The Washington Post has a great feature on DC’s fiery Alecko Eskandarian who’s learned that "it’s fun to hit defenders". After his two goal game, Jaime Moreno has been named MLS Player of the Week for the second time this season and sixth in his career.
I’m pleased to announce a cool mapping application I hacked together this weekend which lets you see on a map where each National Team’s player’s clubs are located. At the moment, I’ve only included England, Spain, the United States, and Mexico but will be adding more teams as the World Cup approaches. Some things you
The Hollywood cartels may try to get hardware companies to put in DRM controls via HDMI with the promise not to use them for 7-8 years. The effect is that if your screen or recorder isn’t blessed by Hollywood, they can limit the video they send to it to a low-resolution image. Manufacturers who want
Two posts worth reading, first fallout on the financial repercusion of the Italian Soccer scandal. Shares in Juventus have fallen 40% since the news broke, amid repeated trading halts on the Milan stock exchange. And another on the measureable effect losses have on national economies. …losses in soccer matches have an economically and statistically significant
Posted here to make all the other soccer bloggers jealous. I just received this message from my wife: Ok…so if DC United ever does this….we need to bid on it =) This is better than my autographed t-shirt!http://auction.mlsnet.com/cgi…85084
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A good overview of the mod_security module for apache can be found at pathfinder. Mod_security is a good application firewall that can help protect and apache server from common application level attacks (sql injection, email header injeciton, cross-site scripting) by inspecting the payload of requests coming to the server. Its very useful in quickly putting
The Washington Times discusses MLS’s proposed "Beckham Rule" today. Nothing really new, except for a clarification. If you’re not familiar, the Beckham Rule is meant to allow MLS teams to pay a player outside of the communist confines of the $1.6M salary cap (btw, wasn’t it closer to $2M?). Now, we all know that a
When my wife see’s this spot now, all she does is point out how many times Taylor Twellman appears. I don’t know why I like this commercial so much, there’s something very subtle about it. Never mind that it wasn’t until the second time that I saw it that I realized the song being played.