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For the last few years, I have been a New Jersey Devils hockey fan. Some people think I’m a fan because they’ve been winning championships lately but it’s because I couldn’t understand the rules until recently. One of the programs I have running on my computer is ESPN’s BottomLine which is a ticker for sports scores and news. Imagine my surprise when one of the headlines that popped up said “Devils ‘hellbent’ against proposal to change name”. I immediately clicked on the headline to find out what it was about. Basically, according to this story, State Assemblyman Craig Stanley doesn’t particularly like the nickname “Devils” because he thinks the team was named for the Christian symbol for the Antichrist, so he’s introducing a resolution into the Assembly next month to change the name. The reason why he seems to care about the name is that he is a Baptist deacon and his legislative district includes parts of Newark, where the Devils are scheduled to move into a $310 million, 18,000-seat downtown arena in September 2007. Every Devils fan knows the team was named for the ‘New Jersey Devil’.

The Jersey Devil has batlike wings, a forked tail and oversized claws; and is said to terrorize the Pine Barrens. The most popular story says that Mrs. Leeds, a poor woman with twelve children, found out she was pregnant with another child and cursed it; supposedly exclaiming “I don’t want any more children! Let it be a devil.” There are variations of the story that say the baby was born perfectly healthy and then transformed into the Devil before flying up the chimney; or that the baby was born already disfigured.

According to the ESPN article, acting Governor Richard Codey agrees that the name should stay as is. Something tells me that assemblyman won’t be too popular with Devils fans in Newark after this.

Lavasoft has released version 1.06 of their Ad-Aware adware/spyware removal program. I’ve been using Ad-Aware for a while now along with Spybot S & D. I like Microsoft’s AntiSpyware a bit more than those because it’ll run every day automatically. Ad-Aware won’t scan automatically unless you pay for it and Spybot S & D doesn’t do it yet.

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I was surfing through IMDB.com and came across Crow:Wicked Prayer which is to be the fourth installment in the Crow movie franchise. The first one was excellent, the second one sucked, and the third one was pretty good (compared to the second but still nowhere near the first). I, being a big Crow fan, will probably buy Crow:Wicked Prayer when it comes out on July 19th. It has Eddie Furlong (young John Connor from Terminator 2 - Judgment Day), David Boreanaz (Angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the TV show), and Tara Reid (American Pie). It’ll be a little weird seeing David Boreanaz playing a bad guy. I just hope it’s not worse than The Crow - City of Angels

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According to a couple of the news feeds I read every day, the next version of iTunes will have the ability to download podcasts and put them on the iPod without needing a third party app like iPodder. I am interested in trying it out but I’m not about to jump ship from using iPodder.

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Netscape Browser 8.0 was released today, nearly two and a half months since the beta was released. It’s based on the code for Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3. It updates itself every day with a list of potentially harmful sites and warns you if you visit one of those sites. When I tried the beta version, I came across a few bugs which I’m hoping have been fixed in the final version. I’m going to try the final Netscape longer than I did the beta before I decide whether or not I like it as much or better than Firefox.

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I came across this article on CNN.com about Donald Trump wanting to build taller replicas of the original Twin Towers. Given a choice between the Freedom Tower that is scheduled to be built at Ground Zero, and Trump’s bigger, better World Trade Center, I’d have to pick Trump’s towers. I like that the Freedom Tower will be 1,776 ft. tall, making it the tallest building in the world (a title the original Twin Towers held for a while), but I believe what better way to rub it in the face of the terrorists that are responsible for 9/11 than to build bigger, better versions of the originals. Trump’s version would only be 1,474 ft. tall though. Now, if they were 1,776 ft. like the Freedom Tower is supposed to be, it would be perfect.

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I love the idea behind BitTorrent and came across software that adds bittorrent to anybody’s website. Blog Torrent makes it easy to blog either large files or files that may receive lots of traffic, like podcasts. I will be implementing this into my site as soon as I find some files to share.

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The Mozilla Organization has released the latest update to my favorite browser, Firefox. The latest version fixes a few security holes and is still a lot safer than Internet Explorer.

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I have updated the WordPress plugin I’ve been using to control the comment spam on my blog. I had over 300 spam comments caught by the original Spam Karma. The counter has been reset to 0 for the new Spam Karma 2. Let’s see how well it does its job.

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I want to sign up for one of the PVR services but I haven’t been able to decide if I want to sign up with TiVO or ReplayTV. With TiVO, I can get a wireless USB adapter for it and use my cable internet connection to download the updates. ReplayTV doesn’t have anything mentioning how to do this with their device on their site. ReplayTV though has the ability to send recorded programs from one customer to another. As far as I know, TiVO doesn’t have anything similar to this.

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