DNS Lookup and other handy tools on a web page and Router Logging Tools – thanks rich!

ComputerZen.com

Mirra Personal Server Debuts – I love the product concept, a box that handles all my home or small business storage issues. It will live and die based on the quality of the software – if accessing the files is funky, or if the backup is errorprone, or if it causes my file access to slow way down, then it will fail.

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.