Archive for the 'World Cup 2005' Category

Go Ghana!

Monday, June 12th, 2006

No offense to all my italian friends, but I’m rooting for Ghana today.
I don’t know if it comes from my sympathy for the under-dog, or from having played football with kids in Uganda and knowing that the game means so much to them that they’ll play barefoot, and still out run, and out […]

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32 Cards - PHP Based World CUP 2006 Game

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

I remember the WTF moment I had a couple years ago when Frozen Bubble was released. The game was nice but the awesome bit was the it was based on PERL, which was my programming language of choice at the time.
I had that moment again this morning when an email arrived in my mail box […]

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Croatian soccer fans trade blood for Football tickets.

Sunday, October 9th, 2005

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com
Croatia has got to be one of my favorite countries in Europe… I’ve visited Zagreb tons of times, had friends in Rijeka, spent two summers in Makarska/Split area, and this short article brought all the memories of my many football-loving croatian friends flooding back in.
ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatian soccer fans […]

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