Monthly Archives: March 2005

Yesterday, I became the proud owner of a Cingular Treo 650. This is an upgrade from my 2-year-old Sprint Treo 600. The biggest advantages of the new device is the muchly improved screen and backlit keyboard. The other advantage is … Continue reading →

Posted on March 22, 2005 by jetrotz | 3 Comments

9 days

Posted on March 21, 2005 by jetrotz

Today was a good pregnancy day. Amy had a doctor’s visit (Dr. Fisch) this time), and baby and mom received clean bills of health. This was Amy’s first visit with Dr. Fish, and she spent quite a long time. We … Continue reading →

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FireFox Goes Madison Ave

Posted on March 21, 2005 by jetrotz

Not clear if this is a student project or ad creative Firefox.org plans to actuallly buy ad time to show, but Screenhead (via Waxy.org links), seems to think it’s legit. Not bad, but then again, it’s not too direct about … Continue reading →

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Nice to see my employer, CNN, getting a tip of the hat from USA Today. CNN has created the first regularly scheduled segment on the blogosphere. Seen weekdays during Judy’s Wooruff’s Inside Politics, the brainchild of new CNN head John … Continue reading →

Posted on March 21, 2005 by jetrotz | Leave a comment

10 Days and Counting

Posted on March 20, 2005 by jetrotz

This is it. Ten days till Baby Trotz is due. From here on out, I plan to try to blog daily as we enter the final stretch. And stretching we are – Amy feels like it’s a whole new ball … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! picks up Flickr

Posted on March 20, 2005 by jetrotz

Flickr, that bastion of open source, creative commons, you show me yours I’ll show you mine photo service has been acquired by Yahoo! Rumoured to be on the trading block for a while, parent company Ludicorp confirmed the deal today. … Continue reading →

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TalmudPod

Posted on March 17, 2005 by jetrotz

For the Torah-studying scholar on-the-go, 23-year-old entrepreneur Yehuda Shmidman has created the ShasPod, a 20GB iPod filled with the equivalent of 2,700 pages of the Talmud as read and commented by Rabbi Dovid Grossman of Los Angeles. The $399 price … Continue reading →

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The first review of the PC version of Brothers in Arms is out, and there are high marks all around. IGN.com offers up a 9.1 rating, and this closing paragraph sums up their take: Like most of us here at … Continue reading →

Posted on March 16, 2005 by jetrotz | Leave a comment

CNN’s Anderson Cooper by Diane Arbus

Posted on March 16, 2005 by jetrotz

As featured in last Friday’s New York Times (free registration required), there is a new retrospective of Diane Arbus’ spooky photography currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum after touring several other US cities. Baby-rearing blog DaddyTypes points out a … Continue reading →

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April Fools?

Posted on March 14, 2005 by jetrotz

The outlaws at ThinkSecret are reporting today that Apple will release Tiger on April 1st, the next major upgrade to the OSX operating system (full feature rundown for v10.4 here). Apple will officially announce Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger’s release … Continue reading →

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