- Microsoft: Silence of the Flaks looks back at the PR response to Microsoft's servers being unavailable last week.
- Couple catalog their junk mail and come up with almost 500 pounds of mail-order catalogs.
- VenturaLand is a new comic devoted to the doings of our governor. He's thinking of suiing them, since he's trademarked his likeness. The Jesse Ventura Page has all the stories.
- I've lost so much interest in major-league sports
over the past few years that I didn't even bother to find out the score of the
super bowl until this morning (and then I didn't try, but I knew it would be
impossible to avoid it and still check the news on the web).
For that matter, I didn't even try to check out the Superbowl Ads.
I'm currently reading Coming Apart at the Seams which discusses the labor troubles that led up to the baseball strike of 1993. Which happened after I'd started going to Saint Paul Saints games. I think I've been to four or five MLB games since that strike, and only two were in Minneapolis. The rest were in other cities, and mostly to see a park that was going to go away. I make it to over twenty Saints games every year.
I really hope Major League Baseball gets their labor and financial problems sorted out before the contract expires (at the end of the 2001 season) and there's another major strike or lockout, but I'm not gonna hold my breath. But there are only 17 more days until pitchers and catchers report for Spring Training 2001.