The World Cup draw is tomorrow! The US barely missed being one of the eight seeded teams (but rival Mexico was seeded), chiefly because of the poor showing at the 1998 Cup. The FIFA rankings have a long memory, unfortunately. On the flip side, another strong run in Germany would go a long ways towards […]
Went out with Greg, Sandy, Nyk, and Corey to hang out and have a beer or more this evening. Some notable quotes from the evening: Sandy Oh was I drunk? Sometimes I’m a virgin when I’m drunk Nyk Greg, why do you have to be so f*cking belligerent Corey Five or six long island ice
It still looks like Bolivians will elect Evo Morales, a coca farmer who’s promised to make coca growing legal again, as the next president. Elections will be held on the 18th of the month and Morales has an 32.8% to 27.7% lead over the other leading candidate Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga. Morales lost the 2002 elections
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Jeff Agoos retired today. His career included championships with DC United and San Jose, and a year with the Metrostars, and 134 caps for the national team. Although he had a penchant for costly own goals or mistakes – the ones against Jamaica in the 98qualifiers and in the Portugal map during the 2002 World
Sandy went through one recently and Tony switched his look yesterday. I really liked the layout for Tony’s blog, particularly the pictures in the right most column, so I decided to emulate it. CSS as usual, made this really, really easy. I’d appreciate any feedback, if you actually read posts on my site instead of
Researchers find that dogs can laugh and it calms other dogs. I’m not sure if this qualifies a genuine breakthrough but its interesting none the less. Dogs can show aggression, fear, and other emotional responses so pleasure and “laughing” shouldn’t be out of reach. They say the long, loud pant is the sound of a
I know I’m a bit late to the game, but some of you may not know that Mozilla Firefox 1.5, was released last week. If you are still using Internet Explorer on your Windows machine, you should install and start using Firefox because its more secure, faster, and extendable. This Introduction to Firefox is a
Since I configured my mail server, I was getting the following lines in my auth.log. Everything was working, users had to log in to receive or send mail, so the messages were really cluttering the logfile. Nov 28 00:02:39 rm-003-11 lmtpunix[1085]: sql_select option missingNov 28 00:02:39 rm-003-11 lmtpunix[1085]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism availableNov 28 00:05:44
Sandy’s use of MacSFTP to connect to our server, for some unknown reason, was causing a PAM authentication failure – even though it would log him in fine. Since I installed fail2ban to protect the server against SSH script-kiddie attacks, he got banned a couple times since a line that said "Authentication failure" popped into