Brad on Twitter- bradthomas: getting ready for ben's soccer practice.October 3, 2008 bradthomas
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- bradthomas: unexpected thunderstorm, thank goodness its nearly wednesdaySeptember 30, 2008 bradthomas
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- bradthomas: Panthers signed LB Donte Curry today. Curry was cut about a week ago, but will replace Dan Connor, who is on the IR with an ACL injury.September 23, 2008 bradthomas
Feb
28
New MySpace, Skype virus threats spotted
User pages at the popular social networking site MySpace are being modified by versions of the Zlob Trojan, which is installing code that overlays its own window on top of the page, F-Secure Corp.’s chief researcher Mikko Hypponen wrote in the company’s security blog.
Zlob tries to download and run malicious software, or malware, from the internet, and looks to change Internet Explorer web browser settings, default search and home pages.
Be careful, myspace users, there is another trojan on the loose.
Feb
28
Free, Online version of Photoshop within 6 months?
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Adobe to take Photoshop online | CNET News.com
Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the companys chief executive said Tuesday.
Rumor has it that it will be a vastly scaled-down version of the imaging powerhouse application and will be free users with an ad-based revenue model. The online version would help curb piracy of the full desktop version of the product since most people just want to use it for the basics. “We recognize there is a customer there–we recognize they are not going to pay us, necessarily, directly,” said Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen in the cited Cnet.com article. Chizen noted that the ad revenue would allow them to get something where they currently get nothing.
Feb
26
Jesus’ Tomb?
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http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/16789186.htm
Biblical experts and archaeologists who are familiar with the central evidence instantly discounted the claim, which Discovery Channel has touted as possibly “the greatest archaeological find in history,” as an ill-informed, recycled publicity grab.
The chances that the findings in “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” are real “are more than remote,” Israel Museum curator David Mevorah said. “They are closer to fantasy.”
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=171237&Sn=WORL&IssueID=29344
WASHINGTON: The burial site of Jesus has been found and suggests he had a wife and son, according to highly sensitive claims in a documentary by Titanic director James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici. The claims inject controversy into the issue of resurrection central to Christianity and, if accurate, could reignite questions about Jesus’ earthy family life popularised in the book The Da Vinci Code.
Cameron and Jacobovici, an award-winning documentary director, said their research suggested Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had a son, Judah.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=nation_world&id=5070886
If you listen to the researchers, they’ll tell you they may have uncovered the greatest archeological find in history. Talk to the critics, however, and it’s a different viewpoint regarding the news. They say it’s a massive publicity stunt for a soon-to-air TV documentary. Either way, the central finding of this research appears to discredit a bedrock belief of the Christian faith.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070226-jesus-tomb.html
Inscriptions on the boxes, in addition to DNA tests of tiny bits of tissue found inside, suggest that the cave was the final resting place of Jesus, his disciple Mary Magdalene, and their son, the filmmakers said.
The claims, if verified, could threaten key tenets of the Christian faith, most notably that Jesus never married or had children and that he was resurrected three days after his death.
“The evidence is compelling,” said Jane Root, president of Discovery Channel, which will air the film on Sunday. “The consequences are enormous.”
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1593893,00.html?xid=site-cnn-partner
Meet the Jesuses! Cameron told the press that when Jacobovici, who has been working on the project for years, laid it out for him in detail, he thought, “I’m not a biblical scholar, but it seemed pretty darned compelling.” He added, “I said, this is the biggest achaeology story of the century. And I still believe that to be true.”
If true, of course, it is more than that. If true, it is a contradiction, in the most earthy, concrete way, of the Bible, which claims that Jesus was taken up bodily into heaven.
But as its creators have revealed more and more of it over the last two days, key parts of it seem increasingly like debatable conjecture.
Feb
26
Update: Microsoft Office 2003 apps, Explorer hit with new crash bugs
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Update: Microsoft Office 2003 apps, Explorer hit with new crash bugs
February 26, 2007 (Computerworld) — Microsoft Corp.’s Word 2003 and Excel 2003 can be crashed by attackers who feed the business applications malformed documents, Symantec Corp. reported today.
In separate alerts sent to subscribers of its DeepSight threat system, Symantec warned that the bugs — both discovered and disclosed by a Russian researcher with the moniker “sehato” — could be exploited by attackers to bring down the Office applications.
Microsoft denied that the bugs were actually vulnerabilities.
I guess these companies thinking about upgrading might want to really look at the cost-effectiveness of doing so relatively quickly.
Feb
26
Charlotte Observer | UNCC students say they’d pay for football
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Charlotte Observer | 02/26/2007 | UNCC students say they’d pay for football
Nearly 60 percent of UNC Charlotte students polled said they’d attend five or six home football games if there were a Charlotte 49ers team.
Almost eight in 10 said they are willing to pay higher fees to get a team, according to the Student Government Association poll, though the size of the increases they’d support differ.
Feb
21
One of the things I think is interesting is the number of people that think they are the definitive expert, or that they know as much as the experts do. For example, let’s take any professional sports team; there are whole sects of fans for each team who actually believe they are smarter than the people running the team, and want you to know that. Sure, some of the time there probably is a few of them that are actually smarter than the average bear, but for the most part, fans can’t know the whole picture because they don’t sit in on practices, film study, meetings and have interaction with the players and coaches. Beat writers are our only hope, and even then you get a lot of opinion.
Draft sites are some of my favorites, because they are largely regurgitated drivel based on a few observations made on a practice or two. Unless that writer covered every second of that player’s collegiate career, I’m not buying their opinion. I find High School recruiting and scouting even more laughable because of such disparity in talent levels across the country. Sure, there are guys like Greg Oden, who looks like a 40 year old man and is actually a freshman at Ohio State, who have been SO dominant that they hype is warranted, but take Adam Morrison for example; The guy played at Gonzaga — not exactly playing the UNC’s and Duke’s every night — and was THE man for that team. He’s been OK since his arrival in the NBA, but not worthy of the third overall pick. I’m a huge Bobcats fan, but let’s be honest; There was a lot of hype surrounding Morrison that was sold and bought; moreso than possibly any other player not named Andrea Bargnani.
There are SO many sites out there with so much information. Which is right? There are probably conflicting opinions stating facts on nearly any subject you could think of. Much of it is really just passed-along information. There are a lot of information-passers in the sports information business. Sites like ESPN and CBS Sportsline have guys that watch a few highlight reels and then report things as if they are fact. They don’t dig deep enough to give you a true indication of what is going on. That is why the local writers are the best bet; at least they have better access than the average fan, and they know the team better than the national “experts”.
In my 3 years with Scout.com, I have to say that I have been given news that I didn’t know about less than 5 times total about my team. That is because the national folks don’t know what is going on with my team better than I do.
Keep that in mind before you buy some subscription to a site that has national experts. Go with a site that has local experts, instead, and you’ll get more for your money.
Feb
20
Panthers eying a DE now? - CSN Discussion
With Rucker on the shelf and Wallace no longer a Panther, it’s obvious that the Panthers will be looking for a new Defensive End to pair with Peppers.
Will it be in the draft? Will it be in free agency? Talk it up in the Forums.
Feb
19
That’s Racin’ | Harvick roars past Martin to win a Daytona 500 to remember
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That’s Racin’ | 02/18/2007 | Harvick roars past Martin to win
a Daytona 500 to remember
This was the Daytona 500.
It was wild and it was controversial. It ended in a way that people will discuss and argue about for weeks, if not years. It was nearly enough to make one grown man cry.
A wild finish to the Daytona 500 last night, with the 07 car flipped upside down, backwards and on fire as it crossed the finish line.
Feb
19
Charlotte Observer | Panthers Salaries
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Charlotte Observer | 02/18/2007 | Panthers Salaries
The Panthers will have to trim about $2.5 million to get to the $109 million salary cap before the March 2 start of free agency.
click through to see a breakdown of the Panthers’ current salaries.
Feb
19
Charlotte Observer | Off-season decisions loom for Panthers
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Charlotte Observer | 02/18/2007 | Off-season decisions loom for Panthers
Although there was a report that Morgan restructured his deal, he did not. He remains under contract through 2010, after signing an extension in 2005. His base salary remains $750,000, and he still has a $4.5 million cap figure for this season.He also is to receive a $2 million roster bonus in March and a $500,000 reporting bonus in July.
According to the Observer, Morgan did not restructure his contract.