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...We’ve had a really long week and a half,” Stone said. “We’ve had some really tough games and the kids have done well. We’ll just loosen up Thursday and tweak a few things strategically, and then we’ll be ready to go on Friday night...
...billion miles. You're still managing an unruly bunch of little people, but now they're trying to build industries--ranging from tourism to chicken farming--on alien worlds, and are beset all the while by bothersome creepy crawlies of every variety. Unfortunately, you don't get to tweak the personalities of these little people as you do in the Sims. But the built-in cast of characters is plenty entertaining. Venus Jones is the coolheaded heroine who must keep together a string of interplanetary colonies; her cohorts become happier and more productive if you raise their allowances, make them...
...like with one of your networked notebooks, experiment with the router's placement. Indoor range should be about 300 ft., but will be significantly reduced by walls, hallways and other barriers. If you are getting interference from a baby monitor or microwave, try changing the channel (a minor tweak in your router's basic settings). If your cordless phone is a problem, get one that automatically looks for a clear channel or, better yet, one that uses the 5.8-GHz band...
...know what the builders are up to. Home Designer Suite 6.0 ($99; Windows only), from Better Homes and Gardens, can help give you more creative input. The program uses baby-step tutorials to help you set a floor plan with walls, windows, doors and roof, then tweak as needed. You can then print your creation as a usable architectural blueprint, complete with an estimated project cost. Other tools help with remodeling, landscaping and even furnishing your home. Still, it can't do everything. While you don't need design experience to use Home Designer, without a fertile imagination...
Still, pop isn't just music. It's a package, and Aiken has had numerous frustrations with the way RCA has tried to tweak his image. Everyone--label, management and Aiken--was thrilled with Aiken's Rolling Stone cover shoot, so photographer Matthew Rolston was hired to direct a video for This Is the Night. In it the story line was...Clay Aiken does a magazine photo shoot. "They had me in this tight little vintage T shirt and jeans and a leather jacket," says Aiken. "And [Rolston] had me sing the song in one scene with this angst attitude...