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Posts from August 2006

Can-Am League Offers Red Sox Relief

With the Cape League season long over (congrats again, Y-D), the Little League World Series finished (congrats Columbus, GA), and the Red Sox season falling apart (go Tigers!), it’s hard to find a good baseball game to watch. Luckily, for those near Boston, there is the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball. The league traces its [...]


Closer to the End of the Season (Fantasy Baseball Tips)

With only a few beach days left, the fantasy baseball season is coming to an end. In my Yahoo! league, we are halfway through the second-to-last week. My team is almost set for its third-straight playoff appearance.
Throughout the season, fantasy owners need to pay close attention to the saves category. Closers are not static, and [...]


Sony Takes the Heat for Apple and Dell Battery Recalls

Things aren’t looking good for Sony these days. The largest consumer electronics vendor in the world has had heaps of problems recently ranging from the rootkit fiasco, consumer complaints against the PS3’s future pricing, Blu-ray delays and problems with initial hardware, and last week’s Dell battery recall.
Now, Apple is recalling 1.8 million batteries used in [...]


How to get HD Content

Did you just buy a nice new shiny HDTV?
If you have cable TV (e.g. Comcast), you can get HD content for free. Your TV needs to have a QAM tuner inside of it. You can also buy external QAM tuners. Best Buy or Comcast will not tell you anything about QAM tuners. In fact, I [...]


Little Miss Sunshine

Forget Snakes on a Plane and whatever Will Ferrell movie is playing right now. Little Miss Sunshine gets the crown for the best summer flick. The movie is a comedy with a plot similar to National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983), except the destination of the family is not Wally Word–instead, the Hoover’s are headed to a [...]


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