Mitch Albom apologizing for saying a couple former MSU players were at a Final Four game; is this really a story worthy of ‘national interest’ or even worthy of an apology? Not like people outside of East Lansing, MI care…or why does it matter anyway?
Confused…
Studying for a certification test, so don’t expect much here…which is why I’m delving into bash.org again…
Warning: see warning from yesterday about that link…
Otherwise, here you go…
<Moonpie> one time, in middle school, some people let some pigs onto the campus. They painted on the pigs "1", "2", and "4". The faculty spent weeks looking for the third one.
an IRC conversation, of course:
<sonium> someone speak python here? <lucky> HHHHHSSSSSHSSS <lucky> SSSSS <sonium> the programming language
Warning for the uninitiated: bash.org can be extremely graphic in parts, so only enter at your own risk!
I know I haven’t written much about Illinois’ run this season, mainly due to wraught nerves; but as it came to conclusion last nite, I felt I had to write something. It was probably the best season for Illini sports ever, as not one expectation was not met. We were ranked #5 coming into the season, and we ended up #1 most of the season, playing in the Final. Who can fault that? And the way they played all year, never giving in, pulling through consistently, was just awesome.
Let’s be honest, we had a big hole in the team, our inside play. Not to knock Roger and James and Jack, but we just don’t have that one wide-body, 6’10” that just pounds people inside. It’s more finesse for us if it happens inside. And against UNC this becomes a huge problem.
BTW, slightly off-topic, don’t forget this team was built with the thought of having Charlie Villanueva as well, but when Self-ish ran to Kansas, Charlie balked and ended up at UConn…just thought of that the other day; by no means would I have wanted to have Self-ish back or give him credit for this season…Bruce did all the work with these guys, otherwise we would have been 1-and-done like the Jayhawks who had just as much talent….
But this year will be awesome for recruiting, now and down the road; our coach is rock-solid and one of the best in the country, and hopefully will be here for years to come…as long as Illini Nation is patient (yes, next year will be rebuilding), he and we will be back and back for good. I already hear a few so-called faithful complaining, but I don’t know what you can complain about. 37-2, 2:30 from a championship with a tie score against an NBA-caliber team, what the hell do you want? For years mediocrity ruled, then we became a stepping stone for coaches to go elsewhere, it’s no wonder we’ve only been to the Final Four twice in my lifetime. You have to build a program and grow it into a powerhouse. This year we almost struck gold with a once-in-a-lifetime team. Imagine what Bruce can do now by recruiting his players himself, building his perfect team!
It amazes me some of the crap that has happened with some Illini fans in the past and their emails to the coach, thinking winning is some ‘right’ that we’re entitled to. Makes me laugh…it’s sports, go out and support them like the strong majority of the Illini Nation! What this team showed is it’s more about competing than winning, things Illinois had always been on the wrong side of…
current snapshot of traffic conditions in south Minneapolis
UPDATED: Ha ha ha! Little did I notice that it really does look like an infinity sign. I was just commenting on the amount of time you could assume it would take to get home with a map like that….
The wife just ‘phoned’ this one in…
Thought this might come in handy, I’ve been searching alot for text in .php files the past few days.
Ever notice Windows Search is a little finicky? Or I should say ‘set in its ways’? It has a pre-defined list of file types it looks at when you do a search, and if your file type is not on the list, tough luck.
Luckily, this is editable via the registry. Here is a page talking about a couple of ways of adding file types. NOTE: rebooting was not necessary on my WinXP machine…
Well, well, well, not again, you say??? Yes, I’ve changed blog software yet again! I cannot be stopped!
Actually, I’ve been looking at doing this for just a little while; dasBlog was nice, but mainly the fact that it wasn’t easily upgradeable was a major pain. For instance, remember all those posts I said I was migrating? Well, I could never figure out how to edit the XML files of dasBlog to correctly update the timestamps. Plus upgrading to a new version involved running a conversion applicaton on your log (XML) files; somewhat painful.
So here I am, now trying out WordPress…I really like it so far, the editing/admin interface is really clean, slick and fast (as well as the main site, I hope you agree). There are a ton of themes available on their wiki as well…so hopefully I’ll settle here for awhile. Sorry for any broken bookmarks, RSS links, etc. You’ll notice it’s written in PHP so there was nothing I could do!
Enjoy! I’ll be back-posting the old entries today…
As you pry know, these tech/geek posts will happen alot on this site; not only am I a hip 30-something year old, but also a successful computer consultant during the day…(can’t wait til the wife reads that one)…
Anyway, created a couple Proxomitron filters today to remove the sponsored results and news sections from Yahoo!’s search results page(s). They just get in the way…
Name = "Yahoo! Search News Results"
Active = TRUE
URL = "search.yahoo.com"
Limit = 2064
Match = "<div id=yschiy>*</div>"
Name = "Yahoo! Search Sponsor Results"
Active = TRUE
URL = "search.yahoo.com"
Limit = 6024
Match = "<div class=yschspns>*<div class=yschhd>*</div>*</div>"
Let me know of a better approach if you have one…
blog of hair 