I made a lot of changes under the covers of the blog this am. Changed a lot of details about security, directory structures, etc, related to my upgrade to Win Server 2003. Everything should be working, there shouldn’t be any externally visible difference, but let me know if something seems busted.

Great news for Ohio State – ESPN.com: NCF - Buckeyes reward Tressel for national title with new deal. While our coaching situation is solidified, our opening opponent, UW, is even more muddled with Neuheisel fighting his departure, Gilbertson admitting to participating in a pool (in a minor way).

Thanks Jason for this.

It is mind-boggling to me that this book exists –Amazon.com: Books: Bioinformatics for Dummies

Both of these come from markpasc.org – Shareware Amateurs vs. Shareware Professionals by Steve Pavlina – a nice dissertation on the right and wrong ways to figure out what product to build; and Eric Sink’s article on product positioning – the fundamental point being that marketing begins well before you develop your product, not afterwards; and that you better be able to simply articulate what your product is for.

As Jason says, Textamerica rocks. The perfect complement for the Nokia 3650.

My dad swears by this for fixing dings in his car – www.800webmall.com - Detailed Product Information. Lots of great “as seen on tv” gadgets up here.

The new Casios are out – a review of the EX-S3 can be found following the link at PhotographyBLOG -:- Comments; and the new Z3 with optical zoom is out. I have loved my current 2megapixel Casio, I am going to have to get one of these.

Oh reardon, this is dead on for us – hitormiss.org : American Idle.

Looking for self defense courses in the area. Home Alive seems like the best organization in terms of affordability and time commitment. BCC has some courses too. Insights Training seems like it might be for harder core people, some parts of the website scare me. A lot of the martial arts studios offer courses as well such as this one.

From Lockergnome I found Process Explorer v6.03, this is a super tool for seeing exactly what process is doing what to what on your machine.

Microsoft drops development of Internet Explorer for Mac – well it was always a force fit. I remember when Brad and I hired the Mac IE team – so many hurdles to overcome – hiring up a new team, based in the valley, to do Mac software. Seemed like I spent half my life justifying their existence and protecting them from the Redmond antibodies. Don and gang, you were great to work with. Wish you all the best.

Kevin Kelly has a great list of gear and gadget recommendations.

So what does Neuheisel’s firing mean for the Buckeyes? While short term it seems the UW program is in turmoil, the scuttlebutt out here is that Gilbertson is a more than adequate replacement. I suspect that the Huskies will be just as well prepared, and maybe even more driven to show the world that they are a great program, come the opener in Columbus.

Just finished Shutter Island. Great book, would be a good movie (some plot points similar to this year’s Identity). I see that Mystic River, Lehane’s earlier book, will be a movie later this year with a strong cast.