Monthly Archives: June 2002

SoccerPhone Now Says Day of Week

By | June 29, 2002

I finally fixed the problem I caused at some point in the past. For some time now, SoccerPhone got an error when it couldn’t retrieve the scores from the MLS website. The problem was that I needed to set a variable at the VXML Document level scope, not at a block level scope. I didn’t… Read More »

SoccerPhone Bug Fix For When MLS Website Unavailable

By | June 29, 2002

This wasn’t such a big deal at the beginning of the season when virtually every game was played on a Saturday. However, recent weeks have included a lot of Wednesday games, and there have also been some Sunday games. So, to make it easier for you, my valued non-paying patron, to keep track of when… Read More »

SoccerPhone Briefly Broken Due to TellMe Change

By | June 23, 2002

Fortunately, I tried out “SoccerPhone” before Saturday’s games, as TellMe made a change in the last day or two that broke SoccerPhone. The TellMe VXML interpreter appears to have been changed to more strictly enforce the schema on retrieved XML files used with the VoiceXML <data> element. I posted the details on the tellme.sharing.vxml newsgroup… Read More »

Bad Officiating Gifts South Korea Another Win

By | June 22, 2002

Spain throughly dominated South Korea and they put in two goals that were called back. The second goal that was called back was an embarrassingly bad call by the linesman. As you would think he would know by now, the ball has to completely cross the end line before being called out. In this case,… Read More »

US Thrashes Mexico 2-0 in World Cup Second Round

By | June 17, 2002

Although this is the fifth time the US has beaten Mexico in their last six matches (the US outscored Mexico 10-1 in these six games), this was a stunning, amazing upset. Mexico had been playing their very best and the US had come off a very weak performance against Poland. The US played a much… Read More »

BBC gets at least 75% of the story correct

By | June 5, 2002

BBC: “The United States served up one of the World Cup’s great upsets, as they out-fought Group D favourites Portugal to record a superb victory in Suwon.” I can’t believe how many mistakes are in this BBC report. Basic things like saying the cross on the third goal was from Stewart when it was from… Read More »

US Defeats Portugal 3-2 in World Cup Group Play

By | June 5, 2002

I had a dream earlier this week that the US scored three goals against Portugal. But in the first 37 minutes? Not even my dream was that good. Of course, waking up for a 2 am Pacific time start made me wonder if I really were awake. Any sleepiness was thrown off quickly, though, when… Read More »