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And Mark Cuban is the answer? So they say:

Colorful Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban grew up a Pirates fan; so he has served notice: If owner Kevin McClatchy ever puts the team up for sale, he wants to bid on it.And Pirates fans are pulling for him. This ball club hasn't posted a winning record since 1992. Despite building a beautiful new ballpark to generate more revenue, the franchise remains "small market" when it comes to spending.

The other professional sports teams in need of a makeover: the Devil Rays, Arizona Cardinals, St. Louis Blues, 49ers, Hawks, Hornets, Florida Panthers, and Clippers. They left of the Steelers, who desperately need a new head coach.

Recently released ecto 2.4 has a bug re: linebreaks.

I submit an article that looks like this and it comes back as being formatted like this.

In MovableType, the original linebreaks are preserved. However, re-publishing the "broken" entry changes removes the duplicate line breaks (you know, the ones that insert paragraph breaks). This is 100% reproducible across at least two different blogs (here and The Sand Trap).

The text returned in the console is properly "linebroken."

When a user encounters a 404 on this site (and a few others I run), I run MovableType's search and show the results to the user (or forward them to the appropriate entry if there's only one match). I also send an email to myself, and lately they've been illustrated that a good many users have problems with the "feed://" (pseudo-)protocol.

Queried URL: http://thesandtrap.com/feed://thesandtrap.com/podcast.xml
Queried URL: http://nslog.com/feed://nslog.com/index.rss

For now, I've taken care of it as such:

RedirectMatch /feed://thesandtrap.com/(.*) http://thesandtrap.com/$1
RedirectMatch /feed://nslog.com/(.*) http://nslog.com/$1

In other words, a lot of people are trying to subscribe to (or at least click on) my feeds but using a browser that both doesn't understand "feed://" and won't simply replace it with "http://" when it fails to understand it.

We'll see about this:

Smith, Starks, and Farrior all should be back for Monday night's donnybrook. And finally a healthy backfield of Willie, Jerome, Duce, and Verron will be backing up Big Ben. Look for the Steelers to shockingly dominate and pistol-whip Peyton in a 34-20 laugher.

I think Peyton is over-rated, but I think the Pittsburgh D is overrated, too. I think that Indianapolis' defense is drastically overrated (look at their schedule) and that if the Steelers can establish a ball-control (read: run, run, run) offense, they'll do just fine. Not 34-20 fine, but something within 10 points and in the "W" column.

I also still think that Bill Cowher is one of the biggest morons in professional sports right now.

Question: Do you miss Mac OS 9's "interface sounds"? Have you done anything to get them back?

My Answer: Mac OS 9's sound effects when choosing menus, dragging windows, etc. may be one of my most missed features, in fact. I ran Xounds for awhile, but removed it when my software company began making bug testing on a clean system a priority. I've not installed them again because, despite Unsanity's assurances that their product is crash-free, I don't quite believe that my system is as stable with APE running than without.

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.

Question: Do you miss Mac OS 9's "windowshade" functionality? Have you done anything to get it back?

My Answer: I miss it somewhat. I think that with Exposé (which I rarely use simply because I've never forced myself to get into the habit of using it), cmd-tab, and cmd-tilde, windowshading is something that was a lot more necessary on Mac OS 9. Occasionally it'd be nice to see what's under the window I'm looking at without switching apps, minimizing, or even switching windows, but I find those times to be exceedingly rare.
The next few questions will ask about some "abandoned" Mac OS 7/8/9 "technologies" in Mac OS X.

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.

Someone pointed me to a thread on IGN's forums about how the XBox 360 will be a failure because… of who knows. I forget - the points they made were just weak.

I posted a quick response that will probably be met with flames. Essentially, as a Mac user, I feel I have a unique (4.5% or so unique, anyway) perspective on enjoying products that don't come from Microsoft.

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You too can take better pictures with these 10 tips.

Not so:

While no "green" person would ever advocate buying a hybrid for purely economic reasons, it is painfully obvious that existing hybrids lack the ability to make up for their steep prices with gas savings.

Read more here.

The only one of the ten I found useful was the one to turn off PDF viewing:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES

FWIW, I already use SAFT and consider it a lifesaver for one purpose: saving tabs when Safari crashes.

Question: Did you honestly think that I would go one day without a QotD?

My Answer: I didn't, but then again, I'm me.

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.

Question: Do you own an iSight or a Webcam? How often do you use it?

My Answer: Yes, and next to never. I bought an iSight for my parents as well but they never wanted to use it…

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.

Anyone else having problems today?

I can't buy a movie I put in my shopping cart yesterday.

This is a handy guide to which browsers apply which CSS rules.

I think a previous version of MovableType liked creating double underscores "__" in URLs, typically when titles were of the "word + another" variety (two spaces separated by something that was stripped during "dirification"). I've gone through and re-created all the posts that had "__" in them to remove those double underscores.

These double underscores were most likely caused when I upgraded to MovableType 3.2 and had to set all of the basenames to be the same as the dirified words were previously. I think I've caught most of my own TrackBacks and links. I became aware of some problems after my 404 script was showing a good amount of traffic on URLs with "__" in them.

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