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And somehow, her having 'Real Men DO wear hairband' as the Caption probably wont go down too well with her...

Well according to the Beep, this is the first major sports event of 2006. **Wasn't there the Olympic Games earlier this year?

So now its poker at Old Trafford then... Clicky

yes you have....No.

WTF? a computer with a builtin mirror for the metrosexual? Clicky

Mølby, he is Danish after all, my bet for second, purely based on nationality would be Piechnik....

Another reason to not knock the e-season ticket is that even if you get to go to all the PL/FA/CL etc games, it still provides you with game highlights and even full games of several of the U games, following LFC, is not only about the First team, but also reserves U and so on. A lot of fans don't have the money, opportunity etc. to follow both the first team and all the other LFC teams.

The Nerdie part is knowing that especially the last 2 of these movies is like watching the inner parts of a computer, where a trojan or a virus is doing damage to the OS, and the Virus checker, AdWare program is trying to catch and destroy the virus/trojan etc. From a Visual effect perspective, number 1 was mindblowing, because it had scenes/effects/camera shots never done before in a movie, which is probably also why it was such a hit, whereas both number 2 and 3 is cult in the geeky/nerdy circles, because this is where you have all the analogies to a computer and its OS and a Virus/Trojan on the loose....

So you're the dude from Monkey Business?

Ok, since nobody else is gonna offer up an explanation, I'll give you mine, however being a computer programmer, it might be too techie, so let me know if you want more info, or some things needs rephrasing. A torrent system is a peer-to-peer program meaning my Torrent program connects directly to your machine, you don't go via a central server. This is used for several things, but at the moment it is mainly used for 2 things. Filesharing, meaning I share a file, and you can connect to my machine and get it via a torrent program, or streaming content. If you've used any of the streaming programs, PPLive, TVants and several others, then you're actually also using a torrent program, here it is just used to share a live tvprogram, as opposed to a "dead" file. So why is torrent programs becoming so popular? LoadBalancing is the reason. Whats that? Well it means that instead of a central server hosting 1 file and all users trying to access that server and thereby slowing that server to a crawl, you'll balance the load by spreading it on a lot of machines, in the case of torrents, the torrent users. Before I go, I'll just mention some methods used before to do loadbalancing. The easiest one, is just adding more servers, or network interfaces to the server, to balance the load on more servers and network interfaces, but this can cost serious money, so for a lot of companies this isn't a viable solution. Then you can host the file on different mirror servers, which is very often seen in the case of s/w in the opensource community, i.e. #NIX s/w. However again, this approach normally only works if your freeware or shareware s/w, these mirror server for instance won't host s/w from commercial companies like Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe etc. These companies normally outsource their s/w servers to companies like akamai, whom, for a fee will host the commecial s/w on their servers and distribute this to whomever wants/has the right to download it. Akamai then do all the server setup, load balancing between servers etc. without the commercial companies needing to concern themselves with having the infrastructure for this. Now, then we come to torrents, which build on the same principle as SETI, Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence, which is a program, that analyse listening info from big telescopes which is listening to space, and SETI then analyse this info, to see if some kind of Alien has send us a message. Now to crunch all of these numbers and analyse this data, would take them hundreds of years, so what they have done, is they have created a program, that you install on your computer, it then download a small part of the info that the telescopes has gathered, analyses this on all the millions of computers around the globe which has this program installed and then sends the info back to the SETI@home control program, which then sends a new piece of info to be analysed and so on. This way millions of machines are used ever day and a lot more info is being analysed everyday, than SETI by themselves could do. Info here SETI@home Now back to torrents, it works after the same principle. Instead of putting a file onto a server and everybody pull the file down from there, the file is placed on the server, and torrentprogram 1 downloads the file to its own machine, and as long as the torrent program is running, it then also hosts the file, and next time torrentprogram2 tries to get the file, it will then download some chunks of the file from the original server as well as some chunks from the machine running torrentprogram1, which means the load on the server itself is being dimished. Now this is ok for older versions of torrent clients, however for newer clients, it is both acting as a server i.e. it is serving the small chunks out to all that wishes to get the file, and at the same time, get chunks from other torrent machines. This is why it is so popular now, before it could only serve as a server when the entire download had finished, but now the download doesn't have to be finished, as long as 1 entire chunk is downloaded, it can then serve this to other torrent programs that wishes to receive this specific chunk. This is why it serves as such a good protocol for programs like PPLive, which then rey on the userbase to show decent stream, since so many is connected at the same time, and can feed out to others. This is also the reason why the streams is almost always coming some minutes after the TV signal, since it needs to be decoded from the TV-Station, in these cases the asian channels, feeded out to clients, which then will take a little before they have gotten the signal, and can feed it out to the next in the Torrent system, however if you can live with this lag of a couple of minutes, its defo good, and the more PPLive/TVAnts etc clients connected at the same time, the better the quality of the stream. Hope this made it a little more clear? Or just more nerd talk?

Fella and Bar man?

What more could you want, Sand and Snow. Et voila, you have yellow snow storms as has been hitting Korea and Northern China... Clicky -20 degree and sand/snowstorm...

A website that contain links to all games etc. Click

I was in Hong Kong last year in February, the temperature dropped below 10 degrees, and they had 10 mins on the main news about this. About a week later, there was a typhoon, or hurricane, or whatever it is called down there, which barely got a mention in the news. Prorities I guess....

Happy Birthday, now onto the Snow topic. You're saying that the English are the worst at dealing with a little snow. Of my time in the Peoples republic of Cork, I've been sent home from work twice, when there was a "threat" of snow, people scrambling to get their cars, busses was halted at the bottom of the hill up to Hollyhill, Taxis didn't drive etc. All for a meager inch of snow...

Urinho post match interview: He blamed Peter Kenyon for not getting Chel$ki into the G14, and by not getting into the G14, he made sure Del Horno and Essien were awarded match bans for their red cards. **He makes the Kennedy assasination conspiracies seem small in comparison....

Now isn't that nice, I try to stay in touch with my friends as well...

A long time since I've seen so many cracking goals on MoTD.

and a very good corner as well. Lets buy him....

Skoubo.... :tease:

He's had this the last couple of matches I've seen on Sky with Depor, so I guess he'd had it for atleast the last month.

I'm so out of touch, so you're saying Momo would be no good, if he had only one leg? :tease:

With the players we have at the moment, and looking at the way Rafa liked to play in Valencia, I would imagine something like the below in midfield and attack Crouch/Moro ^ ^ Kewell-> ^ Xabi Sissoko Arrows for indication of potential running patterns etc. This way Gerrard will have the freedom to roam as you see with a Ronaldinho in Barca, and Garcia/Fowler will have the attacking midfielder/ hanging attacker as you see with Aimar in Valencia. This to me, is the strongest midfield/attack we can put out when all is fit etc...

That is too close to the Budweiser for my liking, some might drip into your mouth...

Thats the one and only Eamonn Dunphy...