Garry Kasparov wrote a commentary about his retirement in the WSJ [whcih you need a subscription to read] but you can't really tell if it was a political campaigne advertisement [he's getting into Russian politics], a book promotion, a consulting teaser or a sincere announcement of his retirement from 30 years of professional Chess? It looks like it might be all of the above. That's too bad. I would like to have seen a brilliant guy like Kasparov retire more gracefully.
Network Solutions is having a sale on URL's. Mine (http://www.douglasross.com) doesn't do anything at the moment (I'm saving it for a rainy day) but it was coming up on ten years and I needed to renew it to protect my name. So I decided to take them up on their pay-in-advance 20 year package sale for $279.00 or $13.95 per year (about half of the regular annual fee...probably not that good a deal in hindsight.) But the kicker was, after I hit the pay button it dawned on me that I'll be over 83 years old when this thing expires. How creepy is that? If I make it I'll take it as a good sign and re-up for another 20 years. And by then maybe I'll have done something with it.
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