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Updates….

May 30, 2008 gfurlong 2 comments

Sorry for not updating… lets talk about

English Premier League

Liverpool, again this season reached 4th place. 11 points away from United (deservedly champions). Liverpool had lacked the cutting edge to beat teams when necessary. Drew too many games. Fernando Torres was the only highlight of the whole team. Torres scoring 20+ goals in his debut season is simply superb. Whether he can keep it up next season remains to be seen. The new formation 4231 has been rather effective last few months of the EPL with Gerrard playing attacking midfielder/supporting striker. Brilliants signings.. Javier Mascherano, Martin Skrtel and Babel. Can’t wait for Agger to get back in the team. Risse has been tremendously poor – Sell Him!. Alonso, brilliant passer…. poor season really… but I’m not so sure we should sell him yet. Lucas is still new but promising. Crouch – feel sorry for him. Rafa should use him more often. Bring him on the second half of the game cos he can cause trouble with his height… defenders have a hard time dealing with him. Kuyt…. performed better when he was switched to right winger… but is that all this guy can offer? The owners, co owners, Gillette and Hicks… embarrasing. Their squable has made Liverpool a laughing stock. And we should be if these two don’t buck up and give the cash to buy quality players to challege the likes of United, Chelsea and Arsenal. Nuff said.

Champions League

Chelsea could have nicked this game. Hit the post twice in the second half although they could have been down by 3-0 in the first half for some poor defending. Ronaldo was all over Essien (who make a make shift right back) and I believe that was the problem. In the second half, Essein improved and the best thing he did was to attack… best form of defending. United, well to say they played brilliant.. can’t really say.. but they won it. Otherwise, the game was rather not that entertaining.

Battlestar Galactica Season 4

Man… this show just keeps me (and my brother!) in awe! Brilliant script.. more revelations as each episode goes on. Who is the 5th Cylon? Don’t know yet…more later..

UBUNTU

Well, managed to download the latest UBUNTU 8.04 distro… and wow.. the installation was just simply and quick. Took me some time to figure out the partitioning/formatting style as I was afraid it would accidentally wipe/install on a partition that I had files in. Nevertheless, once upon installing it… UBUNTU figured out all the neccessary settings, especially the net and I was online immediately using Firefox 3.0 beta version. There were many updates available and it took almost 2 hours to download all the patches. Once that was installed…. it was perfect. The initial installation only allow 800 by 600 resolution on my Samsung monitor. Once the updates were make .. my resolution was better … up to 1680 by 800… good stuff!!

Nevertheless, I feel it’s still difficult to market for the general public. I like it cos it’s fast and at least now I know if my Windows fails on me.. I have an alternative OS to surf the net with. Lots more to learn about it.

VISTA

Got the latest Microsoft OS, VISTA HOME PREMIUM… gonna install it today as my Win XP got screwed up. Decided to update and I hope no issues especially with a clean install. Keep ya all posted..

Torres hits his first hat trick and Eduardo’s horror ankle injury…

February 24, 2008 gfurlong Leave a comment

Liverpool beat Middlesbrough 3-2. Although Torres scored his first hat trick, Middlesbrough gave us a lots of scare here and there. I was thinking it was going to be another draw.

Thankfully, we had Torres’s pace, power and intelligence to see us, er trying to secure the 4th spot! :)

If you missed the match, the video below tells it all..

 

On another note, Arsenal’s striker, Eduardo is out for the rest of the season, maybe for 1 1/2 years or so with a horrific ankle injury. Looks bad really. But, this is the nature of the game. I don’t think it was a malicious tackle, but the Birmingham player, Taylor got sent off with a straight red card.

Watch the video and you’ll see it…