There is now 78 days left until the NFL and Love 2006 kickoff challenge. The Pros haven't been sitting on the bench during the off-season and hopefully you haven't either. With summer in full swing the NFL pros and the Love Pros have been hard at work to prepare for the coming months.

Love as with football takes teamwork and practice. There are rules and strategies for every game. Football teams use their own playbook, for Love Pros the playbook is, “Winning Points with the Woman in Your Life One Touchdown at a Time – How to Score for Men and Women.”

Here is the second set of tips to jumpstart your season program. (If you miss the first set, check out the 99 days left information piece.):

NFL Pro – You’ve already arrived at the stadium and now it’s time to don the required uniform, put your socks and cleats on and head to the medical training office before you hit the field. In order to help you play your best game and keep you from landing on the

A LiveBook on the test bench at Rain Headquarters, photographed for CDM. One of the things that attracts me to computers: choice. So its worth noting that you do have choices when looking to laptops, PCs included. (This sounds like those lame We know you have a choice in your travel plans announcements you get ...

newVideoPlayer("/motherinlaw.flv", 506, 423,""); Tonight's 60 Minutes sit-down with President-Elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle was the media equivalent of a fluffernutter sandwich, and it tasted good. Here the couple were relaxed and clearly happy to have ended the long campaign. Giggling with big smiles, the two won over the newsmagazine's senior-aged audience with feel-good family stuff and little in the way of substantial announcements. In the following clip, Barack relates his presidential way of dealing with Michelle's mom Marian Robinson. Click for the video. Thanks to Blakeley for the CBS footage. You could hear Michelle Obama's exuberance as she discussed scouting her new digs: Kroft: What was it like going through there? Michelle Obama: Well, first of all, Laura Bush was just so gracious. She is a really sweet person. And couldn't have been more excited and enthusiastic about the tour. So that was wonderful. And her entire team, their team has been working closely just to make us feel welcom

This will be great as it will be Simon Slieker, Zen Paradox and the newly reformed TR Storm all going mad across two levels blurb shamelessly nicked from the POLNATE myspace page.. thanks Kali! I'm a super sexy laid back audio stigma that happens once a month on a Friday for your booty shakin pleasure on levels 2 & 3 @ eurotrash bar, Corrs La, Melbourne. Enticing you to wobble n wiggle, move n groove, shake n bake, lounge n laugh, float n fly... All bases are covered with resident dj Simon Slieker holding fort for the electrifying electro experience with guest dj's/artists each month catering to your funky techno/electo needs :) check back here regularly for announcements.. The live n laptops chill lounge is on hold for now... stay tuned for news on that ;) And bee prepared for the CD launch of Polynated on Sept 7th!!! It's gonna go OFF!!!

Acquia, who I worked for as event planner for Drupalcon Boston this past spring and then as an event marketing contractor for a few months over the summer, launched their new commercially supported Drupal products today. They’re helping make it easier to set up and run Drupal powered websites — you don’t need to be ...

At 2:30 today, President-elect Barack Obama will hold his first press conference since the election. Reporters will ask him for his magical plan to fix the miserable economy and Obama will announce that out-of-work Americans will be relocated to state-run Unicorn Ranches, or something, and the markets will rally, hooray. But he'll make no personnel announcements! Those wondering who might end up on his presidential money team could look at his current advisors, of course. Obama's assembled a 17-member all-star team of economic advisors, from Lawrence Summers and Robert Rubin, who helped create the current crisis under the Clinton administration (Republican talking points yay!!) to the chairman of Google and Warren Buffet, America's two last remaining rich people. Obama's been totally cold to the press for the entirety of the campaign, and reporters don't actually like him very much, so it might be interesting. Obama to meet economic advisors after grim jobs data Reuters

Of all the announcements to come out of Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles, Webware Editor Rafe Needleman is most excited about the company's version of Google Docs. On this Daily Debrief, he explains to CNET's Kara Tsuboi why he's pleased to see a competitor to Google's free, shareable, Web-based program and why Microsoft's entry to the market could be timed just right.

DJ Unother (who has submitted the best mixes by far) has offered his bandwidth and disc space for DJs and producers who would like to feature a mix or tunes on DnBPodcast (that pass our quality standards). You can check out DJ Unother if you will be in NYC on February 20th, 2007 at Camouflage. ...

San Francisco, Calif — AES: iZotope, Inc., a leading innovator in audio signal processing technology, announces iZotope Ozone 4, an update to its critically-acclaimed software mastering suite. Ozone 4 builds on the program’s reputation for superior sound quality and industry-standard mastering tools with new innovations. iZotope has updated and expanded Ozone’s processing algorithms, optimizing them ...

San Francisco, Calif. — AES: Cakewalk, the world’s leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, announces SONAR V-Studio 700, the ultimate solution for music production. SONAR V-Studio 700 represents the first and flagship product in the next generation V-Studio line of Cakewalk branded hardware and software solutions. With ...

San Francisco, Calif. — AES: Digidesign today unveiled the third and newest member of its acclaimed Digidesign 003 family " 003 Rack+ Factory. Featuring eight high-quality microphone preamps, 003 Rack+ Factory is a powerful option for those needing additional mic inputs to handle more complex recording projects. Today, Pro Tools LE users are taking on ...

Los Angeles, Calif. — AES: Meet the new Pro Tools 8 " the most advanced audio creation and production software, featuring a gorgeous new interface; dozens of new plug-ins; five new virtual instruments; exciting new scoring, MIDI, editing, and mixing capabilities; deeper controller integration; improved ease of installation and use; and enhanced performance. With Pro ...

Its been a recurring theme of our monthly most read wrap-up all year, but September 2008 will hereby be remembered as THE month for festival announcements and updates, with all 10 of our most popular items concerning the upcoming summer season.

What a weekend! Such lovely weather and so many big events and lots of stars did things secretly enough to merit blind items. After the jump we have a reality show judge with bad Botox, an unliked guest star starlet, a lesbian nanny, a former druggie starlet, a private school with Wall Street worries, a star with pee on his shoes, and an angry divorce. 1) "Which reality-TV judge was absent from two of her top-rated shows because she had a bad reaction to Botox? Spies said the fashionista's face 'swelled up like a cauliflower'" [P6] 2) "Which stunning TV actress can't stand the Hollywood starlet who's guest-starring on her show? The series' main character "is furious" at her co-star, who always shows up late and has friends hanging around the set." [P6] 3) "Which new Hollywood mommy is so worried her husband will cheat on her that she insisted their housekeeper/nanny be a lesbian?" [P6] 4) "Which supposedly squeaky-clean starlet was a big fan of some pretty hardcore drugs back in college? Her favorite taglin

There's been plenty for high-end camera enthusiasts to drool over in recent times - Nikon's D90, Canon's EOS 50d and some serious professional hardware announcements from Leaf and Hasselblad. Now Sony has added to the smorgasbord with the announcement of a new top-model for its alpha DSLR range - the A900. Not only does the unit pack a whopping 24.6 megapixel resolution, but it does so with full-frame CMOS sensor that's equivalent to a 35mm film frame...

Related Articles: Totally new digital SLR system from Olympus Sony enters the digital SLR camera market Nikon release small footprint D-60 digital SLR 11.1 Megapixel Canon Liquid Image offers hands-free underwater image capture Sony debuts x12 optical zoom and image stabilisation Cyber-shot

Noho: The people are just chomping at the bit for the new AvroKO space Double Crown to open. First DBTH took a peek inside at the communal table while workers set up for a private event. Then both TONY and Rare Daily ran their respective opening announcements. Now a correspondent files another new shot, this time angled at the bar with some sweet red leather chair action in the foreground. As noted in the Opening Report, the place will be closed tonight, and the next four, for private parties. But breathe. You'll get your chance at her, and hopefully her connected lounge Madam Geneva, after Tuesday.

Thursday Opening Report: Shi Certified Open, Double Crown Next Week [~E~]

A fair number of peripheral announcements hit Kit this week, along with news on AMD's chip plans through the end of the year, a few more netbooks, and HP's claim of 24-hour battery life. Read More...

While we're transfixed by the presidential election, in the world of high tech another duel between two well-funded, take-no-quarter candidates has just emerged & and in the long run the impact on our daily lives may be nearly as great -- and perhaps even sinister. As you probably heard, on Monday -- that is, on a national holiday, when business announcements are almost never made -- Google rolled out Chrome, its new Web browser. Why? Because Google's ambitions are bigger than most of us have ever imagined, and the company is now rich enough, and powerful enough, to execute them -- even if it means the short-term sacrifice of a major new revenue source. One more thing: If Google pulls off this strategy, it will be the most valuable company on the planet. It will also be the scariest & and we should start worrying about that right now.

OK, so for the past several months I've been sending random text messages to Eurotrash.

Jokes, sarcasm, lewd remarks, birthday announcements, "you better come to the damned G9 show!"

The responses I've gotten back have been minimal, cryptic and sometimes outright confusing.

Since he's not one for...

Given the massive surge we have seen today on the SXSW Interactive Panel Picker voting interface, we have decided to keep the polls open through the Labor Day weekend. Votes and comments will be accepted through 11:59 pm on Monday, September 1 -- so you should have a little more time to browse the 1300+ proposals that have been submitted for the 2009 Interactive event. Also, if all goes as planned, we should be making the first round of programming announcements (i.e., accepted ideas) in early October. Happy voting, Happy Labor Day, Happy SXSW Interactive.