In what will most likely be my final semi-major purchase before home buying season opens, I picked up a new monitor on eBay last week. Err... that is I ordered it last week, and it finally got here today - more on that in a bit. It's a Sony 17" Widescreen - all kinds of real estate. Maximum resolution is 1280x768. I've still got to fidget with the color balance a little, but my initial impressions are good. It's got a number of inputs available in the back - I'm using a standard VGA for the PC, but I could also opt for S-video or HiDef component video. Getting it running in XP was no problem - it really is plug and play! - but I've got some work to do to get it running under Linux. I'm able to switch from widescreen to standard, but I'm not sure how to set the resolution to what I need it to be. Now, on to the story...
ESPN posted a feature last night that ranks the top 10 athletic feats. You can read the whole list for yourself, but #1 was Bob Beamon shattering the world record in the long jump at the '68 Olympics. I won't disagree with that, but a few of the others that made the list are "iffy". Mike Vick breaking a long run to win a game in overtime? Sure, it was a great play, probably the best that year. But in the top 10 of all-time? No way. The biggest oversight I saw was Michael Johnson. At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, not only did he become the first person to win both the 200m and 400m, he completely destroyed the ...