April 25, 2007

Mac Poker Online

rmiles7721April 25, 2007Entertainment

I got an email about the site a little while ago and have been checking the site out for the last little while. Although I don’t use a Mac currently I have several friends that do and my brother does also. This may or may not be of interest to them.

Basically Mac Poker Online is a news site/blog that provides information about online casino games for Macintosh users. There are links to several available sites, saving you a bit of time searching for a site that you can use. Not even remotely poker related, I did find a cartoon of Bill Gates Vs. Steve Jobs that I haven’t seen before that made me laugh for a few minutes.

There are several different areas of the site, including one that goes into the rules of Poker. While I have played extensively, this is a must read for folks that haven’t but are interested in playing whether on or offline. Some of the links that I looked at were Pacific Poker which is currently a featured room, as well as Poker Stars.

Overall the site was pretty cool. The design is green, reminiscent of a card table and there aren’t an over-abundance of advertisements which is always nice. There is quite a bit of “industry” related news, and while I am not big into card playing, they are well written and I found myself reading through them pretty thoroughly.

There is also an option to get the newsletter emailed to you as well, which is always a nice feature. Just make sure to list the domain on your non-spam list in your email client or it might get caught there.

One thing that I was not aware of (I told you I didn’t do a lot of online gambling) is that you cannot use your paypal account to play with, and most sites actually ban US players because of our laws. There is at least one site over there that does though, so if I were to ever start playing at least I know now where to get my information.

This post has been sponsored by Mac Poker Online.

Temple Tigers Lose 18-0

rmiles7721April 25, 2007Parenting/Family

Just damn -If I could put a little copyright sign here I would 🙂

Pete’s softball team is down to eight players now. Just the minimum to play. There were some issues earlier in the season with the coaching and several of the parents, us included, complained about it to the Mayor as well as the rec department. It wasn’t even so much the coach as it was her family members that attended, although she could be quite sharp at times. She was good at what she does though. Apparently she won’t be back coaching any teams in the foreseeable futre.

Pete hasn’t been feeling very well lately. As a matter of fact she had to stay out of school Monday due to the fact that she felt so bad. Hopefully she is a bit better today.

Anyway, she went ahead and played last night, which was good because if she hadn’t they would have had to forfeit the game. As it was they had their asses handed to them and lost 18-0. That is probably the worst game they have played in the last two years. Pete did manage to get a hit but was caught out before she made it to first. She is hitting better though, and I know that helps it to be a bit more enjoyable. Now if she could just learn to throw and catch a little better she would be kicking some serious butt.

The big thing is that she seems to be having more fun. We won’t let her quit, once she decided she wanted to play she has to finish the season, but if she decides not to play fall ball or play next year that’s OK.

Post Weirdness

rmiles7721April 25, 2007Blogging, Technology

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this, but each of my posts going down the main page is progressively smaller and smaller. I am using tables, but I have my MTEntries stuff INSIDE each table, so it shouldn’t be duplicating those. I may end of switching back to a purely CSS driven page after all. I am just not that good at coding it. It worked fine on my test site, but here it is starting to look extremely weird.

I guess I need to break out that CSS book and take a look at it or something. I have a couple of computers to look at today and some posting to do, as well as the fact that I want to go outside (imagine!) and work in the garden but maybe this evening I can fix it up. It only took me a couple of hours of fiddling to actually get the comment posting fixed, so maybe it won’t take too long to get this right as well.