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Best thing about Parallels Workstation? My Gameday Audio (which I paid good money for) finally works on my Mac — well, Engadget’s Mac, to be precise. For the life of me I can’t get it to play natively on my MacBook.

The A’s won their first game today against the Twins, and lead the Division Series 1-0. With any luck, they’ll win Game 2 and will have a solid shot of defeating the Twins when my brother and I go to Game 3 on Friday, thus advancing to the ALCS. Oh, and I also bought a pair of tickets to the ALCS too. I’m still gunning for an A’s vs. Dodgers series.

For those of you keeping score at home, I’ve been on an informal quest for the last few years to figure out how many Americans have passports. Last I blogged about it, I discovered a Slate article, which said there were 44 million passports in existence. Howver, before that, I saw in a Computerworld article from 2005 that said that there are 57 milion passports in circulation. Today, I read in The New York Times that “The State Department estimates…

My old ocf.berkeley.edu email account has gotten spammed to high heaven, so I’ve decided to no longer check it. So if for some reason you’re still emailing me there, I will no longer respond. My current email continues to be cfarivar [at] cfarivar {d0t} org.

I have two great seats for tonight’s game in the right-center bleachers, Section 144, seats 20-21. $60 for the pair, or best offer. I’m in North Oakland, very near freeway and Rockridge BART for the next four hours, or can meet you at stadium before gametime. $5 discount if you’re wearing a Dodgers hat, and another $5 discount for blog readers. Email me.

Xeni at Boing Boing brightened my day with a link to TacoTrucks.net a site devoted to Oakland taco trucks, one of my favorite places to get a cheap and amazingly delicious meal. I’ve known about Burritoeater.com and Burritophile.com, which are dissapointing because the former is exclusively focused on San Francisco, and the latter’s reviews are too spotty. I was just at El Ojo de Agua #3 (pictured above) last night, and seriously, I don’t think you can get a better…

This just came over the J-School ’05 email listserv: good ol’ j-school’s gonna raise $100 million: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/publications/journalism/ here’s what the yale school of music did with $100 million: http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/05-11-02-02.all.html just saying, richard

I’m going to the playoffs! The last (and only time) I went to a playoff game was in fall 2003 with my buddy Garett Ng. Today, the 2006 American League Division Series tickets just went on sale, and I snagged a pair of bleachers tickets for Game 1 or 3, and Game 5. Huzzah!

In what may be the geekiest literary matchup I’ve ever seen, I just found out that Tim O’Reilly wrote a biography of Frank Herbert in 1981. The bad news is it’s out of print, but the good news is that Tim’s put it up on his website, in its entirety.

The New York Review of Books; October 5, 2006: Cheney leaves no paper trail. He has not always felt the necessity to discuss what he plans to say in public with the usual offices, including that of the President. Nor, we learned from Ron Suskind, has he always felt the necessity, say if the Saudis send information to the President in preparation for a meeting, to bother sending that information on to Bush. Only on the evening of September 11,…