www.ajc.com/sports/what-does-atlantas-soccer-579836.html

Interesting article about Atlanta and its future vis-a-vis soccer in the U.S.. Including what it might take to get its own MLS team and its potential as a hosting ground for the 2022 World Cup. I don't agree with everything the author says about needs vs wants, and some of his statements ( Read more... )

black_king found this article about one of the leading training youth training programs in the Netherlands. A little long, but a very interesting look at the differences in the way the Dutch approach sports training (compared to the U.S.).

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/magazine/06Soccer-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=general&src=me

So this is really a response to a comment chapel_of_words  made in my last post. He asked "where to from here for the casual viewer"? I thought it was a good question, but none of my responses were very short, so i broke it out in its own post. It calls to my mind that there is another tier of soccer viewer that I wasn't really thinking about: Someone that doesn' ( Read more... )

So I feel like I should really sum up my thoughts at this point. I still can't really believe it's been five week already. My body is still trying to get me up at dawn for the first game of the day ( Read more... )

So a few of you commented about my last post (re: would insurance cover lost paid-for-data such as non-redownable mp3s or e-books). One idea I promised myself to re-examine was that of cloud-storage for the purposes of backing up critical data.

Two of the options I've looked at so far:

Ubuntu One:  ( Read more... )

So I was updating my renter's insurance info' and as a part of that was doing some basic inventory on the major items in my home. Today, as I was thinking about it, I started wondering about insurance and data value. My personal data values, while priceless to me, are worthless to the world. I'm thinking more in terms of purchased, non-physical ( Read more... )

So, one thing that has surprised me more than almost anything else in this World Cup is how many people I knew that have mentioned that they've enjoyed or tried to enjoy what they've seen of the games, but were confused by some aspects of the game. More importantly, parts of the game that I've grown so accustomed to that it never occurred to me it ( Read more... )

Seriously? "Speak friend an enter"? That's putting "Enter password to login" and having the password be "password". The dwarves deserved to get pwnzed

Screw 'cardio-kick boxing'. To hell with atkins. Cancel your gym membership.

This is the REAL deal.

Zombie Fit

Wow ( Read more... )