While his presence may be gone, Caray’s voice will continue forever live with the history of the Braves. His most memorable call arguably came when he exclaimed, “Yes! Yes! Yes!” after Braves center fielder Marquis Grissom caught the final out of the 1995 World Series.

The son of a Hall of Fame broadcaster, Skip devoted much of his life to the broadcasting world. He began his broadcasting career at KMOX Radio in St. Louis as host of a 15-minute high school sports show and later had an opportunity to broadcast University of Missouri football games with his father.

The long-time voice of the Atlanta Braves will be missed.

This post is great example of the insight and perspective he has on some high profile tech companies, especially Apple.

He’s just as funny as Real Dan as he was Fake Steve, but he has more room to dig into details and explore what’s on his mind.

This time it’s just randomly timing out on numerous sites across the board. I can traceroute everywhere, but as soon as I try to hit “http://www.google.com”, for example, it sporadically times out.

Anyone else seeing problems like this?

I sure hope this doesn’t have anything to do with them introducing new metered bandwidth plans. You think gas prices are bad? Just wait!

Methinks time’s about up for Time Warner & Road Runner.

7/23 Update: JT.Net reader Ben emails:

For over a week I have started to notice that roadrunner “not found” ads are being provided by oversee.net

I have also notices that domain parked sites and sites of major domain parking companies such as namemedia, tafficz etc are being hijacked and being sent to oversee.net

Can you please check with other who have roadrunner and find out what is going on.

Thanks
Ben

Yes, Ben, I’ve read the same thing recently. Apparently oversee.net is taking over the DNS spamming market.

Me and Sam the Eagle

see famous look-a-like faces

After installing just about every free app that was available, I’ve since whittled the list down to a handful that I’m finding my groove with.

The big one for me right now is Twittelator, a nice little Twitter client that has me actually using Twitter for reals.

I’m also digging the Pandora app, but I hate that I can’t switch to other apps and have the music keep playing. That and there’s significant lag skipping songs over Edge.

Anyway, I’m putting a hurtin’ on my battery playing around with all of these apps, mostly over Wifi. I’m also finding a lot of the location based ones don’t fare very well over Edge…. still not enough to push me to 3G just yet though.

I installed the Pandora app this afternoon. I had “Go with the flow” from QOTSA streaming in my car on the way home. So awesome.

If you already have an iPhone, the App Store is where it’s at. Especially since it looks like the upgrade will really cost you somewhere in the neighborhood of $559.

That’s the $199 price tag for the new phone, plus an extra $240 over 24 months for the new data plan, plus another $120 over 24 months for the text messaging AT&T took out of the iPhone v1 data plan.

10 bucks more a month for the new 3G data plan wasn’t such a big deal, but the fact AT&T is sticking it to you with the text messaging plan is a bit much.

Either way, the App Store is the game changer.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), born after the Watergate scandal, establishes how the government can secretly eavesdrop on Americans in their own country in intelligence investigations.

The US Senate today passed the FISA bill.

Thanks, Barry!