Feel "American"

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• Jhumpa Lahiri's Struggle to Feel American on NPR's Morning Eidtion
  

You Gotta Work and Work Hard

Even to have fun and enjoy life ;o)

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Obama Elected President

of the United States of America.

• Obama - 62,945,914 votes
• McCain - 55,753,790 votes

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Walter Cronkite turns 92

Happy Birthday!!!

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Waiting . . . . .

Unless we're actively doing something, we're always waiting for something. And even when we are working on a particular issue, and we're only working on 1 issue at a time (unless you're a super multi-tasker), we're waiting for multiple things from multiple sources so that we can get back and work on those issues.

So, the way I look at it - we're in perpetual "wait" mode ;o)

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Starting the Day Bad

Has it's advantages. You can look forward things ONLY possibly getting better.

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McCain Picks Running Mate

John McCain picks Sarah Palin, Gov of Alaska, as his running mate.

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links:

• ABC News
• CBS News
• CNN
• MSNBC

John McCain Turns 72

Today. He is also expected to announce his Running Mate later today.

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Obama Accepts Nomination

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I have a Dream . . . .

45 years ago today Dr King spoke these words.

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Beijing 2008 - Medal Standing

It doesn't seem right that a Nation wins 3 Gold, 2 Silver and a Bronze and another winning 3 Bronze, 2 Silver and a Gold are ranked the same (both winning 6 medals).

Instead, if we weight a Gold Medal to be 3 unit, a Silver Medal 2 Unit and a Bronze 1, then the standing becomes a bit more interesting.

Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Scaled
USA	26	27	28	81	160
China	45	14	20	79	183
Russia	13	14	18	45	90
Great Britain	16	10	11	37	79
Australia	11	12	13	36	70
France	4	12	14	28	50
Germany	9	7	7	23	48
South Korea	8	9	6	23	48
Japan	8	5	7	20	41
Italy	6	6	6	18	36

The scaling also signifies the relative diff between the teams even when the ordering is not changed.

Here's a link to the current / updated medal standing.

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iPhone 3G Available










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Nadal Defeats Federer to Win first Wimbledon Title

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links:

BBC Sports

Yahoo! Sports

George Carlin

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjjqggJOKds
  


• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PiZSFIVFiU>

Sydney Pollack 1935 - 2008

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Toshiba Gives Up

Well, it's finally happened - Toshiba has officially given up on the HD DVD format. Though it may seem like a mere formality to some, the official announcement now means people who were waiting to the next new DVD Player for their HD TV can now safely invest in a Blu-Ray format DVD Player.

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Link:

• Toshiba Abandons HD DVD - InfoWorld via Yahoo! News


• Toshiba quits HD DVD business - CNN.com

Castro Steps Down

After being in power for almost half a century.

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Superbowl XLII

What a game!!!!

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Heath Ledger Found Dead

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Wikipedia

Bobby Fisher Passed Away

Just heard the news on the radio earlier today on my way to work.

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• Wikipedia