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Hey folks. It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve posted last, so I thought I would let you know what is going on with Dorkazine. It is officially in transition to the new server. I was hoping to have it moved over by now, but the move to a new CMS makes it a little more difficult. I want to preserve all posts, comments and other data.

Of course, the trip to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) hasn’t been helping. CES is a lot bigger for us because we will be doing live video from the CES floor. Our good friends at NBC Universal are letting us borrow the stage to do our show on Saturday (4 PM PST) and Sunday (3 PM PST).

Dorkazine will be back on regular production after Jan 12. That is, unless I see some dorky items at CES. Then I might upload some great pictures….

So Happy New Year. It’s gonna be a Blue Moon this New Years’ eve, then we celebrate the new decade. So let’s look back at the dorky 00′s!

• Y2K
• Windows ME and Windows Vista
• Dot Com Bubble
• Ginger – the Segway project
• Pets.com puppet pimps himself out Bar None
• Email Stamps
• Paris Hilton’s phone hacked
• Sarah Palin’s email hacked
• Duke Nukem’s failed restart
• Telsa Motors fall
• TJX Credit Card Thefts
• HD-DVD vs. Blu Ray
• Goodbye CompUSA and Circuit City. Hello SystemMax
• The Polaroid camera signs off
• Gates – Seinfeld commercials
• Million Pixel Ad Boards
• The Yahoo – Microsoft – Google – AOL debacle
• The Twitter Fail Whale
• AOL buys Time Warner
• Goodbye Charles Schultz
• The “Chad” issue in Florida
• Same Sex Marriage issues
• Smoking Ban issues
• The end of the Microsoft Anti-trust issues
• Enron
• 9/11
• The Mark Zuckerberg Interview at SXSW
• Stephen Colbert for President
• Stephen Colbert to Space
• Goodbye to the Concorde
• George Bush gets a free shoe
• The Lybia ban was lifted by the US
• Goodbye Oldsmobile
• Bill Gates gets hit with a Pie
• O.J. Simpson tempts fate – and looses
• The Scream dissapears
• Katrina
• Saddam Hussein execution
• The first Human Face Transplant
• The Leap Second – Twice in the Decade
• The Large Hadron Collider up and down
• Bandwidth Caps
• Pluto is no longer a planet
• Fighting for Oil
• H1N1
• Steve Jobs health
• The Onion becomes real news (for one reporter)
• Mylie Cyrus leaves Twitter
• From 3 MP to 10 MP
• G4 buys and ruins TechTV

What other items should be added to this list?

It was on this day in 1991 a television show was first broadcast on NBC. While I am not a big fan of it, I have seen my share of episodes and it still has a major cult fan base. From Cosmo to George, Elaine to Jerry.

Jerry – “He’s talking about Seinfeld!”

George – “There is NO WAY he is talking about us!”

Jerry – “But the title suggests he is”

George – “It could be a rouse”.

Kramer – “He’s got a point Jer”

Elaine – “How can it be a rouse? George, you are stupid. Everything points to him talking about us”.

Jerry – “OK. Maybe it can be a rouse. But it SOUNDS like he’s talking about us. ”

George – “I think he’s talking about us and I don’t want to be a part of that punchline. I’M OUTTA HERE”.

pause…

Kramer – “Do you really think he’s not talking about us Jerry?”

Jerry – “Of course he’s talking about us! George is just going on one of his tirades once again. After all, why WOULDN’T he wan’t to talk about us?”

pause…

Kramer – “You got a point there, Jer”.

The first Series episode of “Seinfeld” aired on January 23rd, 1991. Now you might say “Hey! Wait a minute! Seinfeld has been around a lot longer than that!” – and you are right. Seinfeld Technically started in 1989 as “the Seinfeld Chronicles”. The series officially got a timeslot on the 23rd after NBC’s popular show “Night Court”. The show was suppose to air on January 21st, but the Persian Gulf War was to start that day, so execs decided to push the show back a couple days.

Seinfeld went 9 seasons and 180 episodes before it’s last hurrah on May 14th 1998.

So to this milestone, we say “Good job Seinfeld”.