Interesting article on the Washington Times about the popularity of sports message boards in which Sachin Shah mentions how we ended up being roomates at the beginning of this year. "Basically, a lot of us over the years have gotten to know each other on BigSoccer," Shah said. "I know of at least two couples […]
Kudos to this site for finding a market niche and exploiting it. I can’t say that I think its a sign of a healthy relationship when a guy resorts to using this service. "I think that this is probably one of the best ideas I’ve seen out there to help keep the romance going in
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Two and a half years ago, when I first dove into web development, I wasn’t very familiar with regular expressions. They certainly didn’t look regular to me, looked more like someone’s keyboard exploded. Now, having figured out a thing or two about them, I came across the following lines: $pos = strpos ( $this->user->privs, ‘del’);
I get the vibe that RSS is still a little too new for the powers that be to accept. Once you start using it however, RSS is one of those things that you’d come to miss REAL quick. I bet one year from now, most people will be finding interesting content from a website’s feed
Trying to saddle a software product with DRM/copy protection that is just going to piss off your customers doesn’t make you rich. Intuit learned this lesson the hard way. When Intuit launched the copy-control program, it predicted that revenue would increase, since customers who had previously purchased only one TurboTax program would have to buy
Yes, United managed another league tie this past weekend – but this time they scored a goal! Two observations: Ryan Nelsen is the man, both in defense and in midfield. Too bad he got red carded in this game. Nice to see a crowd of 21,00 at RFK to support DC through its worst league
The best quote of the article came from Ivan Gazidis that makes it sound like its no big deal that the biggest club (moneywise) in the world wants an MLS player. “There’s discussions about our top players every day, as clubs around the world express interest on a regular basis.”
Currently, the only thing left for us DC United fans is to remember the good old years. I’ll be at RFK stadium tonight to wish a fond farewell to John Harkes, one of my favorite player for DCU and the USA.
Interesting article forwarded to me by my cousin from the WSJ on Coca Eradication failing in Bolivia. Unfortunately you need a subscription to view it online but you can get a lot of info from Google News too. And from Erythroxylum: The Coca Plant The Andean culture and the coca plant have thrived for centuries.
PHP Architect magazine has a more detailed response to Microsoft’s comparison of PHP and .NET . Good to see most of the points I had made earlier written up here.