Well, there were no games scheduled for week 3, due to international competition, so no score to report from there. Normal play resumed in week 4 and I didn’t do all that well. Keep in mind though that it’s a long season and there are still many many games to be played and trades to be made ;)
Ingoal: 22 points, 107 total
Mr. Price: 45 points, 101 total
After a long search for an internship I finally found a fitting one which began today.
The tasks that are ahead of me appear to be challenging, but after a little familiarisation phase I should be able to get them done. Wish me luck.
So, as soon as I’m finished with this one (end of the year), I’ll be able to start my diploma thesis which will mark the end of my university journey…finally…(no need to shout yet, after all it’s going to be almost another year before all is said and then, but it’s still a good feeling to be on the “home stretch”.. :-) )
…and I’m with Mr. Price again in our SuperLeague called “THE COLLECTIVE ALL-STARS“.
Weeks 1 and 2 are already down and so far my Crunchtime CF is off to a good start.
Week 1:
Ingoal, 47 points
Mr. Price, 24 points
Week 2:
Ingoal, 38 points
Mr. Price, 32 points
After the recent lack of updates around here, I thought it was time to bring this blog back to life. I started off by getting a new template, after all the last one has been online for ages now – maybe some tweaks here and there will follow, but I already like the template how it is atm.
So, why so little updates in the last few months? Mostly because I didn’t have much to blog about around here. Now things are getting back to normal, so there should be more updates again as…
That said, it’s time to wrap up this post with a quick request: if you come across any problems with the new layout (looks good to me in Firefox, Opera and IE), feel free to contact me or just comment on this post..
So, Ingoal.info has finally moved servers. Everything should be running smoothly again, if you encounter any errors, feel free to comment on this post.
Man of the match…Bastian “Schweini” Schweinsteiger…
We can all be proud of our team, nuff said!
The dream of yet another World Cup final was so close and yet so far tonight. After holding our own for 119 minutes, Italy finally scored their goal to go up 0:1 and scored the second one minutes after that. So final result Germany 0:2 Italy, we all hoped to get to the penalty kicks, but it wasn’t to be. A deserved victory after two kicks hitting the bar and the crossbar and our chances: 0.
Really sad that our series had to end today instead of the other one (we didn’t lose a match in Dortmund prior to this match and we didn’t win a match against Italy in the WC yet)…nontheless it was fascinating to see all the people still cheering for our national team and keeping their head up – even in defeat. So it’ll be Stuttgart on saturday (against either France or Portugal) instead of sunday in Berlin…
Side note: I’ll try to put up another post with some pics about “my world cup” so far in the next few days…
Well, we’ve got the Fifa World Cup over here in Germany and everyone sure is excited. Footie is everywhere and you almost can’t escape – not that I wanted to anyway ;)
I was actually in the middle of it last friday. I was in the stadium watching the match Netherlands vs Ivory Coast. What a great match and I can’t even begin to explain the spirit in and around the stadium, unbelievable. Here are some photos taken by my (not so high resolution) mobile phone cam, showing me (in the Eat, Sleep, Code SitePoint Shirt), the stadium and the Premiere broadcasting box which was right there a couple of meters away from us (Premiere is the only PayPerView channel over here in Germany, their expert in the box was Christoph Daum, who is one of our better known coaches – he almost became our national coach a few years back…): 
In related footie notes: After the lost championship, some of us played footie again for the first time. It was supposed to be a fun “hobby tourney”, but it turned out to be a ankle-busting slugfest…so not much joy, but at least a little time with the ball and some time in the sun with mates…could have been worse ;)
Apart from the whole World Cup thing there are the NBA Finals, which I follow closely – after all Dirk Nowitzki and his Dallas Mavericks are in it. Too bad that they slipped in the third game and failed to take that game down. Instead of a 3-0 lead going into game 4, they were only ahead 2-1 and now the Heat have built up there momentum pretty good. Last night they pulled out yet another tight tight win in overtime to take the series lead 3-2. Now it’s up to Dallas to protect their homecourt to take it down in 7. Goooooooooooo Mavs!
I don’t even know how to start this post, I’m so excited. It’s after 3am and I’m still awake. Why? The NBA Finals are about to start with Game 1 from Dallas, featuring the Dallas Mavericks and the Miami Heat. Why am I that excited? Two words: Dirk Nowitzki
The second time a german player has made it to the NBA Finals – if you don’t remember, Detlef Schrempf was in the Finals with the Sonics, but Michael Jordan’s Bulls denied their quest for the championship. This time it’s a different thing though. Dirk is the leader of the Mavericks and they got a real shot at the title. Let’s see if they can play their game and get Shaq, Wade and the rest off their game.
Jam packed? Yup, as the FIFA Football World Cup 2006 starts tonight – right here in Germany. We’re opening the Footie WC (or Soccer WC for the Americans) against Costa Rica. I’m really looking forward to the whole Cup, not only because it’s here in Germany, but because the Fifa World Cup is one of the most important cups there is, period. What adds to it, is that it is indeed in Germany and I was lucky enough to get some tickets – not for a germany game, but Netherlands vs. Ivory Coast should be a great match too :-)
Now I’m out of here…the Mavs starting lineup is presented now…goooooooo Dirk!
Update: Yes! Mavs 90-80 Heat! Not a particular good game, but tension right down to the wire. Not a good game by Dirk, but Jason Terry took over and that was enough to wrestle down the Heat. So the Mavs take the series lead 1-0, let’s see what sunday’s game two will bring…
What a frustrating day. We were, once again, on the verge of winning the championship – an amazing feat considering the fact that we just came into this higher class last year. We played and won our last game on thursday, so no game for us today, but the other team in contention (FV Oberstenfeld) played today. They were down 1-0, pulled level, were down 2-1, pulled level, went ahead 3-2…then Neckarrems pulled level to 3 a piece again, which is the result: 3-3. What does that mean for us? We lost the championship!!! Both them and us won 17 matches, drew 5 matches and lost twice…we even score the same amount of goals (74), but they conceded three less (21 to our 24), so they win the championship….
Side note: if and only if we hadn’t played 2-2 against the bottom team two weeks ago or if we had won with two (we won our match 6-1 on thursday, but the ref only noted a 5-1 win for us)/three more goals on thursday we would have been the champions :-(
Now we will have to play relegation matches again….the first match will be on friday against a fellow second placed Kreisliga B team. The second match will be against the next to last from Kreisliga A, but only if we win the first match…if not, it’ll be a lost season…damn, footie can be cruel sometimes…
Wow…so it’s finally here…the new MacBook (the laptop formerly known as iBook ;-) ). Available in the classic white and now, new, in black too. Cool stuff there. I’m so getting one soonish!!!
Specs of the three models:
Now I don’t get the difference in price between the white and black top-model. 200$/€ more for a 80GB HDD along with another color? Seems a little strange to me?!
Well, it’s been a while since I last posted. It’s been a busy time, sort off…I finished my final uni exams (not all results are out yet, but the once I already know are brilliant)…now I’m in the hunt for a internship and then it’s diploma thesis time :-)
Fantasy footie: woohoo! What a comeback. I managed to surpass Mr. Price on the last day to win our little bet, so I’m freerolling into the new season, w00t!
|
Pos |
 |
Manager |
Team |
Week |
Total |
League |
|
1 |
 |
Mr C Howard |
CHATEAU NERF DE PAPE |
11 |
1558 |
52643 |
|
2 |
 |
Mr R Stillwell |
CHICA-BENA LIB FRONT |
10 |
1495 |
89289 |
|
3 |
 |
Mr M Dunlop |
THATCHAM REDSOX |
26 |
1494 |
89930 |
|
4 |
 |
Mr D Ankers |
FULLSPEEDALONE |
54 |
1416 |
137744 |
|
5 |
 |
Miss S Bissell |
PEGS UNITED |
20 |
1409 |
141885 |
|
6 |
 |
Mr T Legg |
LEGG’S ELEVEN |
23 |
1400 |
146985 |
|
7 |
 |
Mr S Smith |
RAINY THURSDAY PM |
9 |
1319 |
188505 |
|
8 |
 |
Mr S Jones |
STUBEAR FC |
45 |
1306 |
194176 |
|
9 |
 |
Mr I Hildebrandt |
INVINCIBLES RELOADED |
45 |
1247 |
216384 |
|
10 |
* |
Mr J Price |
SPAM AND CHEESE XI |
37 |
1241 |
218313 |
|
11 |
 |
Mr M Crosby |
OLDHAM ARTHRITICS |
16 |
1208 |
228227 |
|
12 |
 |
Mr R Oswald |
NEXT TO LAST |
39 |
1086 |
251633 |
Woohoo! 50 days to go until the start of the Fifa World Cup 2006 and today my tickets arrived :-)
So, it’s my birthday today…yippi….28…man I feel old, NOT ;-)
I’m in the process of writing the last exams of my uni career. In total I’m going through 4 exams. Three of them are for the extension block which consists of 8 weekly hours worth of courses. I had the first one (4h) on March 3 and it went really well, as far as I can tell.
Today was the second exam: the deepening line (Application Systems, …)…this one was a 45 minute oral exam…and it didn’t go all that well, at least not as planned. I revised for roughly 2.5 weeks for this one and tried to get a grasp of ALL the stuff that was distributed along well over 1k sheets…I guess I was prepared for “top level” or overall/comprehension questions, but most of the questions resolved around 2-3 topics and where aimed at
…and I just couldn’t get into the groove and tbh in the end I was happy that I even passed…final result: 4.0 (1.0= best, 4.0= pass, 5.0 = failed). My first 4.0 in the main study period :-(
On the bright side I know that it’s over, I passed, which means two down, two to go…although it bugs me that this one put a dent in my grade average (prior to this oral exam: 1.84, after it: 2.02)…ah well, now it’s time to chill a little and then hit the books hard again for the upcoming exams (extension courses “Software ergonomics” – April 7th and “peripheral devices” – April 5th)…two good grades in these exams will lift my grade average again and I can finally “drop the pen” on April 7th…the only things left to do then are: