This month got away from me with work, some stuff getting done around the house and travel, it’s been good. Today I finally got a little time and it was not raining to get the monthly picture from the back window. The autumn is certainly here and I do need to sweep the leaves from the deck. That will be followed by probably do my…
Ideas – that is why social media is important
I was talking with my leadership at work about BWE and of the questions that got repeated time and time again was exactly what is social media? What does it really do? And perhaps most often, why is it important? I’ll try to answer the final one of those, and why I see a problem. At it’s most basic; Social Media is a tool for…
First thoughts from BlogWorld 2011
What is there to say about BlogWorld 2011? So much and this is just my first thoughts, I’ve got a lot of notes, audio and interviews to go through yet. There are a few more posts to come. This is my second BlogWorld Expo, last year it was in Las Vegas and was a really entertaining three days. And while LA may be the center…
I could not help myself, this stuff is like crack
I’ve finally got to the point where I admit I have a problem, I’m an addict and now the Sounders year is done I’m not sure what I’m going to do about it. Lets take baseball as an example; I’ve watched maybe 3 or 4 baseball games all year. Then all of a sudden twitter went crazy with people talking about game 6 of the…
It’s still raw, but 2011 has been a great year
It all came to a halt last night and no one should have been surprised, after Saturday the odds of playing in the conference final Sunday were long. And that’s no ones fault other than the players that put on the atrocious display in Salt Lake Saturday night. In the past I’ve been impressed by Salt Lake, but after the last couple of games I…
Alonso the Honey Badger!
I’ve no idea why, but this makes me smile. Via Sounder at Heart
Aldershot 0 – Manchester United 3
Tonight a small lover league team took on Manchester United in the League Cap in England. As expected Aldershot were well beaten, but that is only part of the story. Aldershot was the first club I followed closely, I went to a lot of games with Pete, a neighbour of my parents. Aldershot is quite the story, they went bankrupt, “saved” by a 19 year…
Thank you NBC, it’s been wonderful
Some time in the early morning Sunday New Zealand beat France to win the Web Ellis Trophy in the Rugby World Cup. Now, I’m sure the Kiwi and Kangeroo on Greenlake was heaving at three in the morning when the final whistle blew. New Zealand were red hot favorites, lets just say the Kiwis at work were feeling confident on Friday. It ended up being…
A little more fun with numbers…
Having one of my periodic looks through my stats this evening and I discovered a number of things. First that my “there is no such thing as anonymous” still holds true. Despite using fronting service to hide their identity, a certain user from Kirkland spent almost 45 minutes surfing my site late last night through one of those sites that promise to keep your identity…
Sounders 1 – Monterrey 2
Not a game for the ages, but tonight we saw some world class players show how effortless this game can be. We also saw the difference between victory and loss can be wafer thin. This was the last game of the champions League group stage, Seattle were already through and Monterrey (the defending champions in this competition) came loaded and needed a result to ensure…