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NI Eagles win Austin City League

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Yesterday, with a 5-0 victory over T2, the NI Eagles win the Austin Soccer City League Division 3 championship (after moving up from Division 5 and Division 4) with two games to spare. We will be in Division 2 next tournament.
Sadly, I have been out for most of this league due to a nasty foot injury. Oh well…. hopefully I can rejoin the team soon.
Congratulations to all of the team for an incredible season! (and to Boris our imposing goalkeeper for scoring his first goal with the team).

Film Critic

And I shall purchase it… again.

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It’s now (almost) official:


After years of waiting, hype and hope, the rumors can at last be laid to rest: the holy grail of DVD will finally be released this September. Yes, it is the original Star Wars trilogy: Episodes IV: A New Hope, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (which many regard as the best in the series) and Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

Yep… the original Star Wars trilogy will finally be out on DVD!
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away I owned it in Sony’s defunct Beta format, dubbed in Madrid Spanish… While I doubt this will beat hearing princess Leia call out for help in that sexy accent (“Aydame, Obi Wan Kenobi… eres mi nica esperanza…”), the better quality of the video should make up for it. After that I’ve had it in VHS, VHS Special Edition, VCD and DiVX.

Now, what do I do with those taiwanese Video CDs?

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New .mac sidebar!

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Integration nirvana! (well not really)…
I have created a small and simple php script to extract the links from my .mac account so I can put them in the sidebar.
I have called it:

dotMacToSidebar.php

And it works! I will make this available freely, as soon as I can clean up the code. But if you need it sooner, just post a comment and I will contact you.

Cool!

This was inspired by a comment from avid reader Moran Tzaban, who pointed out it was really hard to dig through the posts to find the photo albums. Thanks!

Reality Distortion Field

Macworld Keynote announcements thoughts

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Yesterday morning Steve Jobs delivered the Macworld 2004 Keynote (there’s only one Macworld a year now…).Here are my thoughts on each of the announcements:

Twentieth anniversary of the Mac
They posted the famous 1984 ad, except the girl is now wearing an iPod… funny. They released a poster. I bought it at eBay already. No new Twentieth Anniversary Mac????

Final Cut Express
This is just to see which Pro features have trickled down to the Express version. Yawn.

XServe G5
About time.

iLife ’04
iPhoto: Lots of nice things… but the only important feature: It’s not painfully slow. GREAT!
iMovie: It’s not slow…. GREAT! Unfortunately, I have no use for iMovie. I’ve used it before and enjoyed it to no end. iMovie was groundberaking and it’s getting better.
iDVD: Another awesome program, which I’ve never used, as I don’t make iMovies nor have a DVD burner.
GarageBand: This is another awesome program, might be as groundbreaking as iMovie. They could sell it standalone for $100 and it’d be still a bargain. But I don’t play any instruments. I have no use for it.

iPod mini
It’s truly awesome! but… still… expensive. Or at least not cheap enough to make me just order one. However, I understand that:
– Apple wants to make more money, not sell more units.
– Margins is where the money is at
– If they sold out all the other more expensive models last month, why make them cheaper?
On the other hand, as someone who paid dearly for an Optio S camera, I value the size on these portable things. It’s hard to say how much the smaller size is worth (as it’s hard to say how much the better GUI is worth when comparing Macs and PCs). It’s not like comparing Megabytes or Megahertz. But it’s valuable. We’ll see how they sell.

Bottom line: iPhoto is no longer free and it’s the only application, besides iTunes (which is still free) that I use on a regular basis. But… can I justify paying $50 for iLife if all I want is iPhoto to be faster??? I think no. We’ll see.

And where are the faster Macs????