Ingoal’s score: 40 pts (440 points total)
Mr. Price’s score: 45 pts (568 points total)
Slowly but steady losing ground every week. Time for some tranfers (3!). Maybe that’ll help…
Week 14
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Thunderbird 1.0 released
Woohoo! The big 1.0! Get it now!
I just did, download was fast as ever, the “update” from 0.9 worked like a charm and everything is looking good (especially the new icons).
I guess it’s time that you Reclaim Your Inbox, too! ;-)
Online bookmarks
online-bookmarks is a really nice web application using php and MySQL to implement an online system for bookmarks. Alright, you can always save (or export) your bookmark list from your browser and upload it to a web-location, but that’s not really elegant nor efficient. So this really comes in handy. You can import and export bookmarks (I just tested the import with my bookmarks of my Firefox 1.0 – which worked like a charm) and best of all: manage them online (add, delete, move, etc)!
All you need is php and a MySQL-db and you’re set. Really nice! It took me less than two minutes to have it up and running. Thanks to Ben for finding this one! You can read his thoughts about it here.
Party hard…
Oh my, what a weekend:
- We had our little christmas dinner on friday (FC Marbach 2nd team). So we all enjoyed ourselves with some nice food and a lot of drinking. Managed to get home by 5 am.
- Went to the christmas market of Steinheim and had quite a few glasses of mulled wine, then we went to a house warming party and had some Blutwurz schnaps (around 50% alcohol). Managed to get home by 1am.
- Went to the christmas market of Marbach today and had some glasses of mulled wine. Managed to get home as early as 7pm.
So, it was a real busy and boozy weekend, hence the lack of updates. Now it’s really time to get some rest and start out fresh tomorrow – I guess I’m getting old ;-)
Jeremy’s auction (update)
Well, well. It was really interesting to watch the auction “live” (refresh, refresh, refresh). In the last hour the bid rose to over 3000$ taking a stop just before the end of the auction with the winning bid of 3350$. Nice one!
Too bad that my guess of 2600$ was a little bit too low, so no prices for me, but hey…at least Jeremy got a nice amount of cash!
Read more about it over at ensight…
Comment Spam Plugin (update)
After installing it on November 30th (see here), I’m really more than satisfied with Kitten’s Spaminator! It really deserves the name Spaminator as it has terminated my spam problems.
So far it has killed more than 30 spam comments without killing real comments (which it just leaves to the WordPress moderation)!
So: thumbs up! I recommend it to every WordPress user!
Week 13
Ingoal’s score: 20 pts (400 points total)
Mr. Price’s score: 28 pts (523 points total)
Slowly but steady the season is going down the drain, and Ingoal’s Invincibles don’t look all to invincible :-(
What … are you?
- 1. What Halo 2 character are you?
- 2. Which Movie Hero are you?
- 3. Which Movie Villain are you?
Man I love such quiz things :-)
Comment spam plugin
Thanks to Adam‘s suggestion if decided to give Kitten’s Spaminator a try. It’s said to be (one of) the most effective comment span plugins available for WordPress. Very well, let’s see what it can do. In order to see if it’s really working successfully I’ve deactivate the auto-shutoff on comments, so commenting on posts older than 30 days is possible again from now on.
Trackback URI
After seeing that recent trackback URIs were really hitting the right hand menu, it was time to update the style. Now they’re displayed a little smaller but won’t be messing with the design anymore.
Thanks to this tutorial it was done in under 30 seconds :-)
Jeremy’s guess the final price competition
Update: The prices that are up for grabs are starting to pour in hour by hour! The grand prize is now even higher and there are more prices for the runner up places! So, make sure you enter this competition!
Hehe, nice one. As you might have heard Jeremy is putting himself up for auction at ebay (see here). So after he’s posting day to day standings of the current price I suggested he could make it a “competition” (see here): whoever guesses the final price (or is nearest to it) will win something like a T-shirt or something.
Now he really did a great job and put up the Contest:
First price will be
- 1. A groovy t-shirt
- 2. 1 year free ROCKET3 hosting with HostRocket
- 3. Free domain name from DeveloperCube
- 4. A free guest blog appearance by world renowned blogger Jeremy Wright!
Two thumbs up, and the prices for second and third price aren’t bad either!
- 2nd place: 1 year free ROCKET2 hosting with HostRocket
- 3rd place: 1 year free ROCKET1 hosting with HostRocket
So…if you’re interested, get your behind over to ensight and enter your guess ;-)
Qute 3 released
Alright. Arvid Axelsson released the new verision of Qute on November 27th 2004. It carries the version tag 3 and is compatible with all versions of Firefox (up to 1.0) now. Groovy stuff.
If you’ve been waiting for it you can get it here or update it if you’ve already installed the old version (2.1.3): in Firefox: Tools -> Themes select the Qute theme and hit the update button.
Age of Mythology – Game 4
Well, only three players were playing tonight (Nico, Ralf and myself) due to the fact that Kai & Ines had other plans (congrats to your third anniversary ;-) ).
It was a tight game, although I started out with a big run to destroy almost all other armies right in the beginning. Nontheless in the middle of the game I was unable to build important stuff like the depository so it was hard to get to “the wonder” which carried the most winning-points on it.
In the end it really came down to it:
- most armies: 6 winning points
- most buildings: 9 winning points
- the wonder: 12 winning points
I already had 3 winning points from prior battles. After being unable to build “the wonder” I tried to sneak in a surprise action, which in my mind would bring my victory (once again). Ralf started the last move round with an attack on Nico and destroyed two buildings which put me up in this category as I built four buildings with a special card (status: Ingoal 5 buildings, Nico 3). So I thought I had the victory right in my pocket which is right when “desaster” struck on me. Nico played his last card, which should have been the final card of the game, and attacked one of my buildings. He destroyed it. The special ability of the card enabled him to make a fourth move though (normal is three moves per round). He attacked me once again and destroyed another building. In that situation both Nico and me had 3 buildings – there’s no tie-breaker so the winning-points on the most buildings card went down the drain.
As he had the biggest army he claimed the 6 winning points on it and “stole” victory with this brilliant last second move. Thumbs up to an interesting game.
Final Standings:
- 1. Nico – 6 points, Race played: egypts
- 2. Ingoal – 3 points, Race played: greeks
- 3. Ralf – 0 points, Race played: vikings
Overall winning standings:
- 1. Ingoal – 2 wins (4 games played)
- 2. Ines – 1 win (3 games played)
- 2. Nico – 1 win (3 games played)
- 4. Kai – 0 wins (3 games played)
- 5. Ralf – 0 wins (4 games played)
So you see I can live with tonight’s “defeat” ;-)
TSV Ludwigsburg II 1-1 FC Marbach II
Oh my :-(
Now that’s a bummer. After go ahead 1-0 in the first half we were unable to score the second goal despite having 2-3 100% chances :-(
Now we need to wait and see how the other teams played, but I guess it’s almost certain that our 4 point lead will be cut to 2…
Update: Or not…my oh my, everything went our way apart from our own game and performance, both Dersim Ludwigsburg and KSV Besigheim lost 3-1 today. So, we could have claimed the top with a win today…
Week 12
Oh man, this really hurts.
Hell froze over this wednesday! Yes you heard me ;-)
Believe it or not, but Mr. Price has really taken over the top of the league. I don’t know what it is this season, but it seems I’ve run out of luck as I can’t seem to get a foot on the ground. :-(
Mr. Price: 1st place, 50 pts – 495 pts total
Ingoal: 14th place, 18 pts – 380 pts total