the official motivation behind shelving Ghost for the GameCube. "In order to provide the game envisioned by the console team, a set and readily available online solution was needed," said the moderator. "Unfortunately the GameCube has no online service and since so much work is going in to the online portion, it would be additional work to release only part of the intended game."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Playstation has no online service either, just the ability to connect online, which the GameCube also has. If the connectivity for the PS2 is via battle.net, and so is the GameCube, where's the issue?

Or, perhaps, Blizzard will eventually drop support for XBox and PS2 as well, and let the game disappear into the world of Duke Nuke'm...

The Fiqh Council of North America, after consultation with Muslim astronomical consultants who evaluated credible moon sighting reports, declared Thursday, November 3 as the first day of Shawwal and Eid al Fitr.

[ ISNA ]

We're looking for a few good coders at my day job:

At Doceus our Developers architect and deliver solutions for small to midsize businesses, associations, and non-profit organizations. Duties include writing specifications and coding web based applications, generally database driven; and maintaining said applications, over their life cycle, for our clients.

[ doceus :: accelerate success ]

If you, or anyone you know, is interested, you, or the person you know, can apply on our site, or via Monster.

[ L.L.Bean - Outdoor Specialties since 1912 ]

I have a handy alarm clock that automatically adjusts for daylight savings. Thanks to the US Congress, I get to replace it next year:

Starting in March 2007, daylight time in the United States will begin on the second Sunday in March and end on the first Sunday in November.

[ Daylight Time ]

How on earth could congress make a change to the US policy regarding Daylight Savings and not have it be to get rid of it? Now we're extending it by another month (give or take)?

And, for those of us that write software, we need to think hard if we coded for daylight savings anywhere, and update that code. Perhaps congress is worried that we don't have enough to program, and changing the rules frequently will help to employ programmers...

After a long wait VS.NET and SQL 2005 have been released to manufacturing.

[ Miguel Campos Blog : VS.NET and SQL 2005 RTM ]

OK, I'll admit it, I don't know much about Macs. And, it seems, I'm not a wizard at Active Directory either. Googling how to "connect" your Mac to AD (on OS 10.4) has helped a bit, but I'm not sure how much I can trust the "this is how I did it" type how tos...

So, my fine readers, who also know about Macs and such, what book will give me the answer to this and provide me a good reference to the correct ways to run Macs in a Windows LAN environment? I'm putting you to the challenge, and I'm expecting big things...

For some reason I thought Rachael Ray came from a foodie family. Not only is that far from the truth, but when she "hit it" she bought the cabin she was living in. Not some fancy swank mansion, but a cabin in the Adirondacks. Now how cool is that?

Ms. Ray and her mom drove nine hours south in a snowstorm, and she nailed the "Today" show appearance. The next day, she said, the Food Network signed her to a $360,000 contract to teach America what she had been teaching the folks upstate. The first thing she did was to reupholster the old family furniture in the cabin. Then she bought the place.

[ Being Rachael Ray: How Cool Is That? - New York Times ]

Mark this one on your calendars:

The adventures of Curious George, a very inquisitive monkey, and his best friend, the Man in the Yellow Hat.

[ Curious George Movie Info - Yahoo! Movies ]

Opens February 10th, 2006.

I'm no Seth Godin, but it seems to me that you can't go wrong with a statement like this:

To fight Superman, you can't send an ordinary ape — you need Hanuman," he says, invoking the name of the monkey-god hero of Hindu mythology. "And Banrie is Hanuman."

[ TIME Europe ]

I'm rather sure I overheard a very similar statement in a meeting the other day...

Still don't have the phone, but I have a list of goodies to install, including this:

As the name suggests is does conversions - it supports four types of conversions, each with up to 10 categories. Currency Measures - 1 inch = 2.5 Centimetres etc Temperature - Celsius <-> Fahrenheit

[ "Convert It" for your Smartphone ]