I’ve mentioned this before, but again I really like the Broadband Home Report. Good review of industry activities around the broadband home. Interesting notes this month on home health monitoring; voip spam; China’s IGRS as a competitor to DLNA; Verizon’s FTTP product. Always a good read.

The good folks at Fanblogs.com (where I post most of my college football thoughts) did a nice site makeover, getting ready for this season. Good site to visit if you want passionate-but-thoughtful views on college football.

Had a good presentation in our team meeting today from the folks at Entellium: A Hosted CRM Provider with Powerful Workflow, Modular Pricing, No Contracts. What a great team, great to hear from them. Thanks for coming by folks.

NCAA College Football - Fanblogs.com: Preseason AP Top 25 - it’s out, OSU is #9 again. A gift really given the number of new faces that will be starting this year – I guess Tressel has a lot of believers

Looking for a pet sitter this past week and got some great recos from people. Here are all the services for which I got good personal recommendations:

* PetSitters Unlimited. * Whisker Watchers * All Day Dogs. * Kritter Konnection.

All the above came with strong personal recos from people we trust. Additionally we found this listing which might also have some good services.

Trying to work around the XBOX Live “you have a strict nat” problem. The XBOX team has classified NATs into three categories and apparently our Sonicwall is strict, which is bad. The xbox site is pretty quiet about what to do about this tho.

Ubisoft is just as useless.

Sonicwall has some disastrous AI-driven KnowledgePortal – someone was taking painkillers when they approved this project.

Netgear has some info that we are going to try – Port Numbers for Port Forwarding. We’ll see how that works.

All the functioning home machines have migrated. No real problems tho it was slow on one machine. Work machines today.

Love the “manage add-ins” feature for IE. Amazing amount of cruft that I found installed.

Several posts about Tivo getting limited rights to distribute copies of recorded programs – TiVoToGo goes legit - Engadget - www.engadget.com and Reuters coverage. This would be the feature that would finally get me off my butt and upgrade my Tivo box.

Marketing Playbook: Seattle Times on the Marketing Playbook: The Book – and they get some initial press mentions. Way to go guys!

Tong Family Blog: Military Reading List – Rich finds a great list here.

Deep Green Crystals: Oh, and Trackback is broken too – latest in a series of posts from him about his troubles. Worth reading again when I do the conversion

My ladder is 10 years old and getting creaky. Time to upgrade for Halloween projects. Cargo mag recommended this foldable one highly – Product Detail V18198 – up at qvc.com.

SANS - Internet Storm Center - Cooperative Cyber Threat Monitor And Alert System - Current Infosec News and Analysis – from slashdot. SANS seems to have an rss feed too.