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Apparently I’ve been living in a cave, because I didn’t know there was a Halo 3 Beta sign-up available for almost a month now.
Thank goodness for Last Boss.

We’re in New York, visiting Dineen’s parents for Christmas. Her father has just finished making us breakfast, her mother is at work, and Dineen is upstairs taking a shower. Alex is playing with a Fisher-Price bus, running over plastic pedestrians at criminally negligent speeds.
Nate, as he has done many times, grabbed my hand […]

ZFS. Sounds innocuous, doesn’t it? But when Daring Fireball reported that Apple’s OS X 10.5, code-named Leopard, would include support the new file system, I had to do some poking around. Turns out that this method of storing your computer files will bring about Armageddon.
Don’t believe me? Just look:
ZFS is a […]

From the “mailbag” that is my comments feed:
Hey there!
My website includes a link to yours within my list of Tampa Blogs:
http://sticksoffire.com/about/tampa/blogs-more/
Would you be so kind as to return the favor?
You can cut & paste, if you like:
Sticks of Fire: a Tampa website
Thanks for your consideration.
tommy
Sorry to post this request in your comments but i could […]

So it’s 9:30-ish on Wednesday night, and my TV is off, because instead of Day Break, ABC is running repeats of the George Lopez show. As if that crap gets funnier with age, like Mad Dog or Night Train.
It seems that the dentally-disadvantaged inbreds used to determine the Nielsen ratings stopped watching the […]

Justin Timberlake may be the only SNL host all season who’s actually been funny. Everyone else better give it on up for homelessville.
UPDATE: The “D*k in a Box” short left us gasping for air we were laughing so hard. Better than “Lazy Sunday.”

Sen. Bayh has dropped out of the 2008 Presidential race. He’s not alone:
Bayh is the third Democrat to pass on a presidential bid in recent months. Former Virginia governor Mark R. Warner announced this fall that he would not run for national office. Sen. Russell Feingold (Wis.) took his name out of contention shortly […]

He has saved a billion lives - more than any other person who has ever lived. He’s the only man in his field to win a Nobel Prize. He’s also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Public Service Medal, the National Academy of Sciences’ highest honor, and the Rotary International Award for […]

While we wait for the Bowl Championship Series to decide whether it’s going to set up a rematch of the Ohio State - Michigan game for the national championship or whether the Florida Gators will get a chance for the Buckeyes to frog-stomp them in the Fiesta Bowl this year, I thought I’d spend some […]