Using multiple MT blogs on a site, and trackback within a site. OK I am getting motivated to finally move to MT – Phil Gyford: Writing: Movable Type is watching me?

Rebroadcast of Fiesta Bowl on ESPN Classic. Saturday Night, 8pm ET – ESPN Classic - Instant Classic: OSU wins Fiesta in Double OT – set your Tivo now.

Buckeyes’ Physical Play. This was OSU’s key to victory in my mind – counter Miami’s speed with greater physicality. The Miami fans around us said they hadn’t seen hitting intensity like this before. It is the same level that we saw in the Michigan game. A speed advantage just doesn’t matter that much if you are getting hit constantly behind the line of scrimmage. OrlandoSentinel.com: Hurricanes

It’s safe to say the Buckeyes hit harder than any team UM has faced during its 34-game winning streak.

Blogs and Education. I am headed up this week to Forest Ridge School to present blog technology to some of the teaching staff and talk about how to use the technology at the schools. Very excited to kick this effort off. I’d like to see the school embrace blogging in at least 3 ways. One, to replace their current extranet site – a great blog implementation would provide a more current and interesting site, allowing posts from the whole school community. Two, as an intranet tool for classroom discussions and other communities in the school. Three, I really want to get some students to embrace blogs. Seems like we need better blog/IM integration than is available today if we want young people to embrace – based on my observation of how much time students spend on IM. We need to think really hard about what parts of the IM experience should be persisted over to a blog, and how this should easily work.

Implementing my reading list. This might be a site to use – All Consuming

Microsoft LogParser. Version 2 apparently available – The Furrygoat Experience: Microsoft LogParser

Msft Baseline Security Analyser. Worth running – Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

Fiesta Bowl. What an experience. The first Ohio State game ever for our kids, they will never forget it. A few highlights of our trip:

• the band, as always, was amazing. the drum major was outstanding, how does anyone move a baton that way? and all-brass makes such a difference in sound.
• osu fans outnumbered miami fans 10 to 1. It was like a home game. The stadium was half full 90 minutes before the game, started cheering a half hour before the game, and never let up. We stood the entire game. We were on the “miami” side of the stadium, which meant that miami fans were only outnumbered about 4 to 1.
• the setting was beautiful. Nestled in between two hills, desert sunset, perfect temperature. Fireworks after every score. We had great seats on the 35. While the facility is dated, it was a great place to see the game, and it is kind of a shame they are moving in the future to the cardinals’ stadium.
• most of the miami people we met were great. Very into the game and very knowledgeable. Very respectful tho a teensy bit overconfident – but who wouldn’t be with miami’s record of success.
• every waiter, retail sales clerk we met claimed to be from some town in ohio. Yeah right. But I am sure it helped their tips.
• the overtimes were surreal. Time seemed to slow down. Each play took a half hour to play out. They are all etched in our minds. When osu was on defense the place was wild with cheering. No one panicked when miami thought they won, everyone saw the flag fly.
• the miami folks around us were all a little taken aback by halftime. They’ve not run into a program like ohio state. The fans, the nonstop cheering, the band, the intensity of play – it was all beyond their experience. I am guessing that the Big East just doesn’t measure up to the Big 10 in tradition, fan intensity, or intensity of play.
• for me, the signature plays were when clarett wrestled the ball back on the interception, and when we drove in for our touchdowns on qb sneaks. Clarett’s play just demonstrated the intensity and focus of the team – he was NOT going to let miami get away with an interception. and the touchdown plays were classic smashmouth football – everyone knew exactly what play was going to be run, it was just team against team, player against player.
• lastly, our thoughts are with mcgahee, we hope he recovers fully. very sad for him to get knocked out of the game with a tough looking injury.

Video XB. Installed Video xb - Capture, Edit, Author and Burn professional style DVD’s (after getting my 1394 port installed below). Also smooth as butter! both the dvd and hard drive were automagically recognized by XP, again no funky third party drivers required. Very nice.

SIIG USB2/1394 card. Installed this yesterday – USB 2.0+1394 DV Kit. Smooth as butter under XP. Auto recognized, used all the standard XP drivers, didn’t have to deal with any driver cds or other goo. Very very painless.

Xbox Live experience. Installed this on christmas day. Overall a fun product but some issues. Whacked is a fun social game that we’ve been playing a lot. Very easy to join up with others. The big problem is the communicator voice attachment. It seems like a great idea, and I think when you are playing with known friends it will be fun. But wow did I hear some salty language in the random games, comments that were just not appropriate. And you can imagine sick people taking advantage of a system that let’s them talk anonymously to kids.

Samsung Uproar Phone. Grr. I bought this phone a couple years ago because of the included mp3 player. i haven’t used it much in the last year but i dusted it off and started using again. I wanted to load new music on it of course. A, the old software doesn’t work under XP. B, Sprint doesn’t support the phone anymore and there is no XP software on their site. C, Samsung doesn’t support the phone anymore and there is no XP software on their site. So I now have a phone that has a set of music, for all intents and purposes, welded into the phone for all time. After being introduced just a couple years ago.

Reinforces my determination to NEVER buy a device again that doesn’t support simple open formats and protocols. Vendors don’t maintain their proprietary crap and then you are stuck.

RIAA Statistics. From George Ziemann, a nice analysis – MacWizards Music – RIAA Statistics Don’t Add Up to Piracy

Seattle Area Blogger – Sonics Game Friday 12/20. Hey Seattle area bloggers, I have 1 spare ticket for the Sonics game friday night, and it’d be fun to meet someone in person and chat. Send me a note at the ignitionpartners address if you’d like to meet me at the game. Good opponent (hornets), great seats, and we can chat about blogs.

Rich Thin Client. Hey Rich, somewhat similar to that thing we’ve been talking about – Windley’s Enterprise Computing Weblog