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I don’t know what is more surprising, the fact that Geocities was still around after all these years, or how much Yahoo paid for the site 10 years ago.  I remember back in the late 1990s when personal web pages were popular, and one of the best free services around could be on found on […]

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With Category 5 Hurricane Dean bearing down on the coast, the disaster in the making will prove interesting as it unfolds. 3000 people were evacuated from Ambergris Caye/San Pedro. Hurricane Mitch in 1999 caused tremendous damage on the island. With this one gunning just north of Ambergris Caye, the damage may prove […]

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Now normally, I like being nationalistic, pro-Taiwan and everything of the sort.  But China Airlines (you could call it the Taiwanese national carrier despite the name China) is a airline that is like ‘persona non-grata’ in my family.  Trips to Taiwan are only allowed on US carriers…namely Northwest Airlines (but United is OK too).  The […]

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yup, big network tv sucks….these days.  Like I noted yesterday, ratings for broadcast TV paled in comparison to the Disney channel…for two days in a row.
“Musical 2″ also dwarfed the broadcast competition to become the most-watched Friday telecast in more than five years. It drew as many viewers as the Big Four broadcast networks combined […]

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wowee…
The follow-up to the phenomenon that was “High School Musical” drew an estimated 17.2 million viewers on Friday night, a figure Disney Channel boasts makes it the most-watched basic cable telecast ever. That’s an eight percent bump from the Sept. 23, 2006 “Monday Night Football” telecast, which gave ESPN the previous record.
Guess I wasn’t the […]

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