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Today was the end to a very long week. Not really a bad week, but just long and exhausting.

One of the big things, at least blog wise, is that I successfully converted my 4 year old WordPress self-hosted blog into Drupal. And everything went quite well! The thing I'm missing the most is comment integration with Feedburner, I want it to be able to show the number of comments on my posts. That is something that happens automatically with WordPress since it is the most popular blogging platform in the known universe.

I guess all that is left is to make a graphic for this post.... ok done.

Summer is now approaching fast, and as such, I have a lot of free time. So I'm looking at summer projects to do. Some bigger than others, and some quite geeky.

Obama picks tech team. All seem like government hacks. RIAA gets the state of Tennessee to throw away $10 million on spying on its students. MacArthur Foundation says Intern socializing is a good thing. New Honda Supercar, funny-looking. Google pulls plug on the unknown "Lively." Analyst  suggests that Nokia should be Yahoo.

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I've been spending some quality time with someone who's pretty special to me recently, and looking at lessons I could learn from their life.

Now that Yahoo is gone under $10 Microsoft is not interested anymore. Apparently the company is not interested when it’s a bargain. MSFT decides to do anti-virus for some unknown reason. Company also unable to promote Silverlight against Adobe Flash. HP story from yesterday actually explained. I run down all the stocks that are in the tank. 

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Currently having a hell of a time getting the time zones straight between Drupal and Ecto.

Sun Microsystems to fire 6000. Crazy wording in FT. Jerry Yang quits. AOL kills Homestead. HO Says sales are heading up, not down like Intel thinks. USB 3. released (finalized) today. I highlight two stories about USB 3.0 showing how bad today’s tech coverage has become. 

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Mark Cuban in trouble for insider trading. Vista Capable suit causing problems. Obama is going to have to stop using the Blackberry. Look for the AVCHD fake Blu-ray discs. Intel rolls the i7 as AMD rolls the Shanghai. Google has new sketch-up art program

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Microsoft shows Wave 3 of Live.com. Social networking part of the scheme. Apple will do search? Microsoft search bribery is working. OLPC still lives in England. Valleywag’s demise shows Silicon Valley is not Hollywod.AMD shows new chip and technologies. Dell CTO steps down.

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So I am surfing around youtube looking for a version of the video “The Metal” by Tenacious D and I stumbled upon these gems. Lego music videos of metal songs…

Unfortunately my two favorite videos have embedding disabled, but it is worth the click :
Metallica One - Lego
Tenacious D - The Metal

Then if you are a Guitar Hero player you likely know this song, otherwise probably not, but it is a cool guitar song: Through Fire and Flame:

LG, Sharp and Chunghwa plead guilty for price fixing. TroopTube takes over military vids. It’s run by the military. Go to budget.com/tech to help the podcast. Cisco is cancelling sales conference. Online gambling under review. Mars rover "spirit" getting dusted. Who cares what a phone costs to make? Sun Microsystems all over the news. The company may benefit from the "green" thing. Spammer host shut down. IBM looking at broadband over powerlines.

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Is Apple planning to design its own processor? Some think so. The G-phone is cheaper to build than the iPhone. Why is IBM antsy over Apple taking one of its key people. Apple may be developing a chip. More and more stories appear about the headset magnet magnets and pacemakers. Cray Supercomputer to hit 1.3 petaflops. 25 year anniversary of Windows. Nortel stock goes into the tank.

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Earbuds causing heart problems? Apparently. iPhone number one amongst adults. Seagate selling self-encrypting drives. Obama and the CTO story continues. No MP3 player from Dell before Christmas. Microsoft to turn to Sun Microsystems for marketing help. Laughable story. VMWare wants to virtualize cellphones. Why? Circuit City filed Chapter 11.

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