I Want My RSS

If you’ve been with me a while you’ll note that I wrote an Email to RSS gateway some time ago. It was pretty much a simple little tool in PHP that I set up on a cron job to poll a POP3 server at a regular interval and grab emails sent to a specific account. …

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Some Sites of Note

Some of you who have been coming here a while might have noted a certain commenter going by the name initials MEP. Well, MEP has his own poker blog now. Knowing MEP, I’m guessing some interesting things will get said over there so it’s worth checking out. I also ran across this dude who is …

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Diver Down Follow Up

I recently posted about scuba diver, Dan Carlock, who was left stranded in the water after a recent dive. Someone forwarded to me a press release sent out by the company who was responsible for leaving him: Venice, CA – April 30, 2004 – There has been extensive media coverage about the rescue of Dan …

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My First B&M Casino Loss

Finally made it out for some live casino action at the Commerce Casino Friday night. Zengy IM’d me Friday afternoon and we agreed to meet up at Commerce around 9pm. Zengy beat me there and already had a table playing $4/$8 so I found myself a $2/$4 game and was pleased to see that it …

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WTO Whacks The US On Online Gambling

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Following up on a previous post, it looks like Antigua and Barbuda have successfully challenged a U.S. ban on Internet gambling at the WTO. Not like I was expecting an in-depth piece but the story seemed a little confusing and not very positive. For instance, the story states: The United States argued the gambling restrictions …

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