FIFA has agreed to broadcast the next World Cup in widescreen format. That is, the letterbox format used in movies. It sounds like a perfect ploy to get soccer fans around the world to upgrade their television sets. If its not broadcast in High-def though, I can't imagine the extra image room adding much to the experience. Plus, if you keep an old 4:3 set until then, you'd have to put up with ugly black bars at the top and bottom of your screen. Luckily, we're already planning to be in Germany in 2006!

But put those numbers against the cumulative World Cup audience of roughly 44 billion viewers in more than 200 countries, and you begin to see why Philips would spend big to be the next games' sole consumer electronics sponsor.

Apparently the Washington DC area felt an earthquake today. My friend Nyk thought I was making fun of his boots when I asked him if he had noticed it. Luckily I was alerted by my Eddie Pope and Bobby Convey bobbleheads. The movement was very subdued, not enough to move books or anything on my desk but enough to cause it to humm.

Here's another picture my dad dug up, just a month or so after Patty had adopted Buster. I think he looks like one of those dog bobbleheads people have in their cars.