Google stole Orkut code. Affinity Engines claims Orkut Buyukkokten took code with him to Google.

I was able to go see the Braves play the Marlins again at Turner Field last night, yes, same teams as before, this time it was a night game… Literally…

Atlanta has been in monsoon season for the last few weeks, and we (Robyn and myself) were hoping, nay praying for a dry evening at the old ballpark, and for a while it looked favourable, until 10 minutes before the 7:35 pm opening pitch when it began to rain heavily. Where we were sitting (Lexus Level 1st row y’all) offered a little bit of cover from the rain but the wind changed for the worse and we had to move a few rows back to be completely covered. How long the rain delay would last, well no one knew, weather reports flashed up on the big screen saying the rain was moving away to the south but after an hour the rain was relentless, so we went inside to see what the Lexus Level had to offer, and it’s quite a nice area of the ballpark, shame it looked like a refugee camp with everyone inside hiding from the elements.

And thus it went on, it looked like we’d be having a game at about 9:30 when the ground crew came out to rapturous applause and began to lift the covers off, but they got half way before the rain came on again and they got booed out the park.

By now a lot of people, families mostly, had decided to cut their losses and head home as no one knew when, or indeed if, the game would be played. Eventually at 10:30 the rain ceased and it was anounced that opening pitch would be 10:55, the few who had remain were also told that they could sit in any free seat available, so those in the upper deck rushed down to the seats behind the dugouts and home plate. The ground crew came on and made the surface playable and opening pitch was right on 10:55 pm, some 3 hours 20 minutes late…

The game was a pretty speedy one, I guess even the players didn’t want to hang about at that time of night. J.D. Drew hit a two run homer in the third as the Braves cruised to a 6-1 victory in a game that ran until 1:25 am. During the game we had a few close calls with foul balls off Julio Franco’s bat, three or four came extremely close to us only to hit off the nearby scoreboard or drop down into the seats below…

Anyway, here is a few of the 150 odd pictures we took of the game

Quite a few huh? Also… A Turner Field panorama (this time at night…)

Atlanta Time Machine. A comparison of old and new Atlanta… [via]

I got a message that a Firefox update was available when I started it up this morning… So I check to see what’s up and it’s a new version of Firefox… Firefox 0.9.1, which supposedly fixes the bugs from the old 0.9 version. And after the mistake of not uninstalling 0.8 when updating to 0.9, I uninstalled it… Better safe than sorry.

So now 0.9.1 is installed, with the new variation on the winstripe theme, but the new update notification is still in the bottom corner, just a bit distracting… You’d think that version 0.9.1 would be able to see that it’s the newest version there is and not display this.

Iranian woman “gives birth to a frog”. Ewwwwwww… Ewwwww… Ewwwww…

Mobile phones can rot your balls. I want to be the guy who writes that safety label…

I’m a street bum, says broke Mike Tyson. How the once mighty have fallen… “I ain’t the same person I was when I bit that guy’s ear off.”

Kottke gets a facelift. 2 Years in the making, not bad at first glance…

Before I begin, I’ll refresh your memory about the controversy surrounding the latest documentary by Michael Moore… “Fahrenheit 9/11“… Basically Miramax were producing it, but parent company Disney didnt want them to release it, so it was sold off to Lions Gate by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, same as what they did with Kevin Smith’s “Dogma” in late 1999, it went on to recieve top plaudits at the Cannes Film Festival in May. This brings us up to this weekend where it opened in the States and, supposedly, raked in $8m in ticket sales on it’s opening day, easily beating the previous record, Moore’s “Bowling For Columbine“.

Now be warned, this is your typical Michael Moore film, don’t be expecting an unbiased view on world events, the man does not like George W. Bush and everything he stands for… That aside it’s actually quite an enjoyable film, though I liked “Bowling For Columbine” and his books “Stupid White Men …and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!” and “Dude, Where’s My Country?“, both recommended to me by my dad…

It explores everything he wrote in “Dude, Where’s My Country?” which I expected, that being the stealing of the presidential election, his family links to the Saudi Royal Family and the Bin Laden family, his links to Haliburton and Enron, the pointlessness of the war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq… You know the deal surely.

I would advise most everybody go see it, it’s the first film I’ve been to see that got a standing ovation at the end (I kid you not) and that’s the highest recommendation you can get, not just from me, but a theater full of paying patrons in Marietta, GA. who stood up at 9:30 pm on Sunday 27th June and gave this film a worthy round of applause…

Yes, I admit it, ever since I brought in the linklog I’ve been lazy about posting here… But I never realised how much crap I do post…

For instance, in the last two weeks, no fewer than 7 out of 13 posts (9 since the start of June) have been in the Internet and Technology category. Thats over half! And with the addition of the linklog, most of them could have been bundled in there. I’m begining to wonder if it’s a gift or a curse…

I suppose it’s hard to keep up to date with things when the most exciting part of my week was recieving a batch of business cards, my first business card no less. Though it was prety pointless as I have no one to give them to and the reason they were ordered was because everyone went to the CFUN 04 conference, leaving me to keep things afloat here (and look after Spike and the cats)… No matter as there is always Macromedia Max in New Orleans (ahhh… Nawlins) at the start of November.

Here’s a little preview of what the Star Wars Trilogy DVD’s will look like. I’m glad they used the original art on the discs, though the bonus materials one looks a bit dodgy to say the least.

France 0-1 Greece. Adieu Les Bleues!

More reasons to avoid using Internet Explorer. To avoid this I refer you to a post from 15th June.

David Beckham Penalty Shootout. Try to emulate Beckham’s penalty prowess (if you can)

The NBA Draft threw up a few surprises. None bigger than Josh Childress’ ‘fro, Ben Wallace look out!