Richard Chemel's No-Name247

Zune Problem Isolated to Internal Clock? Your Zune "Should" Work Fine Tomorrow

Itsnotabig truck over at the Zuneboards has an interesting post that isolates the problem to the inner clock in the Zune 30gbs. According to the forum posts, zunes should work fine tomorrow- but unless MS corrects the problem- the same thing will happen in four years again

It's an interesting read---a little too technical for me....but I thought I would post it anyway

Zuneboard

BBC

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Major Internet Explorer Security Flaw Revealed! Experts Say to Use Firefox, Chrome, or Opera!

It was revealed that over 10,000 web sites are infected with a virus that  allows the stealing of passwords when using Internet Explorer 5.0 to IE8 Beta. Since there is currently no patch available from Microsoft, Yahoo tech blogger Christopher Null is highly suggesting that IE users use Firefox, Chrome, Opera or Safari, until a fix is available from Microsoft.

Yahoo Tech Blog
BBC UK

NICK AND STARR SPANGLER HAVE WON THE AMAZING RACE 13!!! Yet the West Coast airing hasn't started!

It's 7:23 pacific time on the West Coast, and once again, we are step-children when it comes to the CBS. The Amazing race is over in the Eastern Time Zone, and stories are posted that Brother and Sister Team, Nick and Starr are the winners.

When are the networks going to program reality shows live?  CBS could have use MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, TV Land, VH1 Classics, or MTV2 to broadcast The Amazing Race 13 Live to all time zones, in addition to being on the network's broadcast feed. But No- The same people that condoned the pregnancy of Jamie Lynn Spears, and on Friday, released info on the death of a "Double Shot at Love" contestant Kandace Hutchinson, ( who died in an auto crash in October)- to hype this week's debut on MTV.  CBS snubs it's corporate nose at central, mountain and pacific time zone viewers.....typical of Viacom/CBS execs! 

All I can say is .......Why do I need to watch Amazing Race 13 now. I know who won!

AP

Buddy TV

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So Long Intenet Explorer, We have had a long Run....but Mozilla Firefox is my Browser of Choice!

I first arrived on the internet in 1993, with Prodigy, owned by Sears and H.R. Block, it was a clunky text only site, only adding pictures, forums, and chats as it grew in popularity. From there I acquired Pac Bell internet ( I was a beta tester due to my association with the LA Times), and I started using Netscape- and "I thought I was in Heaven". Then when I started my association with MSN Money, I had already been using Internet Explorer because it was better. But over the years, I added Firefox, and use it exclusively at work. But here at home, for my blog, it has been IE 7.0. But lately, I noticed it was slow loading, and scrolling was choppy, and some sites didn't feel right thru IE. I had already had Firefox on this computer, so tonite, I decided to try the pages I was having trouble with on Mozilla, and Whaddya Know?  I am not having any more problems.  So like a car that has served me well over the years....it's time to trade Internet Explorer in....

RC 12/6

The Weekly Vice- Dayton Ohio Car Runs Red Light Hits Pedestrian Scott Tegtmeyer - Video

I have written about Danny Vice and the Weekly Vice before, but today when I checked his site- it looks like he has added video content to the site- and it just blew me away. Cops getting hit by cars giving tickets, pedestrians being hit by drivers running red lights....You get the picture- or should i say video. I don't know if this is the new improved- Weekly Vice, but its on my list to check out on a daily basis.

The Weekly Vice

SUV Runs Red Light and Hits Pedestrian- The Pedestrian is okay!

Car Accident - video powered by Metacafe

Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Mary Schmich Outraged at Anonymous Vile Comments Made by Readers of Rape Story!

It's going to be a real long day for Sun-Times columnist Mary Schmich. Today she wrote about her outrage after reading some of the vile, and prejudical comments readers left in the comments section of a teen's rape story. She said clicking on the 'report post' was like "rowing upstream with a broken shovel". Let's see Schmich writes for a major newspaper, and doesn't realize that readers vent there frustations and views, sometimes using their real names- but most times using a unique name to mask ( as we used to call it on AOL) their identity. The problem for Schmich is - her story gives her email address, and allows for readers comments. So Mary, good luck with your day. You will need it.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Alphainventions.com- A Real-Time Service For Bloggers!

When I started seeing hits from alphainventions.com, I thought- What the hell?  Everytime I would post- this site would show as an almost immediate hit. Then I went to the site, and found that its a site that tracks blogs in real time for other bloggers.- According to the site's About Me: Alpha Inventions connects webmasters with each other in real-time by providing traffic to webmasters from other webmasters as soon as they publish a blog from Blogger, Word Press, Type pad, and Msn.  Simple.

Interesting concept, and its just starting to get noticed by bloggers. Don't fully understand it's capabilities, but i am sure it will trickle down to my mind sometime soon.

Alphainventions

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Rock Band 2 Cheat Code? Red, Yellow, Blue, Red, Red, Blue, Blue, Red, Yellow, Blue

I just found this on the web, and thought I'd post if for all those Rock Band 2 Players that have no patience for playing the game- but just want to Rock and Roll. The code according to Kesins.com is: Red, Yellow, Blue, Red, Red, Blue, Blue, Red, Yellow, Blue.  Just go into the game modifier screen- and enter the code.

Kezins.com

Rock Band official Site

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CNN Identifies Captured Kidnapper Clark Rockefeller As Nelson Rockefeller - OOPS!

  In a rush to get the news up that alleged Kidnapper Clark Rockefeller had given up to the FBI, and his daughter Reigh Boss was safe- CNN.com mislabeled Rockefeller as Nelson Rockefeller- former NY Governor and Vice-President of the United States. It was interesting that CNN masked Reigh Boss's face- while Fox News did not. Come on CNN get some Fact Checkers....(3:29 PDT) 34 minutes and its still up-  (3:45PDT) The story was just updated- they show Reigh's face, but the picture caption wasn't changed (4:55PDT) someone at CNN woke up!

Fox News- Clark Rockefeller Gives up

Nelson Rockefeller- Wikipedia

CNN Story - Rockefeller Gives Up

Photo is from AP/FBI

Scrabulous Returns in the Form of Wordscraper On Facebook!

They're back. The creators of Scrabulous, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla have created Wordscraper for Facebook users. Wordscraper appears not to resemble the former game that was taken off Facebook, or Scrabble brand Board game from Hasbro. In one day on Facebook, the new game has seen over 3,500 users, but that is a far cry from the half-million Scarabulous users. Scrabble on Facebook only has a little less than 65,000 users. I would imagine the legal team from Hasbro is reviewing Wordscraper- as they are greedy!

Wordscraper is a new game on Facebook- Silicon Alley Insider