Stupid region controls on video games. Why can I import the Japanese version of Winning Eleven 6 for the Gamecube but not the European version of International Superstar Soccer 3? Looks like I’m either going to have to move out of the USA, where instead we get crap soccer games like SEGA Soccer Slam and […]
There are those who like to see the occasional big team that’s coming through town and who don’t have any real allegiance to a particular team. It may be Juventus in a friendly or Brazil coming to play in a tournament. I have cousing like this in Bolivia who don’t attend domestic league matches but
Really good set of guidelines for writing php libraries that others might be able to use can be found at LaughingMeme.
Some people hate when a blog is just a collection of links to other places but here goes… You can now support Mozilla projects by buying stuff from the Mozilla activism shop Why you should switch to Mozilla’sThunderbird browser on Windows on DKR Productions: These are all great reasons, and should be enough to convince
An interesting article on IBMP’s developer works site touches on how to Take Web data analysis to the next level with PHP. I was expecting an article geared toward getting more interesting metrics out of site access logs but the article focused on using chi-square tests with nominal data like survey results. This article was
Today is Staci’s birthday so if you see her or have a chance to drop her an email, wish her a happy one! PS – it’s also Bolivia’s independence day today.
I’ve always had an itch to write a web-based soccer management game, even though there are a number of them already out there like Hattrick There are a lot of intesting probabilistic problems in simulating a soccer match and league season such as: How many, what kinds of attributes to you need to describe players?
I’ve written the CSS behind the scenes to use ems (not points or pixels) so that the font size display respects a user’s preferences, something which some human clients don’t quite get yet. I’m using an HTML form which fires an email to me. I’d put my email address on here but don’t want to
RIAA Radar is a cool application that you can use when browsing Amazon for music to avoid CDs distributed by a members of the RIAA.
The next time you’ll get a new browser from Microsoft is when you shell out money for Longhorn. Realistically, sounds like we won’t see significant uptake of Longhorn for another five years. Windows users, stuck with a browser that isn’t advancing, will look to alternatives, like Mozilla, Mozilla’s Firebird Project, or Opera. These browsers already