Needed some escapist reading and picked up The Road to Armageddon by Larry Collins based on a reco I read somewhere. What a piece of junk. Absolutely no style in his writing whatsoever. Nothing evocative at all. Uni-dimensional characters. Incredibly slow start. The pace picks up a little and I managed to get through the book but basically a piece of crap. Oh and a right-wing apologist theme all the way through; I am a little right of center myself but this was transparent and just plain painful to read. Even the binding on this book is crappy, like it came from a vanity press, not a commercial publisher.

Not sure I am really a believer in Social Software as a space, but Ross has a great collection of links if you want to get educated. I guess I just don’t think average people will ever go out and say “I need to get me some social software today”. People will use point solutions for staying in touch with family, friends, workgroups, potential dates, etc. But these solutions will be dominated by the application (“finding a potential match”, “workgroup collaboration”), not by social software.

Dealing with .pst Files – hey ben this is for you!

Phoenix unveils next-gen BIOS firmware roadmap – do I really want my BIOS bloating up to do all this stuff? I am not sure that I have benefited from BIOS bloat in the past…I think I’d rather have all these system management functions in my OS, wouldn’t I?

Walter At Work – cool, walter has a blog

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.

mentalbloc design CSS Quick Reference via evan

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…

Regular Expression Library – presented by ASPSmith.com Training

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.