Sadly, this won't do anything to help overall accidents. Whatever the number two item on that list will become number one, and we'll have to ban the next item on the list, or we can skip ahead a few steps and just ban bad drivers, but no one wants to admit that the drivers could be at fault here.

Oh, and I suppose it doesn't help that the number of fatal car crashes year to year has actually decreased since 1980 by over 15%, or that the number has basically stayed the same for the past five years or so. It seems pretty clear to me that cell phones are only the cause of accidents for poor drivers, not this evil scourge causing otherwise good drivers to drive poorly.

I was pleasantly surprised when our ancient DirecTV/TiVo unit actually got an update. Of course, the only thing I've noticed changed so far is a slight tweak to the menu layout. The un-official list of what's changed claims that the search speed should improve. Hopefully it will end up improving things; the slow menus can be really trying at times.

At the very least it should tide us over till TiVo finally releases the "Series 3" models and we can finally enjoy TiVo in HDTV.

I think it's one of the most fitting things that could have been done with the wreckage from the Twin Towers.

Well, I thought it was cute, so I signed us up. You can now see our Xbox blog about its daily life, which is mostly our Xbox complaining that we don't give it enough attention.

To the developers out there: The days of MAX_PATH being a sure-fire bet for filenames are long over. It really never was with network drives, but now users can quickly exhaust the limitation with some descriptive folder names. And, don't assume a registry value, the big culprit in my installation mess, is limited to MAX_PATH characters. Use the Windows' APIs like they're designed, and ask them how long the value is.

Though, I suppose he has as much chance of being right has the local weather forecast has of getting the weather forecast right for seven days from now.

If the site should go down in the new few days though, this is why, and I'll be trying to get it corrected.

I'm a bit surprised, but I guess I don't see much extremely rude behavior on the road these days. What I see on my daily commute seems to be mostly stuff I couldn't classify as friendly, but wouldn't have to call it rude. It still annoys me though, and I'm glad I don't have to deal with worse traffic every day.

Given how much they drive around, I've always thought it ironic that the rudest drivers I see in Seattle are the city buses. They love to take the whole "Yield to Busses" law to ludicrous levels.

Turns out I should have thought about it. The thing my fond memories failed to remember was the fact Uno has almost no strategy when you actually use the real rules, making it one of the more boring games to play against a computer player, or online players you'd rather not talk to.

Oh, and if you watch a player get forced to draw a card and he plays a wild-draw-four card, he's not bluffing! I'm amazed at what how much people online can screw up what little strategy there is to the game.

One thing I noticed during that broadcast was a commercial in the middle of an ad-block for the Hanso Foundation, the fictional mysterious company mentioned in the series. Of course, I only noticed it because I watching the show live, and apparently that's just what the producers had intended.

I suppose it was inevitable with a show like Lost. The producers have finally figured out a way to at least make me slow down how fast I speed through the commercials, in a hope to find more clues for the mystery. Either that or I can just let someone else figure it all out for me.

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