This is a great read on the history and role of FastCGI given the rise and popularity of “CGI Frameworks”, as the author calls them, like Rails, Django, and Zope. One of those rare entries where I learn a lot from each paragraph. Why does this matter? Because these are large frameworks written in interpreted […]
Just poking fun at our bery own goal-scoring defender! All in all, its a great recognition of just how good Boswell can be if Bruce has brought him in for a look at training camp, after starting the 2005 season as an undrafted rookie with DC United. I hope this coming season that Nowak finds
Bolivia’s president elect is on a worlwide tour visiting foreign governments including China, Cuba, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Venezuela, and brazil. The US has asked to talk to him, according to the State Department. Morales may meet with the US once he’s been inaugurated. Shannon emphasized how important it is for Washington to continue the
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It’s a gray day here in Virginia, so this might cheer some of us up: Serenity Might Fly Again? …the movie’s sales on DVD, which came out on Dec. 20, are running neck-and-neck with the hit comedy Wedding Crashers, which bodes well for a possible Serenity sequel.
Via my dad, comes this link to a PC World article asking “Do Burned CDs Have a Short Life Span?”. The expert in the article suggests that for long term storage, use magentic tape to store files you want preserved for decades. For your average home user, burning copies to CD’s I think is still
Two interesting posts on The Sports Economists today. The first points to a story pinting out that Britain’s high tax rate puts the Premier League at a disadvantage relative to its Continental neighbors, forcing English clubs to offer higher wages to players in order to remain competitive. The firm said a player seeking net pay
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More people requested tickets during the pre-sale then are available, so there will be no public sale of tickets. People who submitted an application will find out by January 14th if they got tickets.
Apparently, according to Los Alamos researchers Soccer ‘the most exciting sport’ if you define exciting as how easy it is to predict the winner of any given match up. The results showed that the “upset frequency” was highest for soccer followed by baseball, hockey, basketball and finally American football. Now, its a bit of a
I was telling Sandy on our way back from lunch today that what I was hoping TiVo would announce an HDTV TiVo soon, and tonight I see that at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas they announced HD TiVo Series 3 The tuner thing should be qualified though, because it will actually have 6(!) tuners.
According to the US Soccer site, the private sale for tickets to the National Team’s matches at this year’s World Cup Finals in Germany ends today. Not sure when exactly they’ll inform the lucky folks who get tickets.