From Scripting News: 8/11/2004: BattleTorrent aims to make BitTorrent easy. You go guys.

Noted in various pc mags:

* Zoot software. Talks on the website about pairing with outllook and newsgator to handle rss feeds – which is my rss config. * File Viewer. Apparently a good way to browse/view files. * ThumbsPlus. Supposedly handles RAW files better than most photo viewers.

At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig : Travels Through Paraguay is absolutely the best Paraguay travelogue that I have ever read.

OK I’ll go further, it was a very entertaining travelogue period. Gimlette has a good dry style, which is needed for book about a country with such a tragicomic history. Paraguay seems to have a pretty unfair share of misadventures, some of its own making, and sometimes buffetted by outside forces.

During this election season, everytime you worry about our system of government – pick up this book and read a chapter or two. You will feel better.

Bulding a new system tonight and dropped the P4 as i was installing it. pins bent everywhere. @#^%#@#%. Thankfully it is a low end system I am building so I am not out $400 or more.

Here’s hoping that Sun gets this wireless chip idea working.

Continuing to look at vaca property in the area – Sam Hobson pointed me towards this great tool – San Juan County Assessor - Real Property Search – the interactive map is really great. Very helpful.

Someone is using a new tool to get around my simple obfuscation techniques. I’ve deleted 30+ comments today. Time for new strategies. Probably time to upgrade to MT3.

Posted up at fanblogs – the Pac-10 is sucking wind.

A preseason list up at foxsports. OSU has only one player in the top 100. The Buckeyes will need some breakout surprises if they hope to achieve their goals…

* 1 Km bluetooth transfer – hmm I wonder if one could take over a bluetooth keyboard at a PC… * Keyscan remapping – wow I need this to make my japanese import machine work well – generating an underscore or tilde from the stock keyboard is tricky. * Ceramic lenses – sounds to me like digital cameras get even thinner. * Videogame advertising – this is going to be big. Videogamers spend a LOT of minutes in front of a game. * Find Your Spot. Ha, I filled it out, it suggested Seattle…

From my reading buddy Tim – Lists of Bests : News – great lists of all the best books and movies from various sources, and has an RSS feed so you can get the new lists as they point to them!

Big 10 full season schedule up at bigten.org (pdf). Includes for early weekends start times and tv plans – assume it will be updated as the season progresses.

Nice pointer from rich -- eCoustics.com - Everything Hi-Fi Online - Audio Reviews Car Electronics Home Theater Video DVD MP3 HDTV – aggregated reviews of all kinds of consumer electronics.

OK here we go – the first poll is out – no complaints about the Buckeyes’ placement, but can’t stand seeing the Wolverines at #7.

* SMC part number decoding. I wish I had had this last year before i applied AC to a DC solenoid. The “-5” that I referred to has nothing to do with the negative 15 VDC terminal on your power supply. I was referring to the “dash five” in your SMC part number, VF3130-5xZ where, 1 - 100 VAC, 2 - 200 VAC, 3 - 110 to 120 VAC, 4 - 220 VAC, 5 - 24 VDC, 6 - 12 VDC, 7 - 240 VAC, 9 - Other * Buy pneumatic couplings online at Homier * OK not that pneumatic but here is a circuit design for driving something with sound – some people suggest hooking this to “a solid-state relay (110 VAC) or a Darlington sink driver (12 or 24 VDC) in order to switch your solenoid valve”.

Found a great company – Deckhand Detailing – did a super job on my boat today. Showed up as scheduled, full crew, whipped thru the boat.