Tong Family Blog: Newsfeed Readers – rich is struggling with a newsreader choice. Newsgator with Outlook 2003 is really a great great experience.

Over on ESPN.com Brad is projecting OSU for the Orange Bowl.

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The-Ozone: The Buckeyes have boarded their buses and are the way to Ann Arbor. OSU’s bus caravan departed the Woody Hayes Athletic Center not more than 10 minutes ago.

OK I am a pretty lame photographer, and so here are some lame halloween pics from my setup this year. Apologize for their lack of comprehensiveness, lack of compositional quality, lack of any kind of style whatsoever. And apologize that I created this page in Word2003 so it is full of all kinds of html cruft. Next year I’ll get the Sony camera mentioned below so I can get some night shots…

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Exactly how I feel about desktop icon spam – only i am not as humorous or erudite – Ask YOUR doctor about Mister Crunchy.

Very cool looking players but a rather annoying website – :: Welcome to monoONE ::. Another holiday wish list item.

For the Holiday wish list, the Daisy mp3/aac player, seen at gizmodo.

Matt Croydon::postneo is seeing some great comcast thruput – wish i was in his neighborhood – i test out at ~640kbps as promoted.

Reiter’s Camera Phone Report: Camera phones set to be fastest-ever selling consumer product – I am still not a believer. Camera phones are selling well because, well, it is hard to buy a phone without a camera now. It is like saying that modems must be really popular because every PC has one. I just don’t see the usage of camera phones growing at the same rate as their ubiquity – i don’t know that many people who have active moblogs, i don’t get that many pictures (well, i don’t get ANY) sent to me. Maybe I am in the wrong demographic. But to claim somehow that cameraphones are a more impactful consumer product than DVD players is just wrong – look at all the dvd sales, dvd rentals, dvd economic activity, and contrast that with the supporting activity around cameraphones. I can buy DVDs at my grocery store checkout now. I can’t do anything with my cameraphone at any retail outlet.

SonyStyle USA - DSC-F828 – because it apparently has a built-in IR light permitting night photos.

I’m with Scott Loftesness – I’ve got enough storage capacity now, I don’t need all the energies of the storage industry going into capacity increases. What I need are higher performance disk subsystems – given the cheapness of disks and ram, i am surprised we aren’t seeing disks with even more cache, with smarter caches, and i am surprised we are not seeing consumer storage subsystems with data striped across multiple drives, thus getting multiple read heads working on our behalf. And I need more reliable storage – I want my data auto-replicated across multiple disks so I don’t have to worry about backup anymore. Where are the mass market products that address disk performance and data reliability?

Here are a bunch of links to get you up to speed on the history of the OSU and Michigan rivalry. The Ann Arbor paper has a nice complete game-by-game countdown tho with a Michigan bent of course. They also have a nice interview with Bo where he recollects some of the highlights. The OSU library hosts a nice comparison site with some statistical highlights. And then a couple of lists of the best games ever, per OSU Alumni vote and per the Cincinnati Enquirer. For my money, the 1973 tie and the ensuing vote to send OSU to the Rose Bowl, surprising most of the state of Michigan, was the most dramatic game and outcome. I remember leaving the Big House totally deflated, thinking that the Buckeyes would be sitting at home. And then on the drive home, as the news came across the radio, our car and all the cars around us exploding with cheers and honks as the decision was announced.