AB släppte idag ett rykte om att Daniel Alfredsson kommer skriva på för ytterligare 4 år med Ottawa. Det känns i allmänhet som om det har blivit fullt accepterat att hålla på med ishockey i högre åldrar, trots att det fullkomligt kryllar av supertalanger som Ovechkin, Crosby, Malkin, Toews och Kane i NHL. Fast det sjukaste med det hela är att +35-åringar med endast ett fåtal år kvar på topp erbjuds kontrakt med rena fantasisummor. Fast å andra sidan har ju många av dem bevisat att de håller hög klass fortfarande, Lidas är ju fortfarande topp 3 i världen trots sin ålder… Sudden skulle dominera vart han än gick (mycket subjektivt).
Hur skulle du känna om du fick +150 miljoner för att göra det du tycker är kul över fyra år? Skulle nog vara rätt skönt! Jag undrar vad jag skulle välja att göra? Hockey är ju lite som en hobby – men givetvis även ett jobb. En hockeymatch är 3x 20 minuter, de största stjärnorna (såsom Alfredsson) spelar effektivt runt 30-40 minuter per match. Grundserien i NHL är 82 matcher, således kommer Alfredsson att tjäna ungefär en halv miljon per match, du kan själv räkna ut vad han har för effektiv timlön under match. Hyfsat. Självklart är det otroligt mycket hårt arbete som ligger bakom själva matcherna, massor av tid på gymmet, massor av träningstid på isen – men ändå. Vafan?
Gizmodo showed and shared their first impressions on Windows 7 the other day. I have to say that it’s looking pretty sharp at first glance. Having said this I’m not really sure how we’re supposed to approach this, is this the final version of Vista, or is it really Windows 7? To me it looks like a tweaked version of Vista, but probably with a better backend engine.
Yesterday we celebrated that Hamley’s has finally reached Dublin by going on a half-day visit to the Dundrum Town Centre, the name surprisingly not being a joke. Hamley’s setup is quite impressive, they’ve got a three floor massive store space filled with toys for all ages. Of course, boys-toys department, as in radio controlled gadgets of various kind was the instant target for me, the Greek and Keith.
I can highly recommend the purchase that Keith walked away with, two Sky Challenger Copters armed with infrared to shoot each other down. It’s made the Sunday chill into mayhem in the mansion, check out the video I found on YouTube. You’ll be sorry if you don’t buy them!
Today I stumbled across the news that Footytube, my personal favorite football video highlights website will be re-designing their website and launching Footytube 2.0 sometime in November. From what I can see in the video-demo (latest video on the site), it looks like they’ve really put a lot of effort into the new site and it simply looks amazing. Check it out at Footytube.com and sign up for the beta!
When I posted the last month in numbers update this summer I revealed some statistics about the number of spam-comments that Akismet has cleaned and stopped from appearing on this blog. The numbers are quite amazing! However, I recently noticed a sudden increase in spam targeted towards my blog, which I’m not particulary happy about. I cleaned the spam-queue (comments that are stopped by Akismet, but still ‘kept’) just a few days back, but still managed to have 742 new ones this morning. To be honest, I don’t really care, it’s just disturbing that there are still people creating bots spamming the Internet, what’s that about? The most disturbing to me is that these people are probably millionaires!
I read somewhere that before Bill Gates semi-retired, he received about 4 million emails daily (that’s right, daily!) that were considered spam. Akismet has a cool SPAM-Zeitgeist on their site which shows that only today there have been about 8.8 million spam-messages caught, meaning that a stunning 86% of all comments are spam.
