That’s right, Major League Soccer has relocated the San Jose Earthquakes to Houston. Damn, his time, its personal. Ok, maybe not that bad, but I had a soft spot for the quakes since a lot of my friends live in the bay area and, no less important, I met Staci out there. The cynic in […]
A judge has ruled that so-called “intelligent design” can not be mentioned as an alternative to the theory of evolution in public school biology classes. He agreed that the motivations of the school board members who instituted the policy were religious and amounted to nothing more than a repackaging of creationism. No doubt, Dover may
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If you don’t have access to cron on your server, but you want to run some php code periodically, this is a handy way of doing that using output caching and the date function. This assumes you’ll be using PEAR’s Cache module. Here’s the code, and and explanation. require_once( ‘Cache/Output.php’ );$cache = new Cache_output(‘file’, array(‘cache_dir’=>CACHE_DIR));$cache_id
Steve Goff did his latest chat on the washington post site yesterday. One of the questions, criticizing the playoff format states: Last year’s conference finals game at RFK against New England was the most entertaining MLS game I ever attended, and would not have been played under the new format as it was the second
When I scan through my aggregator, I don’t expect to ask my self “My sister is blogging about porn?” 😉
Fascinating how the seemingly little decisions can make a crucial difference. But you also can’t agonize and try to get everything perfect from the get go. This guy had $13 million to build a del.icio.us like service 5 years ago and it failed. Now, he’s sharing what he’s learned. I dont think it was that
Seemingly out of nowhere, Goff is reporting that DC United has made some offseason contract moves. Olsen and Rimando are resigned, but no option pickup for Dema. Late forward signing Filomeno did not have his option picked up either, but the team is working to resign him at a lower salary. Hopefully they can come
The Soccer blogs aggregator continues to grow and last night I rolled out a new feature. You can now search the articles in the database and subscribe to the search results as an RSS or XML feed. I hope this will be really useful if you write a blog or are interested in a particular
My friend David R. sent me the link to a paper from the investigating the effect that international footbal competitions have on the stock market. The authors found a statistically significant decline in stock returns after losses in World Cup elimination matches. Their model attributes the loss effect on reduced productivity or loss revenues. Curiously,
According to DCist, Untied knows How to sell a stadium. Of course, having private funding behind the deal goes a longer way than asking for handouts for rich sports team owners. And beyond all the talk of job opportunities, affordable housing, and economic development, DC United officials have sworn that their stadium will be privately-financed,