Federer just beat Nadal at the Madrid Open! On clay. In Spain. In straight sets. Fed was serving very well and not crumbling at clutch moments like he’s been prone to lately. Even won the match on an ace after a shaky game. Congrats, Roger.
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Madrid Open: Worst Site Ever
Well, not ever, but the website for the Madrid Open is one of the worst sites I’ve ever used. The logo is ugly (reminds of the London 2012 logo but that one still takes the cake), the color scheme is way off (gray on bright aqua?!), and the overall usability is absolutely horrendous. Just horrible. And oh, it scrolls sideways. I can’t believe people are paid to produce sites with this magnitude of suck. Or a likely scenario is a tournament organizer’s “nephew who knows web stuff” put the site together.
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Yao Ming Presser After Game 1
Wait for the end. Yao Ming’s a funny guy! This could be a very good series. I picked the Lakers but I totally wouldn’t mind Houston winning.
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NBA Playoffs 2009
I’m rooting for the Bulls in this series. Last night was crazy. 3 OT’s? Joakim Noah’s fast-break dunk was badass – straight up for the slam. That’s how you do it! No sissy layups. Just put the ball in the basket. Rose had a critical block but he missed both free throws – clutch failure. If Boston had 10 seconds or a timeout, it would’ve been very dangerous. Ray Allen was on FIRE last night, damn. But let’s face it, if KG were healthy, Boston would probably have won the series in 5. But now they’re toe-to-toe with a 7th seed Eastern team. But neither team really has a chance to make it to the conference finals.
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Morning Routine
Every morning, as I sit down with my coffee and bagel, I pull up Google Reader and the New York Times. I read some news and wade through my subscribed RSS feeds for interesting stuff. Every morning there’s between 200-400 new items in my reader. I’m subscribed to over 220 feeds, in a whole range of topics, but my subscriptions are dominated by sites that enrich my professional knowledge. This can take up an hour or two, depending on my schedule. Sometimes when I think about it, it’s quite remarkable how so much information is available at our fingertips. And it can all be delivered straight to us for immediate consumption.
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Taliban Slowly Taking Over Pakistan
I mean seriously – what is up. They’re running wild and the Pakistani government is just letting them. What are we going to do next, invade Pakistan? So not only are we making no progress in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s now taking over Pakistan? Let’s not freakin forget Pakistan has nukes.
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Time Warner Cable Bandwidth Caps
Bandwidth caps are bad for consumers, plain and simple. It’s simply a way to squeeze more money out of consumers while the cable company’s costs are largely fixed. Granted, they’re only expanding to a few select markets (including Rochester, NY), but they’ll be crazy to do this in any market where they actually have competition like Verizon FiOS. As for Verizon, they’re not doing bandwidth caps because they need to gain market share against the cable companies, not because they’re the good guy. Verizon is spending a lot of money building out fiber networks and are heavily dependent on subscriber growth. They need to be taking customers away from cable companies and see this is a competitive advantage. Trust me, if Verizon FiOS were very well established, they’d be considering bandwidth caps too.
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Pirates
There’s been lots of news about pirates recently having taken an American ship and now holding a captain hostage. I think they need to learn that at least when they take American ships, they’ll suffer the consequences. I know nothing’s ever simple, but I wish we would just send in commando teams to retake the ships. When you negotiate and pay ransom, pirates will only continue their activity because it works.
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Firefox Plugins in IE 8.1
That’s genius. Many Firefox plugins will work in IE 8.1. Though, that doesn’t mean I’ll switch, considering the pending FF 3.1 with its new Javascript engine. But IE is definitely moving in the right direction (especially with 71/100 on the ACID3 test). See what real competition can do? Produce better products for consumers.