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-- Friday, February 21, 2003 --

Well, here's my blog. I'm putting this up because I'm bored out of my mind and I've been stuck in my house for the last 5 days or so thanks to THE BLIZZARD OF 2003. No reason that's in capitals, just felt it should be.

Anyway, as my editor so aptly put it, "FUCK THE NATIONAL SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION."

We here at Silver Chips Online have been screwed yet again. The Pacemaker Finalists were announced and we were absent from the list. Beaten out by nice looking sites that haven't updated in months. A few of the papers are good and deserve to be there. The rest got there are on looks alone and that, pure and simple, is bull shit. I've lost all respect for the organization. The people who judge the award must be old fucktards who don't know what it means to be a good online paper. Look at the Washington Post's site. It's everything a good online publication should be. It isn't just layout that makes or breaks an online paper as they seem to think over at NSPA. You have to have frequent, quality updates. That's something we've always valued. That's something we've always done well. Maybe we aren't the best online paper out there, but we're better than most of the finalists on that list. We're one of the most popular according to Yahoo! so we must be doing something right.

All right, that's the end of my venting. I'm taking over as editor-in-chief next year so I have to prove I'm passionate about this stuff every once in a while.

In other news: Duke beat Maryland. Words cannot express the joy i felt after the Blue Devils won that game. It moved them into a tie for second place, but more importantly, it did wonders for the team's confidence and set them back on the right track. After that bull shit loss to Wake Forest in double OT, they needed a positive. They finally won a road game, beating a decent team in Virginia, and then turned around to punch the Terps in the mouth at Cameron. JJ may also have snapped the funk he's been in. Watch out for the Blue Devils in March. They have a good shot at making it to the Sweet 16 yet again.

Well, that's all I can think to write about for now. Gnight.

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