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
“publications that see large chunks of their readership drop away due to an offense to a community might self-censor to avoid further damage to their balance sheet. I dont think this threat outweighs the need of citizens to have a way to express their own viewpoints in opposition.” There’s some evidence that one of the
In the 3rd part Andry tells of what is was like to join Newcastle United that was in turmoil and under a lot of pressure. But he left with good memories and probably a little bit wiser. I came into a side that was a decent team but the pressure on them was enormous, although
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Andres at Web 2.0 Technologies has a very informative post about how to use object oriented techniques to implement a robust event broadcasting and listening in javascript. Follow his advise an dmake your code more reusable. What do you want to invoke when the checkbox object changes state? If you’re programming it in a non-reusable
The New York Times and The Times has the story of John Obi Mikel, a promising footballer who ended up on a yout contract for Lyn Oslo. It seems, Norway is exploiting a market niche by becoming a stopover for African players on their way to bigger clubs. By signing them and reselling them to
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