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GoldFrapp
Ride A White Horse

Now take me dancing
At the Disco
Where you buy your
Winniebago
I wanna ride on a white horse
I want to ride on a white horse

When the light turns into darkness
Will he turn up to explain us?
I wanna ride on a white horse
I want to ride on a white horse

Lend me a whole new world
All night
Feel life
When is there ever sense
To love
This world

In the whirlpool
We’ll go deeper
In this world that’s
Getting cheaper
I wanna ride on a white horse
I want to ride on a white horse

I like dancing
At the disco
I want blisters
You’re my leader
I wanna ride on a white horse
I want to ride on a white horse

Oh I love this feeling
Feels like forever
Oh I love this feeling
Feels like real
Leather

I saw this one coming from a mile away.  Circuit City Files for Bankruptcy.

You can only have shoddy stores and push sales people for so long.    I was in a Circuit City several months back, and vowed never to go again.  Best Buy seems to have the better store layout, and mostly great sales people on the floor.

Circuit City was the electronics store in the area I live in for quite some time.  They just seemed to go down hill rather quickly starting about ten years ago.

There is mention in the article of not being able to receive goods in time for black Friday if they do not get relief.  I wonder how big black Friday will be this year anyways?

Scissor Sisters
“I can’t decide”

I can’t decide
Whether you should live or die
Oh, you’ll probably go to heaven
Please don’t hang your head and cry
No wonder why
My heart feels dead inside
It’s cold and hard and petrified
Lock the doors and close the blinds
We’re going for a ride

So a few weeks back - the gmail team released the am I drunk test for sending emails.  Quite a fancy update for a product still in beta.   Today, I see that they have unleashed emoticon icons for gmail.

Now that the team is adding “for fun” type things - can we bring it out of beta?  Or is Google pulling the wool over our eyes - is the beta monicker a joke now?  I don’t get it.

A little over a year ago, I switched routers.  I went from my trusty Linksys WRT54G to a ZoneAlarm (CheckPoint) Z100G router.  My wife would be working from home now and I wanted a beefed up router for our home network.  The Check Point router had all kinds of bonus features for small office use.  It was really rock solid.  Over time though, I found its many shortcomings.  There is no QoS.  Running video and VoIP - I really needed a router that had good QoS.  The number of connections are limited.  At any one time I can have up ten devices on my network, and this box limited the number of outbound connections to 5.  I soon had to buy more seats.  With network printers, NAS, computers, and Tivos - you can run out of 5 seats rather quickly.

I finally had to give up on the Z100G router.  Last night, I dusted off my trusty Linksys WRT54G and flashed the router.  Afterwards I immediately loaded the Tomato firmware on it.  The routers has been happily running, it has great QoS built in to the firmware.  I’ll do another post more in depth on Tomato firmware later with links to helpful sites.

Sorry for the lack of posts over the last week.  I have a head cold that has me down and out.  I can not seem to shake it for nothing.

Pace Is The Trick - Interpol

You can’t hold it to tight
These matters of security
You don’t have to be wound so tight
Smoking on the balcony
But it’s that sleaze in a park
You women you have no self-control,
The angels remark outside
You were known for insatiable means
I don’t know a thing

Today, OpenOffice 3.0 was released to the masses.

As of now it looks like the site is having a hard time coping with massive downloads.  I’ll spare you a review or a run down of what is included.  You can swing a cat out in the internets and hit a dozen of these sites.

My question to you faithful reader.  Do you use something akin to Open Office - or have you souled out to Microsoft?  As for me - I use mostly MS Office at work.  At home I rarely have the need for an office type product.  I can usually get by with a text editor and some cloud computing if needed.

I am going to try and download Open Office 3 later in the week and see how it looks.  I am not sure what version I currently have installed on my Linux box at home.

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The drop in the DOW this morning - was wild.  I am not sure I have ever seen a +1,000 pt drop so near the opening.  If I was close to retirment, I would be crapping my pants about right now.  I am not even sure a properly diversified portfolio would save you at this point.

There is no doubt, this is a drop in the equities market like we have never seen before.  I wonder how much change will come out of this?  Will 401k’s be so heavily weighted in stocks any longer?

The G7 are meeting this weekend to discus the financial systme crisis.  Is there the possibilty of a sweeping nationalization of the banks?

One thing is for sure - I have a lot more questions than I do answers at this point.

**Update**
Come to find out the DOW was not down over 1,000 pts this AM.  Yahoo! was having issues.

A new feature.  Where I give you a snippet from a song.  Nothing fancy.

Little Motel - Modest Mouse

We treat mishaps like sinking ships and
I know that I don’t want to be out to drift
Well I can see it in your eyes like I taste your lips and
They both tell me that we’re better than this