Someone's finally tried to leave automated comment spam on my blog. I noticed this late Monday night and had to turn off comments as a result. I've put in some behind the scenes measures to prevent it and hopefully it'll take care of it. If not, I'll have to put in one of those funky "what's this word in the image" thingies.

So Chelsea did enough tonight to get a 2-1 win over DC United. The whole match was meaningless in the grand scheme of things, nothing really on the line for either team. Plus, you can't take seriously a match where the opposition puts in 10 subs at half time! I found it hard to care about this result, I'll be more worried and looking forward to the next match against the Metrostars for example. It is an attitude that a lot folks found perplexing, particularly fans who might go to one or two united games a season. They were really surprised that Staci and I werent' going to the game. "But its Chelsea!" they'd say and I'd say something polite. But its the usual mid-season friendly against a European team. It's hard to say that it proves anything about "how far MLS has come".

It looks likely that my earlier PC troubles were caused by a bad power supply. Thanks to Jason who pointed out that it might be heat, but since the symptoms happened right as I started it up, when all the components are relatively cool, I didn't think it'd be heat related.  I swapped in the power supply from my arcade machine, a lowly 150W, and its been humming along without crashes since. I've got a new power supply ordered and on the way. I won't get a cool new case, instead I opted for a supply that was rated as being pretty quiet as well, the Seasonic Super Silencer 300W.