When Freddy Adu debuts professionaly for DC United this Saturday, he will become the youngest professional athlete in American Sports since some guy in baseball a long time ago. Already, the lower bowl at RFK is practically sold out and United’s management has decided on keeping the upper bowl closed to increase demand. It’s a […]
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This one is mostly for my friends with blogs on Dork Tower. I figure I could aim it to you all individually or post it here instead.
I’m not sure what gods we angered at work but one of our production servers has been quite unruly this week which has left me with little time to post to my blog.
Washington Post has a good writeup about DC United rookie Josh Gros who went from the Marines to fighting for a developmental spot on the team. If anything, thanks to 10 weeks in basic training he should be in great shape for the upcoming season. Before his senior year at Rutgers, unsure whether he had
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Just under two weeks before the new MLS season and HQ just announced some rule changes for 2003. First, overtime is gone to stay in line with recent FIFA mandates that golden goal overtimes can’t be used. This brings league games in line with how they are played in the rest of the world. While
The International Herlad Tribune has an article on Tim Howard’s play for Manchester United. We watched the Porto-ManU match last week and it looked like his defense was leaving him out to dry too often, including the final goal. So maybe he can keep his cool while all about are losing theirs? The ball going
Bayesian filtering has come to the fore for being exceedingly good at identifying spam. The Mozilla email clients use it and they are excellent, once trained, in separating real spam from false positives. IBM Developer works shows how to implement Bayesian inference in PHP.
As much as the studios go after p2p and legitimate users for stealing content, it seems they need to keep a closer eye on their own employees. From the Smoking Gun, Fox Employee in Film Piracy Probe. Secret Service agents last month raided the Los Angeles home of a Fox Entertainment employee suspected of involvement
We use AIM at work, most of the time its pretty useful. Except at times like this afternoon when I feel like Hercules fighting the Hydra. As soon as I get answer someone’s question, two more pop up for me to deal with.