TuS Freiberg 1-5 FC Marbach II

The last match before the winter break was not something to remember. We were superior most of the match and went ahead 0-1 through a direct free kick. Then the inevitable happened: our defenders missed a ball and they came right back at us for the 1-1 equalizer. We didn’t play nervous though and were able to come right back at the with 1-2 before the half-time break. After the break we were the more focussed team once again and were able to score another 3 goals to make it 1-5. Bad news though: as one of the Freiberg’s player fell on one of our defenders he was knocked out cold with a skull contusion.

Scoreboard:
Fabian Kirschner, 2 Goals, 1 Assist
Stefan Holter, 1 Goal
Timo Striegel, 2 Goals

After 13 matches we’re in second place and everything is looking good for the rest of the season (play will resume on March 12th 2006):

  1. FV Oberstenfeld, 30 points
  2. FC Marbach II, 30 points
  3. TSV Neckargroeningen, 28points

Roundup 25.11.2005

Busy times, so not many posts in recent days. I’m the the middle of building up my domain-portfolio and I picked up a dedicated server (as mentioned in an earlier post) along the way, which was giving me all sorts of problems. The most urgent problem was the “small amount” of bandwidth included (“only” 200 GB) which were gone pretty quickly. So I had a decision to make: either stick with this server and pay additional fees for the traffic over the limit (probably each and every month) or switch to a bigger server with more bandwith included. I decided to go with the latter and ordered the following beast last week:

  • Opteron 146 (2.0 GHz, 64bit, 1000 FSB, 1MB Cache)
  • 1GB Ram
  • 2x 160GB HDD
  • Emergency remote console
  • Unlimited bandwidth (or should I say unmetered as there truely is no such thing as an unlimited connection)

Then I was stuck with the next problem: after waiting for a week and seeing the old server hit way over the bandwidth limit I contacted support about the status of the server. Sure enough they are backloged on this particular server and it could be another two weeks until the new server arrived. Groovy, not! So I told support that I was totally NOT satisfied with this and they offered me an interim server (without charge) and I accepted. So now some of the more resource consuming sites (Proxytastic, etc) are located on the interim server (AMD Athlon 64 3200+).

As for new sites:
After the success of Proxytastic.com I decided to add two more similiar sites to the network:

  1. FreeWebProxy.org using the PHProxy script
  2. TheCGIProxy.com using the CGI Proxy script

Fantasy footie:
Well, it seems that I’m slowly and steadily catching up with Mr. Price’s SPAM AND CHEESE XI squad…go INVINCIBLES RELOADED!

Mr. Price’s score: 31 pts (411 total)
Ingoal’s score: 35 pts (392 total)

Pandora.com is free

Pandora.com created by the Music Genome Project is a really amazing site. You can listen to music and discover new music you never heard of before in the process. How does it work? Short summary: you enter a song or artist you like and the system will generate a playlist with songs that are similiar based on different aspects of the songs. If you don’t like a song in the playlist you can either skip it or tell the system about it…it’s adaptive. Groovy stuff…for now I’m on the free account…maybe I’ll switch to the subscription mode in the future…I like to test stuff out first though…so the free mode should be fine for now.

Hat tip: Sara

Training match against our youth team

So, we didn’t train in our usual way today, instead we played a training match against our youth team (“A Jugend”). I wasn’t in the starting formation so some of my teammates and I played a little 3 on 3 match on another pitch until it was time for us to get some action. My action started around the 40th minute of the 60minute match. To my surprise we were already trailing 0-4! I got off to a good start and had some early touches and when it counted most I was where a striker should be – in the middle of the action.

Salvador Garcia-Martinez tried his luck with a 18meter shot, but the goalie got his hands to it…the ball went straight away from goal – this is when I started my little sprint to the ball to find myself alone infront of goal…and I just shot the ball with my right foot and it went sailing into the top right corner :-) FCM II 1-4 Youth team. Now we were back in the match and goals by Timo “Eugen” Striegel and Salvador Garcia-Martinez put us within reach at 3-4, but then the match ended. So we lost, but it was a good match and I had a good time :mrgreen:

FC Marbach II 2-0 VfB Neckarrems II

Nice…after going ahead 1-0 early on with a wonderful free-kick by Fabian Kirschner (Beckham style over the defenders right in the left top corner) it was a tough match and Neckarrems had some decent chances to level things up at one a piece. Fortunately the didn’t use their chances and we were able to get the 2-o shortly before full time – Harald Ilg went one on one with the keeper and kept his cool to secure our victory.

So we stay in second place for now with 20 points, although both Neckargroeningen (1st, 21 points) and Oberstenfeld (3rd, 18 points) have one match more left to play…

Roundup…

Thursday:

  • Sox time again! After the Red Sox last year, the White Sox did it this year. They won the World Series 4-0 over the Houston Astros to win their first World Series in 88 years! Congrats!
  • I visited the Systems World in Munich. Quite interesting especially some digital office solutions (ELO, etc). On another note: I saw the new Audi Q7 there. Oooh this one looks sweet, but is “sligthly” out of my price range…
  • No Poker for the second day in a row…after being on the road for most of the day I just didn’t feel like playing…

Friday:

  • After getting some more sleep than on thursday I used the afternoon to play some tournaments again. I declare Q-Q to be my downfall…from now on I’m going to lay it down preflop as this is the hand that has kicked me out of a tournament three times now :-(
  • In the evening I went to footie training (the first week I’ve been able to train twice in quite a while), which was fun as we did less running and more playing.

Finally…

…not only did I make the final table this time, but I made some money (nothing major), but it feels good to make some sort of progress (after not reaching the money in all the prior tournaments):

PokerStars Tournament #14174252, No Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $1.00/$0.20
45 players
Total Prize Pool: $45.00
Tournament started – 2005/10/23 – 18:24:21 (ET)

Dear Ingoal,

You finished the tournament in 5th place.
A $4.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

…and again:

PokerStars Tournament #14178580, No Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $1.00/$0.20
45 players
Total Prize Pool: $45.00
Tournament started – 2005/10/23 – 20:05:47 (ET)

Dear Ingoal,

You finished the tournament in 5th place.
A $4.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

FC Marbach II 0-3 TSV Neckargroeningen

The first bump in the road, so to speak. After being undefeated in the first 6 matches, we were finally defeated today. It seemed that our opponents were not really much better than we were, but they were motivated and wanted to win badly – and who can blame them, they were almost secured as champions last season before failing to claim the championship due to a draw in the last match of the season.

We’re still on top of the table (16points), but both Oberstenfeld (15 points) and Neckargroeningen (15 points and one game less played) are on our heels…

VfB Tamm 4-7 FC Marbach II

:lol:

What a match, after being down 1-0 and 2-1 we were able to level things up at two a piece, which was the result at halftime. After the break we stormed out to a 2-3, 2-4, 2-5, 2-6, 2-7 lead!!!

Then we let the game slip a little once again and they got two goals back 3-7 and 4-7 which is the final result. The crowd really got it’s money’s worth today and we retain first place :-)

Update…

Alrighty, I’m back.

Uni stuff:

  • “Marathon sessions” payed off, our uni document was ready just in time to goto the copy shop to be binded as a small book; handed in on time :tup:
  • Exams are over, for now. Yesterday was the big day: Wissensverarbeitung (knowledge engineering) + Verteilte Systeme (Distributed Systems). Did go quite well, at least in knowledge engineering, don’t really know about Distributed Systems, but hey…I’ll find out in some weeks…glad that it’s over ;-)

Fantasy footie:

Not a particularly good week again, but I’m still keeping touch to the top…

  • Mr. Price’s score this week: 46 points (270 points total) – currently in 2nd place
  • Ingoal’s score this week: 32 points (249 points total) – currently in 6th place

FC Marbach II:
I didn’t attend the match vs Hochdorf on sunday due to my exam preparation, but I know the result: FC Marbach II 4-1 SGV Hochdorf :-)

Health:
I picked up a nasty cold sometime last week, so it was hard to concentrate on the exam preparation, the exam itself and all the other tasks. Now that this is all behind me, I’m taking some time off to really get better and it’s paying off already – after the first decent night’s sleep in a while I’m feeling better already, today. God bless medicine :-)

Politics:
It seems that weeks after our general elections the big parties are finally converging into a settlement…maybe we’ll have a new chancellor sooner than we all thought. I’m really curious whether it’s going to be Angela Merkel (CDU) or Gerhard Schroeder (SPD – current chancellor) or a third person (!).