There is a group of skaters, most of whom are in their 70's and 80's, that long blade ice skate (speed skate) together every week and the StarTribune has an article in the Sunday paper about them, including an audio slideshow. These people are active, despite their age! What's my excuse? Um...

Sweet! The news is out that George Clooney is part of a team that is making Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age into a SCI FI Channel miniseries! I hope they do a better job than the "Dune" miniseries (which I still liked, but the FX were pretty cheesy-bad in spots). I'm still waiting for a kick-ass version of "Snow Crash" to be made, but like William Gibson stories, I'm not sure they will be translated well to the big screen.

Roxio announced Toast 8 today for all your disc-burning needs and it looks good: it has file recovery from damaged disks, photo archive discs, custom DVD menus, built-in disc cataloging, data-spanning across discs, 50-gigabyte Blu-Ray support (meaning we get Blu-Ray in all the new Macs?!), and more (including TivoToGo)! It requires 10.4.8 and at least a G4 processor and is currently $80 ($38 at Buy.com after two rebates!)