Soccer - This is the season where many soccer players are looking for sand socks or beach soccer socks. It is getting close to summer time so many beach soccer tournaments and other beach sports activities are going on. And since I have blogged about beach soccer and beach soccer socks before, I thought I inform you that Soccer Nation now sells beach soccer socks also known as sand socks. These socks are not meant for soccer only, they are also good for other athletic activities too.
Beach soccer is certainly a growing sport across the world and it is defiantly a fun activity here in US specially in the beach cities. In Oceanside we have a nice beach soccer tournament that just happened last week on May 2nd. The tournament is very large and many teams and clubs with various age groups were there this year to compete.
To learn more about this tournament go to their website: BeachSoccerUSA.org
Programming / Web Development - PHP 6 is going to be even a more object Oriented Programming language in PHP 6. There are some features added and some legacy ones removed.
Here are the features added:
- Improved Unicode Support: Helps with broder internaitonal support
- Namespaces: Helps avoid name collisions
- Web 2.0 Features (whatever that improvement means)
- Web Services: (SOAP enabled, OOP XML details hidding by details)
Here are features that have been dropped:
- register_globals
- safe_mode
- magic_quotes
- register_long_arrays
- ASP tags no longer supported
There are more stuff being added or dropped. To get the full list. See here for The Future of PHP.
Soccer - Ok Manchester United, also known as the Red Devils, defended their last year’s EPL title and won their 10th EPL title. I am a bit unhappy because this should have been Arsenal’s title as Arsenal was on top of the table until a few games ago where they hit a series of injuries which resulted in several consecutive ties therefore they lost their lead spot.
But credit is also due to Man U. for fighting until very end. The EPL player of the year, Cristiano Ronaldo, should receive some of that credit as he has been in shape of his lifetime and remains very consistent in each game. Also Sir Alex, the wise coach of that team should recieve a great deal of respect and credit as well.
Manchester United will face Chelsea in Moscow for European Champion’s league and if the Red Devils manage to win this title, they will be the team of the year and United’s Cristiano Ronaldo will be the best player of the year in Europe as well.
Congrats ot Manchester United Fans. Don’t forget you can get your Manchester United or soccer gear at Soccer Nation soccer store.
A recently-discovered flaw in Gmail is capable of turning Google’s e-mail service into a highly effective spam machine. According to the Information Security Research Team (INSERT), Gmail is susceptible to a man-in-the-middle attack that allows a spammer to send thousands of bulk e-mails through Google’s SMTP service without fear of detection. This attack bypasses both Google’s identity fraud protection mechanisms and the current 500-address limit on bulk e-mail.
Soccer - I just found this new blog that is supposedly going to have a list and review of soccer stores on it. I nominated our Soccer Store to that blog and hopefully they will add Soccer Nation to their blog. The URL of the blog is http://soccerstores.blogspot.com. Please nominate Soccer Nation with a positive review to go with it too.
Web Development - This post is to respond author or “What is Web 3.0?” post I saw on DIGG today.
Gotta love the buzz words people throw out there just because it sounds cool. Ok I have nothing against the author of this post in fact I had heard of Web 3.0 before but last time I checked many people are still trying to understand “web 2.0″ because it is nothing but a Buzz word. So what Wikipiedia has a definition for Web 3.0. I can post a Web 4.0 definition on it too and call myself the first guy who ever talked about it.
The bottom line is that internet is an open media open to inventions and creativeness. Websites can and in my opinion should reflect the creativeness, culture, and mindset of their creators and web services should cater to their unique clients.
It is an open media, it has no version. For me as a user, the internet is a media that continues to evolve and as a web developer and a SEO specialist, it is an ongoing refinement of my web pages according to demand.
I am not going to go back to my sites and change the fonts from Verdena size 10px to Georgia size 12px because that font and size is more web 2.0 friendly.
As the web developer, I decide how I want to control the look and feel of my site. I see what converts into sales and leads, and what works for me and my organization.
If an all flash site is the solution, so be it. If it is those small late 90s fonts, why not.
Don’t get me wrong I don’t mind a certain standardization when it comes to web development but I am dead against labeling the internet with buzz words such as web 2.0 and web 3.0. So please stop with the buzzwords and lets stay creative and cater to our customers and visitors according to what we feel fit. Internet is too damn big to be labeled and I like it that way.
Music & Media - I really liked Audio Slave as a band while they lasted. The power of Rage Against the Machine and Voice of Sound Garden. My most favorite song from them was of course “Like A Stone” and after band broke up, Chris Cornell did an acoustic version of this song which is great and I like it alot so I thought I share:
SEO / SEM - Today I logged in to this blog and I have over dozen of new comments needed to be moderated but most of them were pure junk and spam. So I click on spam button that deletes those comments hopefully prevents the user’s IP address in future to post on this blog. Of course they can change their IP if you know what they are doing but most of the n00b spammers don’t know that.
If you want to get some traffic to your site from this blog, I have no problem with that but please write some relevant comments so I can justify approving your comments. You can follow the following guideline so your comments may show up in this blog.
1. Make sure your comment is relevant to topic you are leaving your comment on: For example if I am talking about the upcoming Champion’s league final Manchester United vs. Chelease, the least you can do is leave some sort of comment about that game or those teams.
2. Make me feel good: If you can’t think of anything that is relevant, the least you can do is make me feel good and smart by saying something like “hey I like this blog” or “What a nice post” or some similar statements.
Oh yah. Since this is a personal blog, I reserve the right to approve or deny any comments I wish even if you are following the guidelines above. Also keep in mind that all comments will have a nofollow attribute so it will not help your SEO if you are commenting for SEO reasons only.
Anyway, hopefully this will keep commenting on this blog clean.
Soccer - Beach soccer tournament this year was good. I am a bit unhappy because they didn’t allow us to sell Sand Socks because another vendor had exclusive rights to sell Beach Soccer balls and Beach Soccer Socks and had we known that, we would not have ordered so many of them and it was not on the contract either. Anyway life isn’t fair all the time.
Other than that, I think the tournament was good. Or should I say it has been good so far because it is going on as I am typing up this post until end of day today. Here are some pictures I took from the tournament and our booth. I took them with my cell phone and also because of the sun, the quality isn’t as good as it should be but it’s good enough for the web I guess:
Soccer - The Portuguese soccer star, Cristiano Ronaldo who currently plays for the English powerhouse club of Manchester United, has been name the Player of the Year for the second consecutive year.
As an Arsenal fan, I admit this guy is great and has been the winning card of Manchester United this year. He is in a shape of his lifetime and he has room just to get better. If he performs well this summer in Euro 2008, then I will have no doubts for him to win the whole thing, that is FIFA’s world player of the year.
Congrats to him, Portuguese fans, and the Manchester United fans.
