I’m stunned, utterly stunned… Was it not a mere 3 months ago France were penalty kicks away from winning the World Cup? Now Scotland have put them to the sword (so to speak) and we’re riding high in the European Championship qualifying group b with 9 points from 3 games… Bring on the Ukraine on Wednesday I say.
But let’s not get too carried away here… After all, beating France is nothing new, but during the Berti Vogts years, that muddy March night at Hampden must have seemed like a long time ago… So yeah, a nice win over Ukraine on Wednesday and the Tartan Army can pretty much look at booking hotels in Switzerland and Austria for June 2008, never mind that we have to play France again (in France) and world champions Italy twice… We almost beat Italy last time we played them, next time should be easy.
Yes, optimism reigns supreme here.
American Dad vs. Family Guy Kung Fu. The Smith’s and the Griffin’s battle it out in mortal kombat… Freakin’ sweet!
Google to buy YouTube for $1.6 billion? $1.6 billion for YouTube? Has the world gone mad? If it does prove to be true, I guess Mark Cuban has found his “morons.”
I never really noticed it, cause, well, I never really had a reason to watch the old Outdoor Life Network, but recently it changed it’s name to Versus, and my first impression was “damn, that’s a silly name.” That is until I figured it out last night while watching bits of the Buffalo Sabres win over the Carolina Hurricanes while waiting for Lost…
Now I think it’s the most awesome idea ever, I mean, we live in a world where people nitpick everything, like the big banners ABC/ESPN used during this years World Cup (a few examples) but this banner idea is pretty damn cool…
Basically it reads as BUFFALO VS. CAROLINA, a natural way to read it… Genius!
Our desktop PC died yesterday, and as it’s the PC I use 100% of the time (Robyn has her wee laptop) I made it my duty to make it work…
But alas I failed as the motherboard and processor had let slip the mortal coil, so in between going to the Braves final game of 2006 we went to CompUSA and eventually Best Buy where we picked up an open box Compaq (I know, I know) and cannibalised the old Compaq to make Super Compaq™… For a little over $500 we now have a PC that prolly retails for over $1,000, and after the Vista incident of a few months ago, it now takes me less than a day (with sleep in between) to rid the PC of all the crap it comes preloaded with and install all the good stuff I need as well as running patches, hotfixes and updates along the way. So yeah, we’ve basically doubled the spec of the old machine for half the price Robyn paid for it a little over 2 years ago. I remember when computers were hellishly expensive, my first PC was a Pentium II 266Mhz, with 64mb of RAM and a 6GB hard drive, that cost me £1,000 give or take… The new Super Compaq™ is an Athlon 64 2.41Ghz, with 2GB of RAM and (adding all the hard drives together) around 650GB in hard drive space. You think it’ll run Photoshop?
Plus it came with Windows Media Center Edition preloaded (we all know my struggles with that before) and it works with my TV card, sweet…
Also, as I mentioned Vista, the new RC1 DVD plopped in our mailbox today, I think I’ll load it onto Robyn’s old laptop for testing purposes, she doesn’t use it as she has her aforementioned wee laptop.
Also, speaking of wee (kinda sorta), our local Target already has an empty isle dedicated to the upcoming Nintendo Wii, I’m interested to see how the nunchuck controllers work, more so in a shopping environment.
Sitting, waiting on an AC technician to repair our not so cold AC is becoming a bit of a joke, especially when I’ve done this two times before… To cut a long story shirt, our AC unit isn’t running to it’s full capacity, it does chill, but not as chilly as it once was, luckily Atlanta has been cooling down recently so it’s not been as big a deal as it might have been.
So now I’m waiting for a third time, cause I have nothing better to do, I just hope it gets fixed properly this time.