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Man, technology is amazing. And no, I'm not talking about Sametime... although that's amazing too. I'm talking about my new toy. I recently bought myself a portable MP3 player, and it's the smartest thing I've done in a long time. I don't own a personal computer (I just use my work laptop all the time), so I never had much of a repository for all my favorite music. Now I've got 20 gigabytes of disk space that I can carry around with me. That's enough for approximately 5,000 songs, and therefore every song I've ever liked and probably ever will like. Right now I've got about 800 songs in there; that's just music I had on Bill's computer. I haven't gone through my CD collection yet.

But the technology I found more amazing is an FM transmitter. My car doesn't have a tape deck, so I couldn't use a tape adapter thing. I thought I might be stuck, until a coworker mentioned an FM transmitter. $30 later, and I can listen to my entire music collection in my car. The player and the transmitter just sit on the dashboard, and there are no cords to worry about. I just tune the radio to 88.1 and enjoy the ride. I've actually been sad when my commute comes to an end. What an age we live in.

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Upon further playing around with Sametime, we discovered a cool thing we could do with our website. If you go to our bot page, we can see that someone is looking at the page, and we can usually tell what company they're coming from. And we can instantly start a chat session with them (as a java applet, so they don't have to download anything). So my boss has been monitoring this thing, and when he sees someone come to the page, he sends them a chat message like "Hi and welcome to the Agility Partners Bot page. If you have any questions about our bots, Sametime or Agility Partners, I'd be happy to answer them. By the way I'm a real person...not a program." Not too intrusive, right?

It occured to us that this sort of approach might scare people away (and it has), but we think it's cool enough to serve us well. Wouldn't it freak you out? I compared it to going into a store and instantly having a clerk ask you if he can help you with anything... but I changed my mind. We make the visitor feel at home and just let them know that we're available for questions. And we show off the cool things Sametime can do. My boss has had some great conversations with people from big companies, who have been pretty impressed. So we got that goin' for us, which is nice.

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Ordinarily I wouldn't link to this story, but a couple things stand out at me. Fred Taylor was fined by the NFL for making a throat-slashing gesture, which has been discouraged since last year. Taylor claims the gesture was across his chest. But I don't care. One of my least favorite things about watching football is having to deal with the players' bravado and cockiness. Taylor's basically saying "no no no, I was taunting the other team this way, not that way."

Here's the quote that gets me though. Keep in mind this is an NFL player saying this: "The league is getting carried away... I can't afford to be just giving away money."

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Ostrich picture courtesy of the good blokes at B3ta.com. Every Friday they put out a newsletter with some good links in it. This week they've got some gems like this dancin' dude, and this pencil-tip artist, and what they dub "Inexplicable Platform Game".

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Um, apparently former NBA star Manute Bol is trying his hand at ice hockey. He's 7 foot 7, and he's never played before. It kinda looks like one check against the boards would shatter his skeleton, but then again he beat William "The Fridge" Perry in a boxing match.

"It was believed Bol, who weighs 225 pounds, would become the tallest player under contract in the history of professional hockey." Hmm, are you sure about that? "In other breaking news, ice hockey is played on ice!" Who can tell me how many professional basketball players have been taller than him? (Seriously, I'm interested...)

UPDATE: Apparently Gheorghe Muresan (of "My Giant" fame) was also 7-7... I found a 1997 article about an NBA-hopeful North Korean cager who is 7-8 and can dunk without jumping.

In summary, OF COURSE Manute Bol would be the tallest hockey player ever.

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If I ever felt like adding an "About Me" page to LenLowLand, I think I would consider just linking to this. I bet a lot of my readers didn't know that I had been prominently and actively associated with the work of progress and improvement in Cedar County, Ohio. Or that I died in 1892.

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Lotus Sametime. Joining the fight against terrorism.

"With so many of the world's nations united in the antiterrorism campaign dubbed Operation Enduring Freedom, coordinating military efforts is key. Recognizing the importance of collaboration, the U.S. Navy is working with Lotus Software to extend its on-ship collaborative capabilities to British, Canadian, German, and New Zealand forces."

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Does anybody know of a website or service where you can have them send you e-mail alerts if your favorite music groups are going to be coming to a theater near you?

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How 'bout those Celtics?

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