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.

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…