Hmm…

Not a lot of good things to read into this score line, but then again I don’t think we should worry too much. We looked a bit shambolic in defence for all of the goals, but I guess they haven’t quite got the first team sussed yet, and there weren’t an awful lot of wise old heads at the back tonight.

My main concern is how toothless we looked up front. Mind you, starting with Santos playing up there doesn’t help, and switching to 4-5-1 after half time didn’t help either!

It was my first chance to see quite a few of the new boys. Mixed impressions:

Shimmin: looked confident and calm (maybe a bit too cocky), took the ball down nicely on his chest in situations where others might have hoofed it. Not too hot in the air though, which is a bit of a worry for a centre-back.

Hislop: not sure - quite nippy but looked a bit inexperienced, and knackered by the end.

Brown: not much in the way of attacking play - a bit anonymous a lot of the time.

Nygaard: I think he’s going to come in for a bit of stick, and he didn’t really do much to impress, although he didn’t get given much of a chance by Ollie. Managed to get beaten in the air quite a few times which takes some doing when you’re a 6’5” striker!

Doherty: I think he may be the new Birch - which is good, since Birch looks like he’s still struggling in some way, maybe his mystery virus is back? My only worry with Doherty is that I think he’ll be getting a few red cards this season, which could cost us.

Ukah: like Shimmin, looked quite composed, and a decent player, but Bignot was close to Furlong for my player of the year vote last season, and but for my money Ukah isn’t yet as good.

It was disappointing not to see Sturridge, Evatt or Moore - presumably they are injured?

Also annoying that Ollie is still messing around playing people in weird positions. Put your best players in their best positions mate, then make do with whoever’s left in the problem places!

Best moment in the game: Dan Shittu’s pile driver, hit from way out, which rocketed off the crossbar. It deserved to go in, and if it had it would have been the best goal he scored in his whole career. From then on, every touch he got was accompanied by cries of “Shoot! Shoot!”.

According to Slashdot, Yahoo have bought Konfabulator, and are going to give it away for free.

Sounds like good news - Konfabulator is great. As things stand at the moment, I much prefer the combination of Konfabulator and Quicksilver to the Tiger alternative of Dashboard and Spotlight.

A few weeks ago I posted a rant about spam and how I’d quite enjoy the irony if a bunch of “good hackers” decided to take down the sites of some of the spammers.

According to the BBC, it looks like it’s already happening.

I’m not sure what I feel about this sort of vigilante action.

On the one hand, it seems like it might be setting a dangerous precedent. On the other hand, people who send spam are moronic fuckers who are ruining mot people’s enjoyment of the internet for their own personal gain, and I have no sympathy whatsoever for them.

We went to see the legendary George Clinton on Saturday, but it’s taken me this long to recover and post about it.

What a gig! After the first song, there were so many people on stage I thought it was the encore. After about the third song, they’d been going over an hour, and I suddenly realised that the drummer had changed. Hypnotic stuff. To quote the band, “Two thousand zero zero party over, oops out of time. Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1979”.

My only criticism is that they kind of lost their way after about the third hour! Quite a few of the band seemed to have left by then, and it degenerated into the worst kind of 12-bar, rock & roll medley jam thing.

Still, I was so glad that I went, and I’ve still got one of the tracks going round and round…

Kevin Marks pointed out Danny O’Brien’s pledge over at PledgeBank, to create a British equivalent of the EFF.

This sounds like a sensible idea to me, particularly with the current political climate. Sign up please!