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When did the USA discover soccer? - Bernie Goldbach

Soccer. An old-fashioned epithet used only by Americans to describe football. End. - Dean Whitbread

Thanks for the heads up on my tumblr "Comments", Andy. I changed themes awhile back and did not even notice the comment link. I also closed disqus account. - missTech

Regard 'answer display', aha. Regard 'two questions a day limit', when I posted a third question and enabled the answer box, Tumblr responded with "You asked two questions already, you may asked another tomorrow". - missTech

"No. Oddly enough, even though I was in the store at the time, I didn't even hear it which, thinking back, was rather strange." - Andy C

"'Englishman Andy Murray' (sic) You can expect a call from his Scottish lawyers :-)" - Andy C

"Hmm - talk about how to lose (good) customers. I suspect emusic won't be around in 12 months time." - Andy C

"Yes. The first clue came when the email to tell you your email was broken bounced. Glad it's fixed now." - Andy C

"Doubt it.. You're like me - a serial experimenter." - Andy C

"I'm bitterly disappointed for Fletcher but proud that he bore the obvious injustice like a man. Walked off silently with his head held high. I dearly hope he gets another chance at Champions League glory and suspect he will. As for 1979, don't mention that game. I was watching it at home on TV and the noise levels from my Dad and I brought my Mum into the lounge to watch the last few minutes after we got back to 2-2. When Alan Sunderland then headed that winner, my Mum thought United had won it and was whooping and shouting while my Dad and I sat in horrified silence. Hard one to take." - Andy C

"Three years ago, I expressed my admiration for Michael Essien as a potential Keane replacement - http://ur1.ca/44yr I suspect Chelsea would have mounted a serious title challenge if Essien hadn't missed the majority of the season through injury." - Andy C

"It was Michael Essien which was a shame as he scored a fantastic goal. Maybe he was a little tired after chasing shadows for 90 minutes trying to get the ball off Barcelona. Gus Hiddink conducted himself with a great deal of restraint, dignity in the post-match interviews. Terry, Drogba, and Ballack could learn from him. But they won't." - Andy C

"Not really. I view each case on its merits. The CV is purely a means to secure the interview. I wouldn't necessarily discard a CV because a person had the letters 'PhD' there. I'm more interested in the person, his/her background, interests, motivations, ambitions etc. I hate to say it but I often see 'PhD' on a CV and when I drill into it, it transpires the thesis was never actually submitted and the PhD was never actually awarded or he/she is still working on it. That would concern me." - Andy C

"I think I know you well enough to speak frankly and this is necessarily aimed at you as I think you are a 'mature' (sic) PhD student. However, for people, who stay on at University to study for a PhD immediately after completing their BSc, I always rather assumed these people were perpetual students who were either: 1) academically minded and well may end up being a bearded lecturer at the same institution. 2) not overly fussed about having any money. 3) simply deferring the day when they leave the warm, closeted environment of academia and are dragged, kicking and screaming to enter the real world where they try to seek gainful employment." - Andy C

"Nice addition although to be useful to me, it would be really great to add identi.ca as a service (and mini profile)." - Andy C

"Thanks for reading :-)" - Andy C

"A belated welcome to Habari. Enjoy the ride." - Andy C

"I think they have the wrong idea about who their potential users are and what they want, and what to expect from them I think you have the wrong idea about Laconica. Completely." - Andy C

"Got here via your new, shiny account on identi.ca - http://identi.ca/notice... Welcome to the OMB federation !" - Andy C

"It would be a long list. Try searching for 'Powered by Disqus' and you'll find a few - http://ur1.ca/2xg8" - Andy C

"Hi Pat - you're right. I'd completely forgotten that IntenseDebate is now owned by Automattic." - Andy C

"Thanks for popping by, Doug. Hope the course in Germany goes well. I'm sure it will. Maybe a blog post on Streetview would be interesting on your return but thanks for confirming the story - from the horse's mouth (as it were). I expect you'll be mobilising myself and the other Andrew C of 'Radio Free Tooting' with a call to arms (or two fingers at least) in the South London area imminently. Viva la Revolution !" - Andy C

"Interesting article as ever and love the concept of VLI but I must call you out on 'Twitter and Openness'. Twitter's refusal to participate in OMB and share their source code with the world so we can address the performance and scalability problems hardly make it open. Can you download Twitter and install it behind the corporate firewall ? No. Can you implement Twitter with an Oracle back-end or modify it to alk to OraTweet ? No. If you are mixing the words 'µblogging and openness' in the same sentence...try 'Laconi.ca'" - Andy C

"Lawrence - no need. If you have ever set up software that uses PHP and mySQL, you can do it yourself. The latest version of Laconi.ca )0.7.2.1) comes with a user friendly Web installer that isn't widely known. http://ur1.ca/2hau If not, email me at andycowl at gmail dot com and I'll try to help you out." - Andy C

"I installed Sweetcron and found it non-trivial to add feeds not supported OOTB. YMMV. If I was starting out today, I;d probably use Tumblr. You can easily post text, photos and feed your various streams into it." - Andy C

"Michael - been there, done that. I'm not studying. I simply don't have the self-discipline. I could not go back to academia. I suffer exactly the same thing. I work as an Oracle 'consultant'. We visit customers with problems, we run workshops, we do performance tuning, we investigate bugs that have been open for 4 months, we assist with escalations, we try to help. Almost always, we are required to produce a 'deliverable' to the customer. This summarises the work done, progress (if any), recommendations, outstanding actions etc. Now - guess which is the fun bit: performance tuning, glory hunting, tweaking Siebel and Oracle or writing the report :-) Excluding notes, guess how much of the report gets written during the onsite engagement and in the lonely hotel room at night. Not much. The report is normally written offsite (normally from my kitchen table) and I suffer exactly the same conflict - a multitude of interesting, thought provoking, exciting 'inputs' and one singular, necessary..." - Andy C

"I think MediaWiki is the IBM of Wikis. No-one ever got sacked for choosing it. From a pure user perspective ('putting words onto a Web site' as I rather flippantly expressed it), it's widely used and relatively easy to start contributing. I presume that was why Habari originally chose to use it. Initially I thought you have have been simply yearning for more yak shaving by merely wanting to play and experiment with alternative Wiki technologies rather than face up to the complicated, non-trivial, never-ending and unpleasant task of organising the Wiki structure (which is far, far harder than writing words). However, having read your thoughtful and considered post, I appreciate your somewhat different perspective. If I was tasked with organising and project documentation using software I didn't enjoy using, that would (obviously) be very demotivating and have a negative influence on my contributions. I think an implicit, unstated requirement is to seamlessly import all the existing..." - Andy C

"Although I don't have legions of fans wishing to register for my 'make money blogging' series of articles and counselling classes, even I can see the wide potential for the use of this plugin.. OK - I admit it - ACL was a good idea . Without it, this would have been non-trivial, I suspect :-)" - Andy C

"I can only suggest you pose these perfectly valid questions in the Disqus forums where they are more likely to be seen and responded to." - Andy C

"It's OK - I didn't really want to visit Goop.com to see Gwyneth's terrible site. And what's this new, trendy 'cpm' domain she is using. Thinks she's so much better than us mere mortals, doesn't she ? Maybe check your own links before slagging someone else's site, eh ? People in glass houses and all that. Fix it or I'll tell Gwyneth who will send Chris round :-)" - Andy C

"When you mentioned the mere possibility of $10m VC funding, I could have sworn I could hear three Exadata salesmen beating a path to Larry Halff's door !" - Andy C

"Hi Ben - the script is available from http://ur1.ca/1" - Andy C