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Big 10 College Football - Fanblogs.com: Krenzel May Not Play – it’s a good thing we have that running game to fall back on. This is going to be a tough game for OSU.

Openwave’s Thomas Reardon Named One Of The World’s Top Young Innovators By Technology Review, MIT’s Magazine Of Innovation

The latest works – the first is just amazing.

JD’s New Media Musings: September 14, 2003 Archives – of course this will happen, I scanned all the software choices this weekend for more private file trading (purely for personal non-infringing backup use in my home) and it is going to be easy to go dark.

I saw a quote from David Bowie this weekend in the NYTimes where he said (from my memory, forgive any misquote) “in the future, recorded music will not be a moneymaker, but be an advertisement for live performances by the artist”.

Finally, Mitch Kapor points to this quote by Adam Eisgrau – “it’s time for the R.I.A.A.’s winged monkeys to fly back to the castle and leave the Munchkins alone”

NCAA College Football - Fanblogs.com: NCAA Rankings through Sept 13 – and their next opponent is…Ohio State. Can OSU dodge another bullet?

This is at least part of the story for OSU so far – ESPN.com - NCF - College Football Statistics – if they don’t get a handle on this, they are going to struggle against the top tier of teams in the Big10. 7th nationwide in penalty yards, this just can’t go on.

NC State vs. Ohio State - Sept. 13, 2003 thanks for the pointer Kevin.

I am a wreck. What a game. OSU certainly has used up their 9 lives. My top observations:

• Krenzel continues to be spotty. Smart in the first half, throwing short controlled passes. Missed a lot in the second half. And then yet again, cool as a cucumber and efficient in the OT.
• OSU still has no running game. The loss of Stepanovich at center is probably hurting. But clearly Hall and Ross are not guys who can bang it up the middle and find a hole. They look OK when they have some room to run, OSU needs to install some option plays, more draws and delays, more screens.
• NC State slowed down the OSU defense with all their crazy sets and motion. OSU eventually adjusted but this was a tough offense to defend. And of course Rivers is just a great QB.
• For the second week in a row, Will Smith embarrassed OSU with late hits on the QB. Coach Tressel, you need to sit him for a half or a game. He is not a great representative of the university.
• Punt returns are a rare breed without the halo rule. The punt has become a defensive play now, a chance to plant your opponent deep in their territory or even get a turnover. The threat of a big runback is substantially reduced.
• Obviously the lack of any kind of running game is killing OSU. Most noticeable at the end of the second half when OSU got the ball with 3 minutes to go, and could only burn up one minute. NC State gets the ball back, runs the 2 minute drill to perfection, and entered the locker room on a high note. And at the end of the game, the OSU defense was clearly tired. OSU must figure out a way soon to control the ball.
• OSU received some huge gifts. The fumble on the kickoff in the first half. The interception in the 2nd half which hit the ground, but was granted to OSU. The refs soon made that one up by granting the ball back to NC State on a fumble which looked like it was caused by the ground.
• In return, OSU tried to give the game back to NC State thru penalties. I think I counted 4 first downs thru penalties that OSU gave to NC State in the overtimes.
• Why NC State ran 2 QB sneaks on their final possession, none of us will ever understand. Especially when OSU couldn’t cover the receivers, or was giving up pass interference calls on every down.

Mike points to Steve Gibson’s DCOMbobulator – Life of a one-man IT department – very helpful tool and site; steve is a great citizen.

A feature request for my aggregator – NewsGator - the RSS news aggregator for Outlook – I’d like to be easily able to see the RSS feeds of the sites to which I am subscribed. E.G. I have a subscription to the feed from MediaSavvy, I’d like to also see the feeds from the blogroll on MediaSavvy. I want my aggregator to auto-discover the list of feeds and go gather their most recent headlines on my demand.

Back in the day when I used to actually visit blogs, it was easy to discover new websites by occasionally walking thru their blogrolls. With aggregators, I lose that behaviour as I rarely go to visit the sites, and so my reading list gets stale and static.

Reading Jon Udell’s site reminded me of this new feature of Exchange 2003 – Inside RPC-over-HTTP. Seems great for users, absolutely terrible tho for the VPN market – seems to me like this will decimate the demand for VPNs.

Nielsen//NetRatings: The global standard for digital media measurement and analysis. – good source of high level summary data on net usage. Home broadband user base grew 49% year over year!

Blue’s News: Message Board – the upcoming release of Half-life 2 is causing a lot of frenzy in the video card industry. Gabe at Valve currently seems to recommend the ATI 9800, tho Nvidia is spinning hard. It is fascinating that the release of a single game can cause so much angst, and as a user it is great to see these vendors trying to kill each other because I am going to get much faster video cards as a result.

Meanwhile Valve has released the new Steam client and the website is DOA, i assume it is getting hammered with traffic, so that is good for Valve.

It’s surprising to us how little ongoing coverage there has been of the death at Disneyland last week. Maybe because we were just there, and just on the ride, we expected to see more coverage and concern. We’ve see no outrage from the family of the victim or from the other injured parties. Disney must be bending over backwards to help them all?