the current model of television is broken in the "digital revolution". The biggest question I have at this point is, why isn't all TV on-demand TV (similar to what's being called IPTV)?

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technology, tv, television, on-demand, download, bit-torrent, tv-shows, network, iptv

Roughnecks picks from the 2006 Entry draft

Thu Sep 14, 2006 12:07 PM EDT

Last night was the 2006 NLL Entry and College draft and it was held at the famed Madison Square Gardens in New York.

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sports, draft, lax, lacrosse, calgary, nll, calgary-roughnecks, national-lacrosse-league, 2006-entry-draft, kyle-wailes

Why I like the iTunes 7 interface

Thu Sep 14, 2006 12:05 PM EDT

While I can understand why most people out there are taking issue with the updated interface in iTunes 7 I have to say that I don't really agree with all the harsh reviews of it.

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technology, apple, itunes, interface, graphics, itunes-7

The story behind the Wulder trade

Mon Aug 7, 2006 11:29 AM EDT

Since finding out about the Wulder Susheski trade I've been itching to talk about it. What it looks like from the outside is quite a bit different from what it really was on the inside and thanks to the help of a few friends I've got a bit of an insiders look at this trade.

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sports, trade, lax, lacrosse, nll, calgary-roughnecks, national-lacrosse-league, jason-wulder, kurt-silcott, susheski

What is Silcott doing to our Roughnecks?

Fri Aug 4, 2006 12:39 PM EDT

Over the last couple weeks we've been hearing about how this trade will benefit our beloved Roughnecks, how that new player will be the key to our new season, etc., etc., etc. All of this rhetoric is coming from our questionable General Manager Kurt Silcott.

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sports, trades, expansion-draft, lax, lacrosse, nll, calgary-roughnecks, buffalo-bandits, national-lacrosse-league, kurt-silcott

More lacrosse trades

Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:39 AM EDT

In the past week there has been quite a few trades between many of the teams in the National Lacrosse League. This was to be expected after the expansion draft where Chicago and New York ended up shaking more than a couple teams' rosters.

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sports, new-york, trade, trades, lax, lacrosse, nll, calgary-roughnecks, national-lacrosse-league, chicago-shamrox

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