Thu Jan 8th 2008 John Smoltz has reached preliminary agreement on a contract with the Boston Red Sox, who also agreed Thursday to a one-year contract with outfielder Rocco Baldelli. A person familiar with the negotiations, speaking on condition of anonymity because the final paperwork had not been c...

Earlier this week we reviewed the performance of members' top picks for the fourth quarter. The best performer was Emergent BioSolutions (EBS) with a +99.47% return which was recommended by two members - Abramov Andrei & Bob Witte. As I've done in the past, I asked each member to answer a few questi...

[This is part of the Android Diary.] In particular, drawing and interacting on them. Herewith a very specialized set of notes that might be of interest to anyone programming to Android’s very attractive map API. I’ve learned a lot already, but I’ll try to keep this up-to-date as I become more ...

You are cordially invited to attend “The Anarchists Ball,” an informal formal and help set the night on fire. Friday, February 20 at 7:00pm to Midnight, Machine Age Studios 3575 Bigelow Blvd. (see directions below). This annual all age’s dance is open to all friends of Pittsburgh Organizing Gr...

According to the AishDas calendar, the current cycle for daily learning of the Aruch Hashulchan will end on 11 Sivan 5769 (June 3, 2009): It is not scheduled to begin again until November of that year: I have no idea what the reason for the gap from June to November is, but perhaps it is for the bes...

[Continuing a series that started last year with a classic Rampage announcement and Atari interview, 'The RePlay Files' is back, reprinting archival highlights of (pictured) seminal arcade/amusement trade journal RePlay Magazine, with the kind permission of the magazine's creators - check out their ...

In recent days some of my companies have done some pretty cool stuff. Given the general malaise I wanted to share a few rays of sunshine: Buddy Media : Buddy Media has been on a tear, both in terms of performance (read: closing deals) and contributing to the social media ecosystem. First, Mike Lazer...

Hitch makes an excellent point in his excellent Gaza column: Life in Islamic Gaza was not such as to induce ecstatic happiness and prosperity among the populace: In common with many fundamentalist movements, the Muslim Brotherhood in its local Palestinian incarnation had badly overplayed its hand. I...

Don Surber takes a look at the team Barack Obama has put together for his cabinet: Let us review that cabinet that President Obama built. In order of importance, with my grade on the choice. Vice president — Sen. Joe Biden. Bob Uecker, except he does not realize it. Wanted to divide Iraq into 3 pa...

So, one of my last posts a month or so ago was... "I'm going to start blogging again". Well, it turns out I lied. After my time at Strands (formerly MyStrands), I thought I was going to take a few weeks off and catch my breath. But as supreme luck (and perhaps good karma) would have it, my dream gig...