Sometimes, the things I post about have a strange way of intersecting. This past weekend, Bolivian president suffered a broken nose during a football match. Take note that while the BBC describes the game as "an indoor footbal match", based on the picture, it looks more like Futsal. Futsal is a small-sided (5 a side […]
I’m very happy to announce that I’ve been invited to contribute to The DCenters, one of the best DC United and American soccer focused blogs out there. I know for some of you, my wife included, the only interesting posts have been my soccer related posts. I invite you to add The DCenters to your
If like me or because of me, you’ve installed Thunderbird as your email client, you may have ignored some of the useful extensions that other users have written for the program. Below, are six extensions I recommend you install to make your email client of choice a little bit better and a lot more useful.
Two fixes of note over the last few weeks. I’ve fixed a bug in how I was parsing atom feeds, I was expecting an ‘issued’ date in the feed, but will now fall back on ‘published’ if its not there. Thanks to Jason from zigazoga for wondering why his feed didn’t appear. He’s also displaying
Host: On to our first question. Is Europe the answer? Oscar: I’m not convinced it is. I think when people pull out the Europe card, what they’re really saying is we need to get more of our players into more competitive leagues and matches. Alejandro: For now going abroad gives a player the chance to
Tuesday, June 20th and our fourth day in Frankfurt. We slept in more so than usual, the previous day on the Mainz river had worn us out. We decided to take it a little easier, and spent the afternoon walking around the Romer looking through all the touristy shops for souvenirs to bring home. For
Finally got frustrated that despite the obvious settings, Thunderbird was not using Firefox when I click on a link in an email on my Debian desktop. Instead it chose to launch Epiphany, despite the fact that I’d set Firefox as my browser under Gnome -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications. If you’re running into the same
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Lots of good numbers in today’s reuters story about Apple profits. I want to focus your brian on the fact that Apple;s share of the US notebook market had "doubled to 12 percent" in the last half of 2005. This means that 1 in 9 new laptops out there is not running Windows. More importantly,
Yahoo music is selling a music file as a plain vanilla MP3 file with no DRM. Could this position them to compete against iTunes effectively? Only if music available as a protected AAC file on iTunes is also purchasable as a plain MP3 file on Yahoo! Music. From slashdot. The rationale is on the Yahoo!
For MST3K fans, Mike Nelson launched Rifftrax where you can purchase commentary tracks for movies, currently featuring Road House. Just download the MP3 track and play during the movie. Then just cutout a silohoutte on black construction paper and tape to the bottom of your tv screen and enjoy! Do you feel that some of