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More indepth look at the decision on getting the right over-the-air set-top-box. Here are relevant links: * Home Theater SPOT!. This is the debate about the Promise module for the Mitsubishi. It has an OTA tuner built-in, but costs $1K. Main advantage is the Firewire-5C for connecting with all digital…

Can’t quite believe that we are on eve of this war. Still glued to news.google.com. Lots of new on the internet of course. Most interesting things: * “Clare Short on Channel 4”:http://www.channel4.com/news/2003/03/week_3/18_goodman.html. Amazing turnabout. * “Tony Blair at House of Commons”:http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,916790,00.html. Wow, is it me, or do the British politicians…

American vs. European Compairson If you ignore the tone of the piece and just look at the statistics, they sure are interesting. Birthrate differences, productivity, spending difference between the USA and the EU are pretty striking. Here’s a Harpers Index view of the article where he makes four points:

Chicken ? la Iraq. Thomas Friedman is so brilliant and depressing at the same time. I’ve become a total news junkie. Will be interesting to see what happens. This reminds me of the joke about the man who gets lost and asks a cop for directions, and the first thing…