Well, the cold continues. A steady diet of decongestants have almost drained my sinuses, but I wasn’t feeling exactly chipper yesterday. I spent a lot of the day sleeping, and will probably have a long nap this afternoon. Tomorrow’s Mother’s Day, and I haven’t even gotten a card for my mom yet. I’m sure I’ll figure something out, but I’d rather not be shopping in the gas station tomorrow morning, but it’s looking possible.
- Beginning today, Twins games back on cable TV on Fox Sports Net. Why? Well there was a vote on the stadium bills yesterday that shut down new stadium plans and the Twins seem to have decided they’d better get some positive PR before the legislative session is over. The Strib has more in the Twins are back on TV. [press-patch and strib]
- With Friday’s vote, the Stadium bill is down but not quite out. I’ve heard people say that the proposal is tax-neutral, but looking at the last one, it seems as though there’s going to be not only state, but city and possibly county taxes involved. But then I’ve been reading Jim Bouton’s book Foul Ball ISBN:0970911718 and am pretty suspicious of teams wanting new stadiums and not building them with their own money. [strib]
- In a quick reversal, Spider-Man Gets Picked Off Base by MLB. Bud Selig apparently does listen to fans sometimes. The movie studio’s marketing genius said
we never saw this coming.
[fark!] - A little Mac software company by the name of Colourfull Creations has two useful bits of software for the Mac. One is Simple Weather which just fetches the forecast and displays it in an easy-to-read format, and the other is Maxi Bidder, which is an eBay sniping tool.
- Sasser and other Worms Jack Up the Total Cost of Windows. A lot of Mac folks (me included) have felt pretty smug over the years as we’ve watched windows get hacked over and over again, but we’re just seeing the ecological costs of a monoculture. With windows owning such a vast majority of machines, it only makes sense that people are going to attack it. [slashdot]
- Bruce Schneier says We Are All Security Customers, and we need to think about security that way.
[M]uch of what is being proposed as national security is a bad security trade-off. It’s not worth it, and as consumers we’re getting ripped off.
Exactly.