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I just downloaded yahoo go and so far it’s pretty nice, but it needs better support for capture cards as mine is not supported. I know it’s just in beta, but I hope they keep at it, because it’s already very usable. Tivo should be scared.

I drive a 1999 honda civic SI, I get about 26-30 miles a gallon depending on how i’m driving, city/highway. It is fairly respectable as far as gas mileage goes. My wife drives a 2001 Toyota Rav4, which gets just slightly worse. Times are a changing and all those a$$holes driving big huge gas guzzling SUV’s are finally having a reality check. I’m pretty sure we are going to hit $4 a gallon this year and guess what that means. All prices go up and we are going because everything is linked to fuel in some direct or indirect manner. I really want a hybrid, but the maintenance costs scare the hell out of me once there is no warranty. I want to know why small business owners Hummer’s are a Huge Tax deduction and not fuel efficient vehicles. Why aren’t solar panel’s for my house cost effective. Free clean energy is sitting right under are nose, we just need to make it affordable for the masses. Why isn’t our government pushing for this, WHY WHY WHY???????

BIG OIL COMPANIES PROFITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thats why!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry if this was a long drawn out rant, but i’m just annoyed with big oil and our government.

Looks like BARcamp Chicago is working on being organized for this summer. Anybody going? Drop me a line. Chicago doesn’t get anything fun for techies anymore so this should be a good time.

Just showing some Google Calendar love. The best calendar out there and it isn’t even 24 hours old. Now they just need to integrate it into Gmail and it will be almost perfect.

vyew.com is totally taking online collaboration to the next level. I think this may be one of the “Web 2.0” apps to come out yet. I digg it.

Check out Pink’s “Dear Mr. President”, great song!!! I never thought i’d say that about a pink song. Your can thank Perez Hilton or I would have never of listenened to this. (one of my guilty pleasures is celebrity gossip)

Spent a few hours in second life last night over on the Slackstreet Backlot and on10 island chatting with Eric Rice. I finally get what all the fuss is about. It really is the next frontier. There is a real opportunity in this virtual world. Hmm, I wonder if my first business venture may be virtual… Maybe it’s time to incorporate Zemote Media LLC or Zemote Ventures INC.

I had a script running downloading some updates, but the script never cleared unneaded files and disk usage went to 100%. Not sure how long this has been, but i’m assuming a few days. Guess that is a hint to post to my blog a bit more often 🙂

The movie industry just doesn’t get it. They blame all their problems on Piracy, yet I don’t know a single person that actually downloads movies. I think downloading of movies is far over blown, it just takes too long. I get 800K per second downloads yet it’s still too slow for movies. The nice thing about downloading music was the instant gratification. Most of us that use computers need that instant gratification and downloading movies just doesn’t give us that.

The real root of the Movie industry’s problems is lack of compelling movies. I think I saw 3 movies total this year at the theaters, The Wedding Crashers, 40yr Old Virgin, & Walk the Line. Those were the only 3 movies that interested me enough to see them in the theater. Guess what my entertainment has been, exactly in this order, The Internet, HDTV, Music, DVD’s, videogames.

I think the real problem why everyone’s sales are down is there are too many options to consume media. Think of it, how many options did you have 5, 10, 20 years ago compared to what we have today to consume media. I know I consume more media today than I did 10 years ago, I just get it from more sources which declines how much I pay to each source.

Movie industry, you better not sit on your fat asses and whine about piracy, because it’s not your real problem. The problem is the market changing and you have to change with it or your going t0 get left in the dust by people that see the writing on the wall.

Good luck, your so screwed!!!