PEAR Auth gotcha
I’ve filed a bug report.
Another reason World Cup tickets are in short supply.
So, as we all know, tickets to the World Cup are in pretty high demand. One rather silly reason why supply may be lower than it should be for the general public are marketing gimimicks like this one from Toshiba. If you purchase a Toshiba Qosmio Q30, you can get one ticket to a match.
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Is there really an income gap?
Cafe Hayek rightly takes an AP reporter to task for not questioning a recent study that found “Rich-Poor Income Gap Growing“. So while it sounds that inflation adjusted wages increased across the board, ie the income distribution (if you can think of it as a bell-shaped normal distribution) moved to the right. Which is good,
Howto: Gallery2 pics in sidebar
It is actually a bit of a story, and it began with upgrading my installation of gallery from version 1 to version 2. Gone in version 2, at the time, was syndication via rss of pictures. That’s originally how I had the pictures published to the right side of my blog. There’s an RSS plugin
Access United
DC united have launched Access United, a multimedia offering with behind-the-scenes goodies. It’s a window media video, so if you’re not using Windows, expect to jump through some hoops to get it to play, if you can at all.
Evo Morales mobilized by US incompetence?
Another examples of US actions that backfired included threatening to pull all aid to Bolivia, four years ago. It has happened before. During the 2002 Bolivian elections, when Morales was a first-time candidate little known outside of the country, the U.S. ambassador at the time, Manuel Rocha, stated publicly that if Morales was elected, the
What’s lando up to?
If you’re wondering what Landon Donovan does in the off season, apparently it involves wearing makeup.
Another Broadcast Flag Bill
The MPAA and RIAA are trying to get a variation of the broadcast flag passed again. This sneaks in a lot of control that would stifle innovation and give the content mill owners a veto over new devices. The full details and way to contact your representative are available on the EFF’s site: Stop the
WUSA2 in 2007?
This is a great way to cut operating costs for the Women’s team, and get more use out of each stadium. Now the only question is, will they Women’s team be formally affilated with the Men’s teams? I am skeptical, however, that if you have an MLS team you automatically have a buil in fan
MLS Draft Observation
My friend Chris and I discussing DC’s Draft of Jeff Carroll: Chris vS.: Jaff Carrol Chris vS.: jeff Oscar: yeah, just saw Chris vS.: what is up with the brother connection in this draft Oscar: lol Oscar: mls figures they can survive better on a developmental salary if they can live with their brothers Chris