Engstrom plants Wildseed to change lives - 2003-09-15 - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)

Pants auction stresses Tressel – hey these pants are a big deal. My dad still wears his from his days playing under Woody in the 50s. (If any of you have ever wondered where my obsession with OSU football comes from, it runs deep in the family).

Gary Burd: NATs and Internet telephony – Gary points out that some VOIP developers are struggling with the implications of NATs. Like Jeremy, I just had a good experience with VOIP – I was a little surprised when I tried out my Vonage service last night for the first time, and the Cisco VOIP Modem automagically found its way thru the NAT/Firewall with no problems. It was a lot easier than I expected it to be. I have learned to avoid the PC as an end device like the plague for VOIP calling because I’ve never found PC mics and sound systems to be that great for phone calls, but maybe that situation has improved since last I tried. But using regular phone handsets with the Cisco modem supplied by Vonage was painless.

Falcons Enter Saturday’s Game Fearless – BGSU has the top-rated offense in the company, they have already beat Purdue at West Lafayette, and perhaps the biggest motivator – many of the players at BGSU were probably spurned by OSU and would love to take OSU down a notch. These intra-state games have been tough for OSU every year, this one will be no different.

Verisign is Pure Evil…“Elements of Style” for Weblogs…“Feed:” proposal…Office 2003 available and works great with Newsgator…Laszlo…Blogpulse…Gelsinger on desktop power consumption (bummer)…P2PForums

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.