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Well, I just did the update to 2.1. So far I haven’t seen a “LOT OF NEW THINGS” the way some people have seen, but then again I just did the install. I’m also still using the Tiger Style Admin (which I totally love!!!) and since I’ve been keeping up with my upgrades I’m not “seeing” a big difference yet. I’ve read that a good bit of it is “behind the scenes” and there are some functions like having a built-in spell-check (which I’m not seeing yet) and an auto-save function so the post I’m writing is doing a “save” every so often (which is a nice feature). Now, back to not watching “American Idol” (my wife is watching it… I’m keeping my headphones on and hoping that the noise doesn’t make it through my music… otherwise I’m worried that my brains will leak out…. but that’s just my opinion….)

News At Seven. Ran across this while looking at my Bloglines/Google Reader. I must say this is very interesting. I keep wondering about using something like this for the stuff we do at work. For now here is some info from an associated web site Infolab: Nothwestern University:

News At Seven is a system that automatically generates a virtual news show. Totally autonomous, it collects, parses, edits and organizes news stories and then passes the formatted content to an artificial anchor for presentation. Using the resources present on the web, the system goes beyond the straight text of the news stories to also retrieve relevant images and blogs with commentary on the topics to be presented.

Once it has assembled and edited its material, News At Seven presents it to the audience using a graphical game engine and text-to-speech (TTS) technology in a manner similar to the nightly news watched regularly by millions of Americans. The result is a cohesive, compelling performance that successfully combines techniques of modern news programming with features made by possible only by the fact that the system is, at its core, completely virtual.

Flash Element TD | Novel Concepts Great Flash Game!!! On my first time I got up to level 22. I didn’t read all of the site yet to find out more about the programmer, but this seems to be based on Warcraft player map games I used to play with Matt.

Shivering Isles confirmed for 360 – Xbox 360 News at GameSpot…. and that was the news article that I saw… No, I don’t have a 320, but if you read the article it says that they will have this out for the PC. And yes, this (Oblivion) is one of the games that I’m playing on the PC.

I upgraded to 2.0.7 and also switched back to my “original” theme… I just like it better for my site than the other ones I saw… that isn’t to say that I didn’t find other stuff that I might want to add/change with the site based on some things I’ve seen in other themes.

How to procrastinate effectively

This is one of those posts that you come across that I really should show to my wife…. if you knew her you would understand…. *grin*