The new season has started…

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Follow the quest of Ingoal’s Invicibles on their way to glory?!

I’m competing with Joe Price (see mates for their sites) and some of his english mates for this year’s crown in the FLID FANDANGO QUANGO Super League…I guess it’ll be an interesting “fight” till the end…we’ll see if I can repeat last year’s success (I finished 2nd in last years Super League)…

If you’re still thinking: “What the hell is he talking about?” please read the following explanation…

A little info on the game itself
In this fantasy footie game you get to pick your (hopefully winning) eleven…you pick:
1 Goalie
4 defenders
3 midfielders
3 strikers

You can “buy” them for a predetermined value, but you gotta make sure that you don’t exceed your 50 million pound budget (or else your squad won’t score any points). To react to events like lack of form or injury you’ve got 24 trades that will allow you to change 24 players in total for the season. But be careful and don’t waste too much trades in the beginning as it’s a long season.
To make things more interesting you can create your own super league (password protected) and compete with mates!

Points are awarded as follows: 

All Players

•	Appearance (full match)	+2
•	Appearance (part match)	+1
•	Goal scored	+5
•	Penalty missed	-5 (including FA Cup shoot-outs)
•	Key contribution to a goal	+3 (including own goals)
•	Sent off	-5
•	Booked	-2
•	Own goal	-3

Goalkeepers/Defenders

•	Clean sheet (full match)	+4
•	Clean sheet (part match)	+2
•	Penalty save	+5 (including FA Cup shoot-outs)
•	Goal conceded	-1 (not including FA Cup shoot-outs)

Intel drops prices…

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…especially for the newer Prescott models by as much as 7% with the Celeron D 2.66GHz and 35% with the top model P4 560 (3.6GHz, Socket 775).

Hmm….so it might get interesting to buy an Intel chip in the near future after all…although I’m still unsure about where their socket-concept is heading (478 -> 775 -> ?), so I guess I’ll sit an wait for a while…

Blog world here I come!

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It’s coming…
It’s coming…
It’s here!

After looking around the ranks of my fellow SitePoint Forums Advisors I’ve decided that it’s time to “catch up”. So here it is…my own personal blog.

As you might have already seen I decided to run WordPress, mostly due to the fact that it’s based on b2 which I’m already used to…so it only took me some minutes to do the basic setup procedure. Getting it to look a little nicer was a totally different issue though. I added a theme-switcher (by Alex King) so that everyone can use the theme (s)he likes best (there are six different ones atm, more themes might follow later on).

In an effort to make the blog accessible not only through your browser I setup links to different feeds too (click on the corresponding Icon). I hope you like it.

If there are any errors feel free to contact me…I guess there’s still a lot to do…but enough is enough and so I’m calling it a day…

Ingo