I finally got around to reading Fever Pitch during the World Cup, finishing it up just last week. Thanks to my wife’s copy of The Omnibus, I have continued on with High Fidelity and will later read About a Boy. The Omnibus is published by Indigo in Great Britain. We luckily found a copy at… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
The US clearly outplayed the Germans, but what matters in the end is who scores the most goals. Germany finished one of a small number of chances and the US could not finish any of a greater number of chances. Well, assuming that you don’t consider Torsten Frings standing on the German goal line with… Read More »
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 »
Cup Kicks Avaya Into High Gear They went in as underdogs but have parlayed growing experience and meticulous preparation into early success at this year’s FIFA World Cup soccer tournament in South Korea and Japan. And they’ve never scored a goal. Avaya Inc., the Lucent Technologies Inc. spinoff, built the massive IP-based converged voice and… Read More »
Mozilla finally turns 1.0. The browser software, four years in the making in an open-source project, arrives on the Web. Netscape says developers wanted to be sure it “would indeed be ready for prime time.” [CNET News.com] Throw off your IE chains. Well, at least most of the time. A few sites don’t work too… Read More »
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 »