James VanDyke

Month: August 2007

  • Pony Up

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    SMU’s new advertising campaign includes two TV commercials promoting the upcoming football season. Here is one of the commercials.

  • Announcing the 2007 Polar Bears

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    The Polar Bears are proud to announce their 2007 roster. Here’s a run down of the team and the price I paid for them. Larry Johnson – RB – $78 Randy Moss – WR – $41 Cedric Benson – RB – $31 Marshwn Lynch – RB – $22 Marc Bulger – QB – $17 Todd…

  • Texas Rangers break records in meaningless game

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    With 37 games left in the regular season and trailing the division leaders by only 19 the Rangers decided to play baseball Wednesday. Someone must have told them this was a homerun derby exhibition because when the dust settled the score was Texas 30, Baltimore 3. Yes 30 runs. The record books say no team…

  • Tracking RSS feeds and subscribers

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    Blogs present an interesting challenge in terms of tracking. In addition to pages, which are fairly easy to track using either software or services like Google Analytics. Blogs have RSS feeds which aren’t quite as easy to track. The solution, at least for me, is Feedburner. Feedburner works by creating a new RSS feed hosted…

  • On the Acution Block

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    This year our fantasy football league has decided to hold an auction draft. In researching my draft strategy I’ve come across some links I thought I would pass along. Just don’t click on them if you’re in my league! How to start an Auction League The FantasyGuru Auction-Draft Plan 2007 Fantasy Football Auction Values Auction…

  • Looping Background Music

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    The Problem:I needed a PowerPoint presentation to loop and play looping background music as well. The Solution: Select the slide you wish to insert the Background Music Loop. Select “Slide Transition” from the Slide Show menu option. A Slide Transition pop-up window should appear. Select the “Sound” pull down form in the lower right hand…

  • I’ll take a burger, fries… and Simponize me please

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    A friend sent me a neat site named Simpsonizeme.com. The site is a collaboration between BurgerKing and the Simpsons Movie. You upload a picture of yourself to be transformed into a “Simpsonized” version. The site also pokes fun at itself as a blatant marketing ploy which is very fitting for a promotion based off of…

  • Charles goes Skydiving

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    My brother went sky diving here’s the video.

  • First recording

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    I recorded my first video for the blog. We’ll see if I ever do any more. Enjoy. Powered by ScribeFire.

  • Artifical Intellegence, Fantasy Football Style

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    Lacking the knowledge, and desire, to be a professional football analyst yet still wanting to engage in justified trash talking, I need a competitive edge for the fantasy football. This year my edge is in the form of League Master 2007, a fantasy football drafting tool. Everyone knows that a strong draft day is the…