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Wow, its been awhile since I’ve blogged!  Life has moved on and we are now a few short days away from the arrival of our first child, a baby girl who will be named Kyla Marie.  Danielle and I our both very excited, but beginning to get a little nervous about the changes that are coming.  Wow, my last post was about how upset I was that McCain won…. I guess life has moved on there now as well as now I just don’t care.  He has my vote only because the opposition is so terrible.  Is he my favorite candidate? nope not even close, but he has been saying some things lately that has won my vote over.  Other than that work is the same as always it brings the paycheck in and is the easist job I’ve ever had so I can’t really complain.

Well, after Fred dropped out last week I started thinking as long as McCain doesn’t win i’ll be happy.  Now with McCain being declared winner in Florida, the first winner take all State,  I am a little worried about this election.  As a true conservative I can not see myself voting for him and I surely can’t see myself voting for Obama, who I think will be the nominee on that side.  So who would that leave me voting for?  Who knows I won’t sit out a year because of my theory that if you don’t vote you don’t get to complain.  I guess time will tell,  at this point I’m still pulling for Romney as he is the most sane of the remaining.  McCain scares me as a conservative … Huckabee scares me as a person and as a Christian.  He is just plain outright nuts and not what we need at this point.  I guess we will see in the days to come as more than likely Giuliani will drop out, and word is will endorse McCain.  What has happened to the Republican party?  Wow this was a pretty non-sensible rant…

This has got to be the funny Arrest photo I have seen in my entire life.  Apparently this guy was arrested for a drug-related double murder. News Story

About six months ago I signed up for a Hulu.com invitation and had really forgotten about the site until receiving my invite a little while ago and let me tell you I am impressed.  First off I guess I should tell you what Hulu is… Hulu is a joint development funded by NBC and News Corp (Fox, FX, etc).  The goal was to create a site where content could be posted for both networks and ad revenue could be collected.  This was in relation to NBC’s pulling out of the iTunes Music Store with their content and also trying to get ahead of CBS which had launched their online free streaming TV shows.  I was a little leery about how viewable the content would be, it is just a flash encoded video after all.  I mean who wants to watch TV shows in a small box on the website?  I was surprised when logging into Hulu for the first time with the wide variety of content, not only new shows such as House, Family Guy, Chuck, and The Simpsons, but also older shows that I had not seen in forever like WKRP in Cincinnati and they even have the full season of Firefly.  There is even a few movies provided by Universal and 20^th Century Fox.  It’s not all free you are subjected to 10 second commercials ever so often (far less than you would be subjected to watching it on TV).  My only complaint is that the commercials are not seamlessly placed into the show as they would be at broadcast sometimes you’ll see a few seconds of a new scene before the commercial will kick in.  Yeah I know this is a boring post but it’s been awhile so I had to post something..

Well according to the RIAA’s henchmen it is, but the courts will decide if that is true.  The RIAA claims that when you rip a CD you are making an unauthorized copy of their property and even if it is for your personal use you are violating copyright law.  In other words you pay your hard earned money for a CD which more than likely only has a few songs on it that you actually wish to purchase, you now want to listen to said CD while jogging and rip it to mp3 format to put on your handy dandy MP3 player and suddenly you are a criminal????  Since Apple itself estimates that only about 4% of the music found on iPods are songs purchased though the iTunes music store they could be liable for the consumer’s use of their product.  Where has the legal system of our country gone?  Why it is that I no longer have the ability to use the property I purchase in the ways I desire?  Because of the actions of the RIAA I have not purchased a CD in years and no I don’t download music from P2P sites or obtain music by any other illegal (or questionably illegal) means.

AOL announces it will stop production and support for Netscape Navigator after February 1, 2008.  I can’t say that this move really surprises me Netscape has not had any significant market share since the late 90’s and has been over taken in the hearts of anti- Microsoft users with Mozilla Firefox.  In fact AOL’s last release of Netscape was nothing more than a skinned version of Firefox branded to look like the Netscape brand.  So farewell Netscape you were the first browser to graze my desktop and the legacy of Netscape still lives on in some way in Mozilla Firefox.

I usually don’t care to much about news stories from other countries, but this story out of Rome just cracked me up.  Apparently The parking chief for the city of Rome was caught Friday night parking in a tow-away zone while he went into a local restaurant to grab a bite to eat.  What makes this story even more ridiculous is that he was using an expired handicap parking pass that was issued to a senior citizen.  Apparently he did this knowing that the city does not tow away disabled persons vehicles no matter where they are parked.  After the local newspaper ran a story on the event the mayor promptly fired the parking chief.  Atleast some people get what is coming to them.

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It has been along time that I have been wanting to hear those very words and I really hadn’t been expecting it this season   But, as of today unless the Mountaineers screw up next week against Pitt they will be playing for the championship.  And hopefully Pat White will win the Heisman, he certainly deserves it after this weeks performance where he was deathly sick and played great.  Now lets just hope WVU doesn’t pull a normal WVU move and lose to a team they should obviously beat with their hands tied.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone try not to eat to much (like I will) and be sure to watch lots of football and just relax.