Jeremy Zawodny has a piece on new, custom Yahoo Search Feeds. This looks great not only for tracking high profile issues lots of people are interested in, but also for digging up news you might not otherwise find. However, looks like if there are no results, instead of getting an empty feed you get a 404 page.

Based on the comments on his site, sounds like sometimes refreshing the link might help

As a DC United and MLS fan, I was pretty worried about the league two years ago when it decided to contract its 2 Florida based teams. It's incredible how things have changed since then!

The year we had another soccer-specific stadium openened in LA, another breaking ground in Dallas, and plans for the same in NY, Chicago, and Colorado, and now we're hearing that new investors are coming on board. This off season should have a lot more good news concerning expansion as read in this interview of AEG president Tim Leiweke.

AEG, which currently owns half of the teams in MLS, played a major role in deciding the way forward when the league folding Miami and Tampa at the end of the 2001 season, as MLS' investors gave a guarantee of investment for at least five more years.

That agreement now appears to have been extended into the 10-year plan.

I've just finished upgrading my sister's pc, which we use to share a dial-up connection, to Mandrake 9.1. ( Yes-dialup, I'm 2 miles from AOL's headquarters and the closest to broadband that I can get is wireless or satellite.) I can't say that the install was a piece of cake - the installer crashed on me a couple times until I ran it in advanced mode, and although I did an upgrade first I had to go back and do a complete install for the distribution. Upgrade pains aside, the KDE 3.1 desktop looks very nice and polished, and the system feels more resposive.

I wanted to highlight two software packages that anyone using NAT over linux should be running:

• First, if you are running Mandrake stay away from DrakConnect's Internet Connection Sharing Wizard and uninstall the Shorewall firewall package. Instead go over and grab Firestarter. After spending hours trying to get drakconnect to share our connection I gave up. Firestarter had our connection shared and secured in under 5 minutes thanks to its setup wizard.
• Second, you should be running the Squid Web Proxy Cache with this ad-zapping perl script. Thanks to it, our connection is used much more efficiently, keeping cached copies pages and images locally while avoiding most banner ads altogether

While I can't claim our connection feels like a DSL connection, it definitely has more responsiveness to it and as I watch ms-rpc scans being blocked I can feel a bit more secure.