New domain, news, updates, etc...

I'm thinking of getting my own domain to host a website that I don't know what to do with yet. Ho hum.

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On the tech news front, Google bought YouTube for 1.65B (that's Billion with a B). Honestly, it appears like a bad deal knowing that YouTube might be liable for hundreds of millions of dollars of copyright infringement violations. But if there is a company that can pull this off and make it work, it's Google.

Analyzing the numbers further, just mere rumors about the buyout increased Google's stock price by 5%. So in theory, the all-stock purchase of YouTube was actually FREE. GOOG Market Cap: 130 Billion, 5% stock rise just on rumors, do the math.

Sigh, feels like 1999 again.

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I've been reading some science news briefs and came across this interesting development. Watch out band-aid makers!

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Slingmedia just came out with new models to their Slingbox device. That explained the $70 price drop of the original Slingbox the past few weeks. In a related but depressing news, the BETA version of Slingplayer for OS X is not planned for release until the end of Q3 06. Sigh.