The RGD Factor

Real Salt Lake's main sponsor

Real Salt Lake will be the first professional sports team in the USA to have their sponsor's name on their jerseys. This is very common outside the USA but this is a a first in the USA. Who is the sponsor? A Lehi, Utah based multi-level marketing (MLM) company called Xango who apparently sells this stuff for $37 a bottle ($1.54 an ounce). I went looking for information on Xango and found this interesting article about their business practices. Take it for what it's worth. For my money, green tea has all the anti-oxidants I need and it's a lot less expensive. And for you LDS people, my doctor is LDS and he told me that green tea wont keep me out of the Celestial Kingdom.

http://www.amquix.info/xango/xango.html

Sweetness!

My kids are too young to have ever seen Walter Payton play. I think everyone in America was a Bears fan when Walter played:

Battlestar Galactica and Mormonism

Here's an interesting site that investigates parallels between Battlestar Galactica and Mormonism:

http://www.millennialstar.org/index.php/2006/02/12/ligbattlestar_galactical_ig_and_mormonis

Something good about radio in the Salt Lake market

I was turning through the radio stations in my car and found a station that was playing contemporary Christian music, 97.5 FM. I've been getting tired of listening to the same old depressing contemporary music with messages that contradict my personal values. I'm glad that this station has entered the Salt Lake market. They don't play just LDS music, they play inter-denominational music. They even stream online so if you're out of state you can listen too. Their Web site is http://www.975oasis.com/

Boise State - The Real National Champions

The BCS needs to be abolished. Boise State proved they should be playing in the National Championship game. They proved that they're one of the top 3 teams in the nation.

RGD

Read about it at http://sports-ak.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?confId=&gameId=270010201

Ding dong Saddam is dead

Ding Dong! The Saddam is dead.
Which old Saddam?
The Wicked Saddam!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Saddam is dead.

Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Saddam is dead.
He's gone where the goblins go,
Below - below - below.
Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.

Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know The Wicked Saddam is dead!

(Mayor)
As Mayor of the Baghdad City,
In the County of the Land of Iraq,
I welcome you most regally.

(Barrister)
But we've got to verify it legally,
to see.

(Mayor)
To see?

(Barrister)
If he.

(Mayor)
If he?

(Barrister)
Is morally, ethic'lly

(Father No.1)
Spiritually, physically

(Father No. 2)
Positively, absolutely

(Munchkins)
Undeniably and reliably dead

(Coroner)
As Coroner I must confirm,
I thoroughly examined him.
And he's not only merely dead,
he's really most sincerely dead.

(Mayor)
Then this is a day of Independence,
For all the Iraquis and their descendants.

(Barrister)
If any.

(Mayor)
Yes,
let the joyous news be spread,
The wicked Old Saddam at last is dead!

New! - World Record Blog

Come to my new blog. It's based on the Guinness Book of World Records.

World Record Blog

Osama Auditions

Gerald Ford - 38th President of the USA, dead at age 93

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/27/washington/27webford.html?ex=1324875600&en=a6bcff67250d2eff&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Help Me Oprah Winfrey

I'M ON FIRE!!!

Most idiotic petition ever

These people seriously need to get lives; and I thought Star Trek fans were geeks.

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ultimate_betrayal/

How to buy editted movies without trouble from the MPAA

Here's a good concept. You buy the unedited movie from them and they edit it for you, then you get both copies. This seems legal to me, but I'm no lawyer.
http://www.goodmoviesonline.com/home.php?Vl=6&Tp=2

How to do the degree symbol "°" on your keyboard

Hold down the ALT key and type in 248, then release the ALT key and the ° will appear.

Wettest Desert

I'm going to start posting little facts that I find in the 2007 edition of The Guiness Book of World Records. Here is my first one:

The Sonora Desert, Arizona, USA - where daytime temperatures may exceed 104° in summer - receives 4.7 - 11.8 inches of rain annually. This desert is unusual in that it experiences two wet seasons - one from December - March and a second from July to September.

Happy Kwanza from the high desert

MySQL 5.0

This is a free program that I love. You have to be a little bit of a geek to figure it out, but it's a lot more powerful than that piece of garbage, Microsoft Access. MySQL comes with some really good documentation to figure it out. It can be downloaded from
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html

I also recommend using the GUI Tools, they make life a lot easier and they also allow you to import your other databases, including Microsoft Access, to the MySQL platform.

Here's a screen shot of a database I created in about 2 minutes using the MySQL Query Browser:

One other nice feature is the Workbench (included in the GUI tools) that allows you to reverse engineer a database to create UML diagrams. This is a Crows Foot Notation of the Northwind Database I imported to MySQL from MSAccess using the Migration Toolkit: