I ordered new cable service from my cable provider a few weeks ago. We haven't had a landline phone in years and I worked it out and from what we could save by lowering our cell phone minutes we could pay for a VOIP phone that has unlimited anytime minutes.

Why does ESPN hire Chris Berman to do anything that requires him to speak?

Lance Armstrong

I still can't believe he's going for one more. He could have retired last year and gone out on top, but he's putting it all on the line again. He knows there will be contraversy, he knows there will be idiot spectators, he also knows he doesn't need to prove anything to anyone, except himself.

That's courage.

A cool phone comes down the pike:

http://www.i4u.com/article3719.html

Problem? It has a stupid camera. Not an optional camera but they threw one in there because "Why not? Everyone loves a camera phone!"

Except those of us who work for companies who forbid cameras of any kind from entering the building. It sucks that nearly every time a phone has come out that I think I might like to get "oh by the way, it has a great camera! 1MP even!".

I'm looking for a good Head to Head fantasy baseball league with very active and competitive teams. Anyone got any good leads, or want to help me form one?

I don't usually pay attention to apple hardware, but I have to admit, this looks pretty cool:

Mac Mini as HTPC

Johnny Carson (1925-2005) was hands down the funniest man to ever do late night television. He will be missed ...

eBay announces they are raising rates.

If I was another auction site like yahoo or amazon, I would be advertising HEAVILY over the next month. Ebay raising rates 60% is ludicrous, a lot of people were already barely making a decent margin, even some of the larger sites. Now they increase it this much and people won't be making a profit and therefore will have no reason to sell there.

Reading over the locker room comments over at steelers.com ...

Ben Roethlisberger has declared that he will donate his entire check from Saturday's playoff game to Tsunami relief. I believe he really cares and this isn't a stupid publicity stunt (after all, he's the offensive rookie of the year, how much more good press do you need)

I hate the NFC this year, not only are they filled with mediocre teams, but now they have two 8-8 teams advancing in the playoffs.

How absurd!

Today is the second time in recent months that I heard of a guy getting run over on the freeway. Its the first time though where I actually had to see it.

I didn't see the accident but I saw the dead guy laying on the freeway, blood everywhere, like so much road kill. I could be more graphic, but I'll spare you. What was the guy doing on the freeway, I don't know, but here's a good hint: If you ever, ever break down, lose something, whatever, on a busy freeway, STAY IN YOUR CAR.

So I've been going through the independant games linked off the /. games section, and I've found a few that are fun, but this one is annoying.

I say this, because I just spent some time going through the tutorial and reading up on it, thinking it would be a pretty fun game, only to try to make a game and there's no one to play.

So here I sit, in the games lobby, waiting for someone to play me.

So, for years I've owned the domain name "bengals.net". Actually, since 1998 according to network solutions, though I'm moving the domain name off netsol because, well, I refuse to pay $35 a year.