NBC’s Olympic ratings in the US just made the guarantee to sponsors. An analysis of the ratings is posted at the Sports Economist “Olympic TV Ratings in the US“ I’m posting this here for future refrence as it’d be interesting to compare the Olympic’s ratings with those for the World Cup this summer. I don’t […]
The Motley Fool has a good feature looking at the outlook for TiVo from both a bullish and bearish perspective. I still have hope for TiVo, I know Sandy and Greg were impressed a bit when I pulled up my music collection to stream to my living room. In the next few years, I think
The US team handily beat Guatemala 4-0 in another preparatory friendly yesterday. For the US to solidify itself as a regional power, it has to take care of the minnows without breaking a sweat. Bruce Arena has his team doing that, and yesterday emphasizes that we’ve been doing this consistently for more than a year
ABC News reporter Nydia Han ignored facts about the Nintendo DS’s wireless capabilities in order to run a misleading report about the danger’s of the Nintendo DS’ Pictochat. What’s not in the story is anything explained by the GamerDad this reporter consulted before going to air. On Monday morning, I received a call from Nydia
Wonderful post and a great tile, HITS – How idiots track success: For those of you who have been around the web for more than a year or two, you have no excuse for continuing to equate success to number of HITS. Stop embarrassing yourself. If you really are new to the web or intranet
Via FootballCorner, swedish striker Henrik Larson is return to Helsinborg at the end of the Spanish season. The striker joined Barcelona from Celtic in 2004 but missed most of last season with a knee injury. Larsson also came out of international retirement in order to help his country qualify for this year’s World Cup finals.
The script below does the same and only depends on mutt (or another command line email client) being installed. A better solution would be not to email the file but to setup ssh key authentication on another server and use scp (secure copy) to send the file over. That way, your database file is transferred
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Yup, its a World Cup year, that means US Soccer and MLS try to get some publicity and exposure from a non-sports magazine. This year its Maxim, as the press release on mlsnet.com tells us. I’m going to hazard a guess and say that at least these won’t be as bad as the GQ pictures
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As fans, we often direct a lot of abuse towards referees, rightly or wrongly forgetting oftentimes what a thankless task they have. In "Another referee’s revolution?", we get a glimpse of the politicking at the US Soccer Federation and how it inhibits hampers referee development. Forget the facts that "senior referees who were not being
This week has been quite busy both at work and at home, I haven’t made time to blog as frequently as in recent weeks. One of the things that I finally tackled was upgrading apache on this server from 1.3 to 2.0. All hail debian. The process was really smooth, because it was simple to