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1		Haga, Noriyuki	Renegade Ducati		Ducati 999 RS
2		Toseland, James	Ducati Fila		Ducati 999 F04
3		Chili, Pierfrancesco	PSG - 1 Corse		Ducati 998 RS

It was good to see Pierfrancesco Chili race again on his PSG-1 Ducati 998 after two blown engines and one wreck in Monza. Chili held on to 3rd place which gave him the points he needed to stay competitive for the Championship.

Mechanical problems on his Honda CBR 1000RR caused Chris Vermeulen to finish 15th in the race.

Race 2

1		Laconi,Régis	Ducati Fila		Ducati 999 F04
2		Toseland, James	Ducati Fila		Ducati 999 F04
3		Haslam, Leon	Renegade Ducati		Ducati 999 RS

Haga was on his way for a double at Oschersleben when his engine blew on lap 22 of 26.  It would have been great to see Haga beat the Ducati Factory riders one more time!

Pierfrancesco Chili fell off in lap 6 while trying to catch up with James Toseland in 2nd place.  The move turned out to be disastrous for the Italian Station.  

Chris Vermeulen continued to have mechanical problems with his Honda CBR 1000RR causing him to drop from 3rd to 8th place in race 2.

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There are 3 great races on the Speed Channel today

FIM World Superbike: From the Motopark Veranstaltungs Oschersleben, Germany
3:00 PM: Race 1
4:00 PM: Race 2

5:00 PM: AMA Formula Xtreme Series From Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, Ala.

This will be my first AMA Formula Xtreme Series race. It sould be pretty interesting because most of all of my favorite Honda riders from AMA Superbike like Jake Zemke, Ben Bostrom and Miguel Duhamel also race 600cc Formula Xtreme bikes like Honda's new CBR600RR.

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I found a great article on how to use Sprint PCS vision with Mac OS X. I tried it just before I left of a family road trip, it works great!

Right now we're in the van headed to Leesburg, FL. Suddenly, this trip just got a whole lot better.

I'm getting about 256kbs with:
12" Powerbook
Sanyo SCP-8100
FutureDial USB cable purchased at Radio Shack

This is awesome.

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A crowd of 9,154 was on hand last night to see Birmingham beat us 18 to 2, or maybe they were just there for dollar beer night. At any rate, a good time was had by all. And, for whatever reason, the fans stayed with the Jacksonville Sun right until the final inning.

I had a great time. It was nice to see Clark, Dave, Gabe, Travis, and Willey again.

The next Suns game I plan on going to is on June 2, 1:05 for the Businessperson Special - $12.50 buys a box seat, large hot dog and large beverage of choice. This is a pretty good deal, but I think it would be pretty fun to skip out on work for a ball game.

This game kicks off a nice 4 day weekend.

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The 10.3.4 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther" and is recommended for all users.

Key enhancements include:

-improved file sharing and directory services for Mac (AFP), UNIX (NFS), PPTP, and wireless networks
-improved OpenGL technology and updated ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers
-improved disc burning and recording functionality
-iPods connected via USB 2.0 are now recognized by iTunes and iSync
-additional FireWire audio and USB device compatibility
-updated Address Book, Mail, Safari 1.2.2 (v125.7), Stickies, and QuickTime applications
-improved compatibility for third party applications
-previous standalone security updates

Safari is now at version 1.2.2 (v125.7).

For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n25764

Update: My 'article' was listed on slashdot.

I've updated to 10.3.4, and I haven't had any problems at all. Mail and Safari seem much faster on my 1 Ghz 12" Powerbook.

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This is l the last thing a biker wants to say he did.

I saw this link on DucatiFan.com which as a pretty neat video section.

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This is a great travelogue that features Elana from Ukraine taking her Kawasaki ZZR-1100 (ZX-11) sport touring bike through the the Chernobyl "dead zone." It's filled with surreal imagery of the a very modern city that was abandoned after the melt down. It's a modern day Pompeii. The dead zone is now miles and miles of open road.

Click here for the full article

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"Unfortunately a fault was found in the engine concerning the cut off sensor which is used for rider safety in the event of the bike falling (once the bike is laid down the engine must cut of automatically within two seconds). The team tested the relevant engine part at the beginning of the season, when the bike was taken for testing after race two it was found to be faulty. For this reason Chris was disqualified costing him valuable championship points.

Chris is now 5th in the ranking of the World Championship with 83 points and Laconi is leading with 120 points."

More Info at WorldSBK.com

I was already pretty bummed out that Pierfrancesco Chili blew two engines in race 1, and then wrecked in race two. This was the most disappointed World SuperBike race I've ever watched. It's like an Italian opera.

"Before the desperate disappointment of a double DNF at the previous Monza round, Ducati privateer Pierfrancesco Chili led the world on his 998R-based Ducati machine. Even after two no scores at Monza, he still sits in third place overall, safe in the knowledge that he had an outstanding second place in race one last year. Looking for payback from lady luck, Chili approaches his 40th birthday in June with as much speed and aggression as riders half his age, ensuring his continued popularity to a global audience." - WorldSBK

I'm looking forward to the races at Oschersleben next week.

More News from Monza

chrisvermeulen.com

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I just installed CenterICQ on my Linux Box. It allows me to communicate via all the major IM clients (MSN, Yahoo, AOL, etc).

This works great on Drill weekend when I work behind a pretty tight firewall. I can SSH into my linux box, and do pretty much whatever I want.

Here's a link to the installation instructions. I used the RPM's.

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Scott and I just returned from our most successful trip to Oklahoma City. We spend 5 days in OKC. At the end of the trip, we had the database users happy to use our new application, and with a promise of more funding this year.

Monday
Arrived at the Wing at 1:00 pm
Met with our technical Point of Contact

Tuesday
Installed the new web application and database

Wednesday
Met with the users of the application

Thursday
Made several bug fixes and last minute changes

Friday
Left OKC at 10:00 am

More info about the E-6 Program

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Click here

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G4TechTV Website
Merger FAQ

Looks like G4 TechTV will keep: Anime Unleashed, Body Hits, Eye Drops, Fresh Gear, Future Fighting Machines, Invent This, Nerd Nation, Robot Wars, The Screen Savers, Thunderbirds, Unscrewed, & X-Play

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I found this program that lets me export my Outlook calendar to a ICS (iCalendar) file.

Outport aims to be a generic program for exporting date from Outlook (Outlook + export = Outport. Original eh? :-) ) to various email/pim programs. It currently it can export to the Contact, Calendar and Task formats of Evolution, plus a number of generic formats supported by Outlook itself (Rich Text Format, HTML, vCalendar, vCard, iCalendar, etc).

--http://outport.sourceforge.net/

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On Saturday I took my favorite ride around Jacksonville on my Honda 919.

Here's the details:

Argyle Forest Blvd to Blanding Blvd
295 S
Cross the Buckman Bridge
13 into Fruit Cove
13 into Orangedale
Cross the Shands Bridge
16 into Green Cove
17 on to Fleming Island
220 to Chafee
Chafee to Argyle Forest Blvd

It was a great day for it. The weather has been awesome.

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Okay, here’s the deal.

TechTV has been bought by Comcast. The Screen Savers and XPlay will be carried by Comcast’s G4 Network based in LA. Existing (Tech TV) jobs will be posted for those willing to relocate to LA. The San Francisco will be shut down by July. (I hope Kevin Rose moves to LA.)

more info on SlashDot
more info from Leo
info from Kevin Rose

So here’s the info on G4:
“ Q: What will a typical programming day look like?
A: The merged network will be the nation's premier 24/7 television network all about video games, technology and the gamer lifestyle. The G4 programming day will showcase many existing G4 and TechTV series such as G4's ICONS; PULSE; JUDGMENT DAY; PLAYERS, and CHEAT! as well as TechTV's ANIME UNLEASHED; X-PLAY; SCREEN SAVERS; FRESH GEAR; and ROBOT WARS. G4 will also premiere new original programming which will be announced at a later date.”

G4 / TechTV merger FAQ

“EchoStar Communications Corporation (Nasdaq: DISH) will have an equity interest in the combined entity and has agreed to make the channel available to its DISH Network customers who subscribe to its mid-level America's Top 120 programming package or greater.“

Comcast press release

"EchoStar Communications also will have a financial stake in the combined company, terms of which were not disclosed. EchoStar will distribute G4 on its Dish Network satellite TV service."

Coverage on CNet's News.com

I guess the good thing about all of this is that "The Screen Savers" will no longer be produced by a company owned by Microsoft's Steve Allen (Vulcan Ventures). I hope to see more Linux and Mac OS X coverage.

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