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This season, I've scaled back my TV watching quite a bit. I'm crazy with TV - I get addicted to shows after about 30 seconds of watching. With that in mind, here are the shows that I am currently watching: Monday: Prison Break, Heroes, Studio 60 Tuesday: House Wednesday: Lost, Criminal Minds Thursday: The Office, Scrubs, Grey's Anatomy* Friday: Las Vegas* Saturday: SNL Sunday: Family Guy * indicates shows that my wife watches and I therefore get sucked into, despite the fact that Grey's Anatomy is totally unrealistic and Las Vegas is pure pulp trash. That said, I watch them both. Throughout the week, I DVR lots of other shows for miscellaneous watching: I do one daily King of Queens, because I love the show. I do Pardon the Interuption every weekday, because it's great in the background while cooking or cleaning. Also, in the bedroom I record Frasier and Mythbusters for watching while dozing off. I don't watch all of the shows in this paragraph, but I like to have a nice backlog in case I want to just chill for an hour on the weekends or something. Then of course we have the "sprinkled throughout" shows. These are...

I switched to Flock, and you know what? I dig it! It's really nice, and it's got some great features to boot! However - this is after a day's work. Know what else slowly swallowed my RAM? Firefox.

Well, I've made the jump from Firefox to Flock. I've complained about Firefox for long enough, and a few days testing has shown that Flock will serve my needs just fine. I have a few observations though, so keep reading for the details.

I saw an article today called Flat or Threaded? which examines the practice of "threading" a web forum. This has lead me to do some serious thinking about threading. Read on for more...

If you're finding this on Google or another search engine and you're considering a Zune, it's really important that you read this. There is information that I believe definitely proves that a Zune is a dangerous investment. I'm going to explain to you why investing in a Zune may be a huge, and ultimately very costly, mistake. If you've read my blog over any period of time (and I'm relatively certain that no one has), you've probably noticed my not so subtle conversion from Windows to Linux back to Windows and then firmly to a Mac. We are all Mac at my house now, and I don't try to cover that up. At work, where I choose everything from a technology standpoint, we are Windows 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server, so I'm not especially anti-Microsoft. Anyway, fair disclosure. Read on for the details.

I am looking forward to getting a Wii. Although I've owned a few game systems in the last few years, I've only somehow "come across" them, I've never bought one new. So really, the last home video game system I was really into was Super Nintendo, and truly, the last and best game system was NES. I still have and use my NES to this day. I will be excited when I get my Wii, but most definitely not THIS excited: But you have gotta admit, it is nice to remember how much something like this could make your day when you were younger.

A little humor for your Thanksgiving weekend. I found this clip... uh.... somewhere. I'm not even sure where. But it lead to watching these three clips, which had me laughing out loud. These are fantastci. I don't know if it makes me a bad person to laugh so much at other people's embrassment/pain/discomfort, but wow is it entertaining. All links are via YouTube. Annoying Devil 1 Annoying Devil 2 Annoying Devil 3 One more for the day: We all know this is fake. We all acknowledge that ghost videos like this are the product of a young filmmaker's imagination. But... this one is actually kind of freaky. Seriously. Ghost causes car accident via Google Video

Quote Abuse Man, this is "funny." via Flickr. Claygate Yikes. This is where we're gotten as a society. Rosie O'Donnell, who I didn't mind that much until today, has declared Kelly Ripa - who was, I thought - a friend of the gay community, a "homophobe" because she told Clay Aiken, when he put his hand over her mouth on the air to shut her up and she said "That's a no-no. I don't know where that hand has been." Okay, run-on sentence aside, this is cuh-razy. So, remember kids, if you're a professional interviewer and you're interviewing someone live on TV and some lame ass guest host slaps his stupid dirty hand on your piehole, embarassing you and touching your face in one dirty concoction, if you make a seemingly innocuous, possibly but not definitely snarky comment, you're a gay-hater. Rosie O'Donnell is a very outspoken voice for the gay community. To accuse someone of bigotry who (a) has no history of it, and (b) makes a VERY cloudily interpreted comment, and (c) is making this comment to someone WHO ISN'T EVEN GAY (admittedly, at least... and I'd add YET to that), she ought to be ashamed of herself....

I've been off the radar with sethadam1.com this last week, mostly because my free time was spent working on a new project for OSNews. I hope we're going to roll it out after Thanksgiving, but it's definitely the nicest code I've written thus far and probably the nicest site. A lot of what I wrote here is going to influence the way we move with OSN4. In the meantime, this new project is hopefully going to be launched in the next week or two and I'm hoping it makes a splash. In the meantime, I need a few beta testers to provide some feedback. If you'd like to help test a new site we've been working on, please post a comment below and I can explain what to do.

So we're really beginning to talk about the next iteration of OSNews. There are several things we're talking about right now, but since I've gotten a lot of web experience since the coding of OSNews 3, written several new and powerful web applications, and since we've, since rollout introduced several new features and several new optimizations, including multiple caching techniques, I've been trying to decide whether it's best to just fool with the interface, or whether I want to actually rewrite parts of the front and backend. I've written lots of apps for work - some are completely AJAX based, some don't use Javascript at all. Some are completely object-oriented, some are procedural. Some are very tied to MySQL, some use Microsoft SQL Server. There are definitely ways to continue to optimize OSNews, but it would require some major changes. I'm not sure I'm up for that, and it would also mean changes to the mobile site. That said, I think the smartest thing to do is to do some rewriting. I told David today that I have some requirements - yes, requirements, if *I'm* going to be coding OSN4. At the top of the list is reliance on CSS...