Internet Rantings

This week is going to be a collection of miscellaneous thoughts. First off, I did some searching on YouTube and found some interesting sites including several on Eric Clapton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8wbTHzNcQQ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_av4Vz3BfcQ I've been lucky enough to see Eric twice in concert up in Seattle. I'm hoping that he comes to Seattle at least once more. I'm also a Carlos Santana fan. I've seen him twice as well. I found this clip on YouTube as well, it's his performance from Woodstock, one of the greatest live performances, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnamP4-M9ko The last time that I saw Carlos was at the White River Amphitheatre. When he played this song, he used clips from this footage up on the screens next to the stage, it was something to see. I was quite happy that this last concert that I saw of his, he played a nice retrospect of his career, including many of his hits from the late 60's and early 70's.

Like most things on the internet, there are good things and bad things. YouTube can be a fun place to explore and see what people have posted. Some of it fun and interesting to look at and others boring and uninteresting. I have some experiences with Podcasts from work. They can be quite useful, it allows someone to be trained without having to leave where they work. If something isn't understood, you can just replay the podcast, until it is understood.

I have discovered that someone down in Reed College, Portland, Oregon has taken a picture that I had used on my Flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/tbirdshockeyfan and claimed it as their own. Needless to say I was quite upset when I discovered this. I only found out about it, as I was looking at my Flickr site and discovered an odd URL that someone had used to look at my picture. I was surprised to see the blog that was written about the picture. The blogs author at least linked the picture back to my Flickr site, but what they wrote irritated me. So far nothing has been done, although I have now de-linked the picture so all that they have on their post is a space where it says the picture is currently unavailable, although if you click the spot where the picture is suppose to be, it still takes you to my picture and my Flickr site.

Today's UEFA Champion's League Final looks like it was a great game to watch. I can't wait to go home and watch it. I was torn over who I wanted to win. Man. U a team I have seen in Seattle and cheer for in the EPL. They were trying to become the first back to back champions since A.C. Milan in the late 1980s. Barcelona won, which means that when they come to town in August to play the Seattle Sounders FC, I'll be watching the reining UEFA Champions League Champions play, that will be a very cool event indeed.

This is the last week's worth of training, so I'm not sure if more training is going to be coming in the future, if there is, I'll be blogging on here about that. If there isn't, I might just blog about sports on here, thus my reason for giving the blog its title. Hopefully the M's will pull out of their funk and get back on track. Seems like when the offense is clicking the pitching needs help and vice versa. Just like the old days with the M's, one part got fixed and the other became broke, oh well, a true fan supports their team whether they win or lose, no matter how badly they play. Go M's!

Thanks for taking the time to read my thoughts and hopefully looking at the links I have been providing.