Announcement of a new MLS Labor Agreement was released today, on a friday afternoon to guarantee low exposure(?). It’s a 5 year collective bargaining agreement. We’ve come a long way in 10 years, when the players actual sued the league. Not many details, but minimum salary will go from about $28k to $34k by 2009, […]
If you’ve got a couple domains that you run, you should check out http://www.dnsreport.com/ and use its tools to make sure everything is set up as it should be. It’ll tell you if your configuration is valid, the address is set to receive email, and also point out potential trouble spots. I used it and
Midfielder Bobby Convey and defender Ryan Nelsen both made the jump from DC United to the English leagues last year and have had quite different experiences. Bobby Convey left for first division club Reading, hoping to help the club earn promotion to the premier league. Despite high expectations, he has found himself sitting on the
My Dad’s been figuring out how to convert his music records to a digital format, since his stereo no longer has a turntable. The post has an article title Digital Transformation Revives Old Records which mentions the Audacity software project. You can also use a free, open-source program, Audacity (Win 95 or newer, Mac OS
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I’ve uploaded some pictures from last night’s United vs Pumas game. They were taken with my camera phone and as a result, aren’t all that great. They’re worth taking a look at if you’re curious about how RFK will look as a soccer field now that the stadium is shared with the nationals.
Couldn’t find one so whipped one up myself. Tested on Firefox and I suspect it won’t work in Safari. For some reason I can’t get the new window to get focus(). This bit of javascript code grabs whatever you have selected (preferable an address) and displays it in google maps. Drag this Google Maps linksto
Along with some layout tweaks, I now provide an RSS feed of comments left on my posts. I also realized that you could leave a comment without supplying a valid email address and have fixed that bug.
This class, cleverly named PHP Input Filter, definitely merits further investigation. It filters input to prevent Cross-site Scriptin Attacks.
The USA rebounded from Sunday’s loss with a convincing 2-0 win over Guatemala. The team looked a lot more offensive minded today. Some sharper shooting would have added to the goal total and made the win more satisfying. It was nice to see Steve Ralston get his goal, he’s been a solid MLS player since
The US put up a decent fight in the second half but could not recover from two quick first-half Mexican goals and excellent ball control from their rivals. Much of the blame for the loss has to be directed at Bruce Arena for starting a relatively inexperienced Oguchi Onyewu (write that without a spellchecker!) along