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Major League Baseball Too Restrictive In Broadcast of Games

I am a subscriber of the Premium MLB.TV. This is an online service that allows you to watch any MLB game on the Internet at 700k.
But MLB blacks-out your local market games, so for me I am unable to watch the Colorado Rockies games.

The only problem is that I am in Washington, D.C., on business travel. So I can’t watch the live broadcast as MLB and the Rockies would like.

It would be nice if I am traveling that I would be able to watch the game. I guess next year I won’t give MLB their money and I will put it towards a Slingbox. Continue reading “Major League Baseball Too Restrictive In Broadcast of Games”

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Rolling Rock Commercial – Bring your Cup!

This is one of the most innovative commercials that I have ever seen. It is great and they are getting some great views on YouTube.
Let me know what you think of this commercial.

You got to love the web and the commercials that are out there.

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WordPress Email Post Problems

I don’t know why it is so difficult to have WordPress gather email that I send to a specific email address. This function seems that it would be easy. Send an email and have it captured in my blog.
For those of you who don’t know what is going on, you can read my experiences with this functionality in my tumblelog, Mile High Soapbox Light.

Why the WordPress software can’t seem to grab the email without stripping the body from the email, I just don’t know. Continue reading “WordPress Email Post Problems”

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Apple iPhone coming June 29th

Apple is now running commercials promoting the new iPhone and it is set to launch on June 29th.
It looks pretty cool. Let’s just hope that it holds up to expectations, the cost may be a limiting factor for many.

I won’t be getting one right away, but will definitely be interested once my current cell phone contract comes up for renewal.

Read the Newsday article, “Apple starts promoting its iPhone“.

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Simple Tagging for WordPress, Finally Working

Well it was not that simple, but I got Simple Tagging for WordPress working with my theme.
I first had to get the tags.php file working correctly and once I did that, it all started falling together.

Since I have that working, I have been able to tweak the index.php page and single.php page to reflect that I am using both categories and tags. Categories will allow me to group larger topics together and tags will allow me to focus on the specific so that I don’t get too long of a category list.

Continue reading “Simple Tagging for WordPress, Finally Working”

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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: historic discussion live from D 2007 – Engadget

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: historic discussion live from D 2007 – Engadget
Everyone made fun of the fact that they would be on stage and it would be awkward for them and their hosts. But that is not the case. You have two really professional and smart people who both started their own companies and became quite successful.

It will be interesting to see how this is played in the media, but apparently it is a success.

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Be Careful of Firefox Extensions

Be careful of Firefox extensions. There has been a vulnerability identified in some of the Firefox extensions, particularly the Google Toolbar.
You can read the story by Washington Post Columnist Brian Krebs, “A New Vector For Hackers — Firefox Add-Ons“

Google has since announced a fix for the security flaw that was identified by Chris Soghoian, an Indiana University doctoral candidate. He has documented many flaws in many of the popular add-ons.

Just be careful when you are updating extensions. Especially if you do it at a public hotspot.