MS antitrust ruling
- wrist-slap, upholds initial settlement
- plenty of loopholes
- 'security' clause
- can still retaliate if OEM offers a system w/o MS OS

ICANN drops directly elected board seat

Death toll in Italy earthquake now 28

No clues in Jam Master Jay's shooting yet

Yahoo News: Study says coffee makes women smarter (link)

Vick fined $5,000 for wearing red socks

Kilmer doing ads for Northrup Grumman

My friends have turned on me - Bryan served me a subpeona to testify about a purse snatching we witnessed.

I played in a pickup ultimate tournament today... and our team won! Really, the important thing was to be on the same team as Tyler, and the rest took care of itself. My legs were no longer working in the final game, and Jason's tirelessness nearly destroyed my calves. Props to Jeff, Anne, Craig, Frank, and Alan who were able to keep playing those final points.

Also, on another note, the prize was a whammo, which is rather cool considering that this is probably the first ultimate disc I've ever owned.

Redskins beat Seattle
- defense mighty, offense sluggish

49ers beat Raiders in overtime
- Cortez missed field goal in final seconds of 4th quarter
- Cortez hits game winner in overtime

194 car pileup south of Los Angeles
- fog blamed

MNF at Alyssa's
- Pack slaughters Miami 24-01
- Green Bay improves to 7-1, best in NFL
- Constants turnovers by Miami
- Pack offense not very impressive, but good enough

Hunter teaching Caps how to draw
- faceoff percentage down to 30-35% in some games

The best thing to come out of the whole Terrell Owens sharpie-in-a-sock controversy: the Sharpie commercial. The commercial starts in a football locker room with the head coach speaking to his teammates:

"Tonight, we will leave our mark on the game of football... We will NOT, however, leave our mark ON the football"

The coach then collects all the sharpie markers from his players. Brilliant.

Lott: "It'll feel good to be on offense"
- possible recount in South Dakota (Johnson (D) declared winner)

Gephardt steps down as House Minority Leader

Last mission of Galileo space probe completed
- expected to last only 2 years
- mission lasted 5 years
- will crash into Jupiter

Ballot measure to require organic, fair-trade coffee defeated in Berkeley

BMG to copy-protect all CDs

#1 innovation of the year

Virginia will prosecute snipers
- Malvo will be tried in Fairfax
- Muhammed will be tried in Prince William
- Fed charges dismissed

Bali suspect confesses to bombing

New Brunswick father sues amateur hockey association for $300K after son doesn't get MVP award

UN Security Council adopts Iraq resolution
- unanimous vote

Nancy Pelosi rises to Minority leader for Dems

Myers says Al Qaeda has adapted to US military tactics in Afghanistan
- Chairman Joint Chiefs
- calls for shift in priorities from hunting to reconstruction

November 10, 2002

Jaguars blast 'Skins 26-7
- no offense for 'Skins
- poor field position all day due to great punting/poor returning
- terrible punts by Barker pinned Redskin defense

Malvo confesses to shootings, including middle school student

Oakland crushes Denver in MNF at Ray's

Bonds unanimous NL MVP

Capellas leaves HP
- probably headed to WorldCom
- no role as #2

Iraq accepts UN resolution
- Husseins accepts after parliament rejected day before

Bin Laden reemerges as voice on tape

Toshiba licenses TiVo

Microsoft cancels Longhorn, focusing on Blackcomb (2005-6)

USC crushes UCLA 52-21
- Palmer #2 on Pac-10 All-Time passing leaders

Redskins hold out against Rams 20-17
- fumble recovery with 0:11 to go in the red zone (Arrington/Gardener)
- great plays by Smoot
- Controversial call: refs whistled ball dead on Rams fumble in red zone, Rams scored TD

Redskins lose to Cowboys, again, 27-20
- 10 straight losses to the Cowboys
- blow 20-10 lead with Watson dropping pass on 5 yd line, picked up for INT, TD

Hung out in Georgetown for the first time in a really long time. Never got to spend much time there when I was younger. Tried to get into Filomena's (someone had mentioned this to me as being really good, I think my sister), but there wasn't a chance. Ended up having a nice dinner at Morton's.

I got to see Jordan play for the first (and probably last) time in my life. The Wizards made it an exciting game (95-94 Philly win).

Stackhouse's three-pointer got the Wizards to within one point with less than a minute left (Stackhouse outscored Iverson with 38 points). The game ended with the setup that everyone came to see: inbound pass to Jordan with only several seconds left. Jordan tried to pas instead of shoot on the inbound pass and ended up blowing the final shot. Jordan admitted that he took an "extra dribble." Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun.

Man, what a great season: USC kills Notre Dame 44-13. This was the first time since 1983 USC has beat both USC and Notre Dame. USC walks away with the shillelagh (or however its spelled).