Monthly Archives: January 2006

Sporty sunday

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Fantastic stuff today. After finishing playing the indoor footie tournament I switched on the telly and found the good stuff on Eurosport. First they were showing the Africa Cup of Nations (Football, or soccer for the americans) live from Egypt – Guinea beat South Africa 2-0 -ÂÂ and now they showed the Snooker Masters Final between Ronny O’Sullivan and John Higgins…and to my surprise Ronny couldn’t win it, yet again. He lead the best of 19 frames match 9-8 and had a break of 60 points at the start of the 19th and final frame, but John Higgins came back and cleared the table to capture the title…

Indoor footie tournament reloaded

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We’re playing the “Bottwartal Turnier” tomorrow. This should be fun, at least I hope so! This is the one indoor tournament at the beginning of the 2nd part of the season were all footie clubs out of the near surroundings compete for the cup, so no hobby players.

I’ll post an update tomorrow morning…let’s see how it goes…hopefully a little better than last year (we won the first two matches and lost all remaining games)…

Update:: The tourney went quite well, although it was up and down and didn’t seem to end. We started to play shortly after noon and had our last match shortly after 6pm. Our results: LWLWLWL, so three wins, 4 losses…better than last year. On another note: noone was (seriously) injured on our squad which is good news, although there are some minor injuries. A team-mate banged up his knee a little bit, all players have abrasions from the nasty indoor floor and I banged up my right wrist while taking a fall on the slippery floor. It really hurts and I’ll wait till tomorrow to see if the hand /arm is getting better or worse, I hope that it’s “only” a sprain…

Email outage

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A message for all people who sent me an email today which bounced back:

I just noticed that I didn’t get any emails today. So I looked up my server settings and the status and everything seemed fine, but in reality the imap-daemon had crashed, without the monitoring service noticing it, argh! So it could be that some emails, especially addressed not directly to my address, but to an old one, have bounced. If it was something important please feel free to resend your mail as everything is back to normal now. Thanks and sorry for any inconvenience!

Roundup

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Wow, it’s been a while since I last posted something around here. With all the christmas, new year and different other stuff coming up, it was hard to find the time, but now I’m back.

Server, Domains, etc: Although Ingoal’s Insight… is still hosted with Dreamhost, I’ve got my dedicated server up and running now, finally. So, I’m probably moving this site over sooner or later, as there’s no point in paying twice, although Dreamhost’s hosting packages have just been updated once again: quatrupled (space) and octupled (bandwidth) to be precise, so you can get 20GB of space along with 1 TB of bandwidth for as little as 7.95$/month. Check it out!

Apple: Does MacBook Pro ring a bell? Intel Core Duo (dual core Pentium M) along with the possibility to run Windows (although not officially supported by Apple). This is certainly good news, and I’m really considering switching to a Mac in the near future (although I’ll wait for the update of the iBook, MacMini and PowerMac series before I make a decision about which way to go).

Fantasy Footie: After the good run in the old year I started to drop in ranking again and it’s going to be a hard fight until the end of the season, I’m not sure I can surpass Mr. Price, but at least I’m giving it my best shot – and one way or another, it’s has been fun.

Uni:ÂÂ I’m currently taking some time off and I’m in the need to find an internship, as this is the last thing on my todo list before I head into the final exams in March/April…then I can start my diploma thesis, which I can hopefully complete before the end of the year.

Ingoalnetwork: The sites are finally completed and some network sites have been added, for news about the network head over to the new network blog.

Chitika: After the bad experience in October I stuck around and since then they’ve been working hard at improving their overall solutions (the product of emini-malls themselves, almost real time audits, etc) and I’m happy to report, that their reports are now much more accurate and with the addition of european support the clicks and hence the revenue has really been stabilised. On another note: I receive the first payment (for november) just days ago, so I’m really satisfied now, I’ll keep you updated about it the following months…in the meantime feel free to check their blog and our give their emini-malls a test run.

Poker: For all the newsworthy stuff about my new passion poker head over to my poker-blog.