Not So Entertaining These Days
- June
- 1
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As our daughter rose in the musical ranks, my husband and I attended every performance that we could. We rearranged work schedules to hear her play for two minutes. She would roll her eyes in humiliation as her parents sat beaming in the front row, trying desperately not to shout, “Encore, Encore” after her rousing [...]
Jumping next for Shamrock Star
- April
- 6
The Awapuni galloper was an open class winner on the flat at Trentham on Saturday, beating Waverley Cup winner Marty Boy in the $25,000 Hutt City Cup (1600m).
That was Shamrock Stars second win from his last three starts but will not postpone plans to try the seven-year-old over fences.
He jumps okay but I dont think [...]
Please not a onetest wonder
- April
- 6
Redmond senior will doubtless have passed on similar sentiments to his son when they caught up in Perth this weekend, with Redmond junior having just returned there. He had been on his way to play league cricket for Wigan in England but is now revising those plans.
I arrived in Perth late on Friday night and [...]
If Not Flash on iPhone, Then What?
- March
- 14
1 Billion by 2010
Adobe, for its part, responded only with a general defense of its market status.
“Flash and Flash Lite are a huge success,” Stefan C. Offermann, a spokesperson for Adobe, told MacNewsWorld.
There are more than 450 million Flash-enabled mobile devices shipped worldwide and 150 percent growth year-over-year, Offermann said. The company expects to [...]
Packers quarterback Brett Favre retires
- March
- 6
But Favre shocked the NFL on Tuesday when he decided to quit now.
The Packers looked like a sure-fire Super Bowl contender in 2008 after having lost in the NFC championship game to the eventual NFL champion Giants in January. Favre was coming off one of the best seasons in his career, and he [...]
Hillary Clinton Takes Break for SNL
- March
- 2
Then the real Clinton appeared onscreen with an “editorial response.”
The sketch, she said, “wasn’t an endorsement of one candidate over another. I can say this confidently because when I asked if I could take it as an endorsement, I was told, ‘Absolutely not.’ But I still enjoyed that sketch a great deal because I simply [...]
Who’s Winning the RIA Horse Race?
- February
- 29
The Race Is On
Everyone from The New York Times to niche bloggers are buzzing with trying to handicap the horse race that’s now developing among the top contenders, including Adobe’s latest entry, and offerings from such other RIA powerhouses as Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Silverlight and Mozilla’s Prism.
Adobe is already planning to make [...]
SPACE10 Teams Sure They Have the Right Stuff for Google’s $30M Moon Shot
- February
- 23
“I’m very pleased to welcome our first 10 fully registered teams to the Google Lunar X Prize. Only 6 months after the announcement of this competition, the response has been incredible — we’ve received over 560 expressions of interest from more than 53 nations. By comparison, at the 6 month point of the Ansari X [...]
Disney composer has 3 chances to win
- February
- 23
“I was really blindsided, completely blindsided,” he says. “Three nominations. I said, ‘Now we’re gonna lose.’ ” Menken said he expects the three Enchanted entries — “Happy Working Song,” “So Close” and “That’s How You Know,” all co-written with Stephen Schwartz — may split the vote, improving odds for the [...]
Mitt quits #151; Romney concedes race takes jabs at Demos
- February
- 8
WASHINGTON %26#151; Mitt Romney dropped out of the presidential race Thursday in front of a sympathetic crowd of conservatives, putting an end to his bid to become the first Mormon to win the White House.
“This isn’t an easy decision. I hate to lose,” Romney told [...]
