Archive for November, 2006

The anticipated meeting between Chicago Bears and New England Patriots resulted in the Patriots winning 17-13. It was a sloppy, turnover-filled game with marred by awful officiating, but in the end the better team won, almost in spite of itself. Patriots leading receiver, tight end Ben Watson, coughed up two fumbles but also caught a [...]

The hard drive on the server that hosts my websites “died” – to quote my former webhost – a few days ago and that’s the reason internet128.com has been offline for 72 hours. 72 hours. How is it even possible to keep a server down for 72 hours? Do you position a sniper outside the [...]

These are rough days for the floundering, flailing Boston talk radio station WRKO. For unknown reasons, the toll-free phonelines to WRKO’s talk shows went down this morning, making drive-time talk-show host Howie Carr a very unhappy camper, in part, I guess, because his popular weekly Monday guest Max Robins was on. Ever the entertainer, Mr. [...]

Year in and year out the Denver Broncos have the best offensive line in the league. They also have the dirtiest offensive line, and last night’s Sunday Night Football game between Denver and San Diego Chargers provided a telling example. It happened late in the fourth quarter, with the Chargers up 35-27 and Denver desperately [...]

Dan Zarrella gets the Workhorse of the Week Award for his live blogging of PubCon Boston. Lots of interesting stuff for people who work with/on/through the interwebs.

The New England Patriots are a top ten NFL team that may or may not be able to beat a top five team, but it has no problems dispatching of the League’s weaklings. Today the Razormen blew out the Green Bay Packers 35-0 on the road. The Patriots launched an air offensive similar to the [...]

The Boston Globe‘s editorial pot-shot at the late Milton Friedman is a real piece of work, as exemplified by this paragraph: Friedman could not understand why people criticized his speeches in Chile in 1975 that aligned him with the Pinochet dictatorship. He compared them to his talks in China, which should have been questioned as [...]

As I was about to enter the down escalator at the College Avenue entrance to the Davis Square T-station I saw a black woman with a small girl a little more than halfway down the escalator. Right before my very eyes the woman suddenly lost her balance and slowly fell forward. The child started screaming [...]

While I’m against gambling I am very much in favor of Massachusetts licensing a very, very big casino so that the state can hold on to a good chunk of the money that is now spent by Mass residents at tribal and commercial casinos in Connecticut, New Jersey, Nevada, New York and other states. The [...]

As the Boston Herald reported yesterday, Entercom-owned Boston radio station AM-680 WRKO has canned its entire newsstaff. Now the news are delivered by Fox News Radio, “Live from New York” as the feed happily informs WRKO’s listeners in the Puritan hinterlands. It annoys me, it really does. It cheapens WRKO. What’s next? A drive-time talker [...]