May 21, 2008
Posted at: 11:37 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Entertainment and News
In a shocking twist, David Cook became the newest American Idol.
The fans who vote for Idol saw it differently however, and the vote tally swung in Cook’s favour, possibly because of his maturity and old-soul rocker vibe. Some reviewers also suspected a backlash among voters against the judges’ comments, which seemed to unfairly favour Archuleta.
A record 97 million votes were cast overall, 23 million more than American Idol’s previous high. In the end, Cook won by a relatively wide margin, 56% to 44%, or 12 million votes.
Congrats!
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May 20, 2008
Posted at: 11:26 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Tech and Web
For me, the right web hosting solution was Dreamhost, but you may want something different.
The following is a sponsored post. “Web Hosting Pal” is a website that helps you to determine which hosting company/plan is right for you. It gives you a list of web hosting companies that have been rating in the top 10 based on price and services. Once you click on a hosting company, “Web Hosting Pal” gives you more information about them. Tells you what services they offer with the advantages of each.
You want to look for a web hosting company that gives you the best options, not just the most options. Unlimited use of the company’s music library is useless unless you are building a site for an elementary school library and music is fun to have on the kids page. For someone like me, who builds web applications, paying for that wouldn’t be worth it. However, if they offered me unlimited domain hosting to my data limit is really helpful to me, so Dreamhost works. Also for me, One click install of Wordpress really helps on the different blogs I host for everyone else (not this one). I know, Dreamhost has had a few problems lately, but I am not running a high profile business off of them.
The only problem with “Web Hosting Pal”, is they haven’t updated their top 10 since October of 2005, so I’m not sure how accurate their prices are. Check out “Web Hosting Pal” and also look at Dreamhost because I really enjoy them.
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May 19, 2008
Posted at: 11:16 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Sports and Leisure
Didn’t I just write about a Red Sox no hitter last season? Well, here’s another one for you. Jon Lester threw a no hitter tonight against the Kansas City Royals in a 130 pitch effort. It was the first no hitter since Clay Buchholz pitched one on September 1, 2007. Lester was only the 5th left hander to pitch a no hitter at Fenway Park with Mel Parnell being the last Red Sox pitcher to do it in 1956. Jason Varitek set a major league record for catching the most No Hitters at four.
With no score going into the third inning, the Red Sox put some points on the board to give Jon Lester some breathing room (even though he didn’t need it). JD Drew scored on a double play RBI from Lugo making it 1-0. With the bases loaded, Manny walked bringing in another run. Still with two outs, Lowell hit a pop fly to the 2nd baseman which should have ended the inning, but he mis-judged the wind and the ball fell bringing in two more runs making it 4-0. Finally, Youk hit a ground rule double to bring in Manny (5-0).
In the 4th inning, the Royals came as close as they would come to getting a hit. With two outs, a Royals player (not important :-)) hit a ball to Jacoby Ellsbury in center field that was falling fast. Ellsbury dove and made the play just before it hit the ground ending the inning and the “threat”. In the 6th, Varitek hit a two run home run to put the Sox up 7-0.
In the 9th, Jon Lester closed out the game with his first complete game and first no hitter. Congrats!
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May 18, 2008
Posted at: 11:43 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Sports and Leisure
After a rough 7 game battle against the Cleveland Cavilers, the Celtics are returning to the Eastern Conference finals against the Detroit Pistons for the first time since 2002. However, the C’s are going to need to win on the road at some point in this next series. They have not won on the road in the playoffs this year. I know that we have home court throughout, but they don’t want to leave it up to some bad calls by the officials and lose by 1 point. There were a few points in this game 7 that the officials got the wrong call and it went against the C’s.
Lebron James scored 45 points out of the Cavs 92 total points. The big story today was Paul Pierce having the game that everyone was hoping he would have. He scored 41 points of the 97 total that the Celtics had. Finally Kevin Garnett isn’t carrying the team like he has been the past few games. The other two of the “Big 3″, KG and Ray Allen accounted for 17 points. I wish Allen would try a few more times to shoot than he has been, but hopefully he will bounce back against the Pistons. KG was all over the glass today collecting 13 rebounds, 11 of them defensive. Garnett proved why he was the “Defensive Player of the Year”.
Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals starts on Tuesday, May 20th at 8:30pm. “MAKE HISTORY OR BE HISTORY”
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Red Sox sweep the 3 game series against the Milwaukee Brewers in two days. After a rain out on Friday night, the Sox played a double header winning both and battled for the final game today.
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May 17, 2008
Posted at: 1:44 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Sports and Leisure
Since the Red Sox were on the road for Mother’s Day, I figured I would get her tickets to a game for the next weekend that they were home. Since the seats are really nice, I had to consider this her gBirthday/Mother’s Day gift since the seats were really nice.
Today they are playing an unscheduled double header against the Milwaukee Brewers. Originally Tim Wakefield was scheduled for today’s game, but since the game was rained out last night, Daisuke Matsuzaka is now scheduled for the game that I am going to. I have seen Wake pitch MANY times, but never DM, so it will be awesome.
GO RED SOX!!!!
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May 16, 2008
Posted at: 11:10 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Entertainment and News
By a margin of $400 over Danielle Zsenak (Marquette University), Joey Beachum from Mississippi State University took home the Championship and $100,000.
Final Jeopardy was:
ANSWER: The Quadruple Alliance Began In 1813 against this country; In 1818 it let this country in and became the Quintuple Alliance.
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QUESTION: What is France?
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May 15, 2008
Posted at: 11:36 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Tech and Web
While at work the other day, our SVN server decided that it wanted to shut down randomly. Well, nothing is completely random, but I don’t know why it shut down. However, I have not found an easy way to restart it. The only way that I have figured out to accomplish this is to restart our entire server and restart it. Luckily our SVN is on our development server and it won’t cause any problems, but it is time consuming wait for it to load back up. I was hoping that I could set it up as a service so I could do something like: /sbin/service subversion restart or /sbin/service svn restart.
If anyone has any incite on this matter, it would be awesome.
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May 14, 2008
Posted at: 11:58 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Sports and Leisure
The Celtics were not playing to their potential in the 1st half, but the Celtics are undefeated at home and the 2nd half proved why. The 3rd quarter, they took a huge lead after trailing and were able to hold onto the win at the end 96-89. Even though LeBron James racked up 35 points in the game, the C’s took the win making the series 3-2 putting the pressure on Cleveland in game 6.
GO C’s!!
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May 13, 2008
Posted at: 11:45 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Entertainment and News
Earlier today, there was a sample poll taken by Democrats who said that they wanted a joint ticket with Obama as Presidential nominee and Clinton as Vice President nominee. However, there was another exit poll after the ballots were counted in West Virginia that said neither party would be happy with the other as the nominee for President. I know they are two different polls, but they do work together to prove that the party is divided and that Clinton is only making it worse by staying in this race. She is going to lose (unless something drastic changes) and she is keeping the party separated.
Hopefully once the polls close in Oregon, Clinton will realize that her push for office in 2008 is over and drop out. It will give Obama a few more months to pull the party back together and get the Republican party out of the Oval Office. As for a joint ticket, I would be fine with it as long as Hillary drops out next week. If she keeps it to the convention, than she cares more about the power than the party and she doesn’t deserve the spot on the ticket BEHIND Obama.
**NOTE: The price of gas will be rising to $4.29/gallon soon!!! Just over 1 year ago, we were at $2.16/gallon doubling in a little over a year. The price for a barrel of oil in $125, by 2013, they are predicting it to be around $300 per barrel. THINK ABOUT IT
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May 12, 2008
Posted at: 11:48 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Sports and Leisure
Manny Ramirez hits his 498th career home run to put him 2 away from the elite 500 club. Two more!
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