Eriksson comes out fighting

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FA to quiz Eriksson

FA to quiz Eriksson 08/02/2004 10:44 PM
The FA's acting chief hints the England coach might keep his job, a day after the chief executive quit over an affair.

Eriksson to battle on

Eriksson to battle on 09/05/2004 09:46 AM
Sven-Goran Eriksson intends to stay on as England coach, despite criticism after the draw with Austria.

Davies gives Eriksson hope

Davies gives Eriksson hope 08/02/2004 03:17 AM
The FA's acting chief hints the England coach might keep his job in the row that has seen the chief executive quit.

Eriksson praises King

Eriksson praises King 02/19/2004 04:24 AM
England coach Sven-Goran praises Spurs defender Ledley King he scores on his full debut in Portugal.

Eriksson full of confidence

Eriksson full of confidence 06/23/2004 10:35 AM
Sven-Goran Eriksson says England deserve to be among the Euro 2004 favourites.

Eriksson backs Owen

Eriksson backs Owen 06/18/2004 10:20 PM
England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson throws his full support behind Michael Owen.

Football: FA backs Eriksson

Football: FA backs Eriksson 09/23/2004 10:49 AM
The FA hits back at media claims surrounding Sven-Goran Eriksson and the England coaching set-up.

Eriksson refuses to panic

Eriksson refuses to panic 06/02/2004 02:20 AM
Sven-Goran Eriksson says England will be ready for Euro 2004 despite an unconvincing draw with Japan.

Football: Eriksson hails Beckham

Football: Eriksson hails Beckham 08/18/2004 08:38 PM
Sven-Goran Eriksson praised David Beckham after England's 3-0 win against Ukraine.

Football: Eriksson in 'no rush to sign'

Football: Eriksson in 'no rush to sign' 02/15/2004 09:18 AM
Sven-Goran Eriksson will delay signing his contract extension until after Euro 2004.

Football: Eriksson names squad

Football: Eriksson names squad 08/14/2004 03:07 PM
Engalnd coach Sven-Goran Eriksson picks several young players for the Ukraine game as he plans for the future.

Football: Lampard backs Eriksson

Football: Lampard backs Eriksson 07/31/2004 12:27 AM
Chelsea defender Frank Lampard comes out in support of Sven-Goran Eriksson.

Football: Eriksson warns Fifa

Football: Eriksson warns Fifa 02/18/2004 05:09 AM
England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson says it would be "a mistake" if mass substitutions in friendlies were outlawed.

Eriksson 'denied secretary fling'

Eriksson 'denied secretary fling' 06/24/2005 07:04 PM
The England football coach denied having an affair with an FA secretary, an industrial tribunal is told.

Football: Owen supports Eriksson

Football: Owen supports Eriksson 08/08/2004 03:34 AM
Striker Michael Owen is backing England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson but fears he may yet quit.

Eriksson 'does not fear sack'

Eriksson 'does not fear sack' 07/28/2004 02:52 AM
Sven-Goran Eriksson is confident he will keep his job, says his assistant Tord Grip.

Football: Eriksson backs Beckham

Football: Eriksson backs Beckham 04/15/2004 03:55 PM
England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson says David Beckham will be "very focused" when he plays at Euro 2004.

Football: Eriksson in upbeat mood

Football: Eriksson in upbeat mood 06/06/2004 04:57 AM
Sven-Goran Eriksson says England are in better shape for Euro 2004 than for the last World Cup.

Football: Eriksson confirms squad

Football: Eriksson confirms squad 06/02/2004 02:55 PM
Frank Lampard is handed the number 11 shirt in England's Euro 2004 squad.

Football: Eriksson remains calm

Football: Eriksson remains calm 09/08/2004 03:07 AM
Sven-Goran Eriksson insists he does not fear the sack if England lose against Poland.

Football: Eriksson hails midfield

Football: Eriksson hails midfield 03/27/2005 03:22 PM
England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson says his new-look midfield is as good as any quartet in the world.

Football: Eriksson rallies England

Football: Eriksson rallies England 03/26/2005 05:15 AM
Sven-Goran Eriksson says England are reaching their peak and will be out to prove it against Northern Ireland.

Football: Eriksson Cole role hint

Football: Eriksson Cole role hint 03/25/2005 08:55 AM
Sven-Goran Eriksson may hand Joe Cole an England starting place against Northern Ireland.

Fighting the last war

Fighting the last war 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
From 60 Minutes, Clarke's Take On Terror (Clarke was the White House terrorism adviser). "There's a lot of blame to go around, and I probably deserve some blame, too. But on January 24th, 2001, I wrote a memo to Condoleezza Rice asking for, urgently -- underlined urgently -- a Cabinet-level meeting to deal with the impending al Qaeda attack. And that urgent memo-- wasn't acted on. "I blame the entire Bush leadership for continuing to work on Cold War issues...

Fighting pop-ups

Fighting pop-ups 01/18/2004 08:17 PM
Standard pop-ups: Many tools, some of which are free, block the pop-ups that are displayed by Web sites. One of the most popular is offered by Google. ...

SAP comes out fighting

SAP comes out fighting 03/06/2004 02:06 AM
NetWeaver 2004 will go head-to-head WebSphere and BizTalk, according to a CNET News.com story, SAP plan could spawn ...

What We're Fighting For

What We're Fighting For 05/22/2004 03:39 PM
A newly formed women's group mounts undercover missions near American military bases to improve troop morale: "If you are out there partying and engage in casual sex you might as well 'Take One for the Country.'"

But I'm fighting Hitler..!

But I'm fighting Hitler..! 11/10/2003 10:48 PM
Daredevil and Captain America Hang Out... at the Quickstop.
(Warning: Flash --and geekfare!-- follow.)

The ignorance you're fighting against

The ignorance you're fighting against 08/13/2004 03:47 AM
Folks, it appears that you haven't been doing your job, or perhaps you're just being ignored. I'm speaking to both vendors and IT personnel here. The security execs and "senior IT" people don't seem to get it when we talk about identity management.

Fighting back

Fighting back 01/06/2005 04:59 PM
USA Today Jan 6 2005 8:02PM GMT

Fighting ID theft

Fighting ID theft 06/08/2004 07:28 AM
USA Today Jun 8 2004 11:57AM GMT

Fighting Content Rot

Fighting Content Rot 07/11/2004 12:35 AM

If you manage a Web site for more than a few months, you run into problems of content rot. You'll be cruising through some old pages, and you'll find stuff that's...off, for one reason for another.

For instance, when this blog first started, I was anal-retentive about enclosing BLOCKQUOTEd text in quotes. It was a quote, after all. I would go through all the text I quoted, find double quotes, convert them to singles, then surround the entire thing in double-quotes before BLOCKQUOTEing the entire thing.

Now, this was very admirable of me, but when I started inviting others to blog with me, that whole concept broke down. Not everyone was doing it, and since it wasn't consistent, I didn't want to do it at all. However, there are still a thousand or so entries sitting out there with quotes around them.

Just recently, we started to standardize code fragments we post with by using the CODE tag and the Sim pleCode script. There remain, however, a hundred or so posts with code hacked up in BLOCKQUOTEs or DIVs or God knows what.

These aren't an isolated cases — there are styles that we've since abandoned, double-dashes that haven't been replaced with the — entity, etc. I try to nail these things as entries hit the site, but I miss some. On top of all this, throw in link rot — links that just 404 over time — and comments. Ugh, comments...

I try to stay on top of comment spam, but I'm sure some get through. Additionally, there are stupid comments that slip by (why do people insist on testing my comment form with 'fgfgfgfgfgf' all the time?), and comments that aren't relevant any longer — people complaining about bad links that I've fixed or mis-spellings that I've corrected.

Categorization is another thing. I added the Temple of Mac category at about entry #1,600. However, I didn't bother to go back through all the old entries and move all the Mac-related entries to the new category.

Mix all this together, and you have a site that doesn't really age well. I'm sure if I tooled through 100 old entries, I'd have something that needed to be fixed or corrected in at least 40 of them. How do you handle this? Gadgetopia is hurtling toward entry number 3,000, and that's a lot of volume.

I've often thought that I should create a script that just generated 10 random entries a day for me to review. Each morning, I'd get an email with 10 entries in it that I need to look over and touch up. But how do you make sure you get them all before you start getting duplicates? I suppose you could log them all in a table and then join the entries table against it to filter out entries that had already been covered. Like this:

SELECT e.entry_id FROM mt_entries e LEFT JOIN already_reviewed e ON e.entry_id = r.id WHERE r.id IS NULL ORDER BY RAND LIMIT 10

(I haven't tested this SQL, mind you.) Wrap some PHP around this, schedule it for the middle of the night, and you'd have 10 entries every morning that you can tune up. Perhaps I'd send 10 to myself, and three or so to each of the rest of the authors.

I think, however, I'm going to try something different. I'm on the verge of putting another sidebar on the front page called "One Year Ago Today" that lists the things were we talking about a year ago (see the OnThisDay plugin). I'll schedule an automatic rebuild of the front page every morning at 1:00 a.m., then check the year-old entries while I'm eating my Crunchy Corn Bran in the morning.

Maybe this will work, maybe it won't. If someone wants to take a stab at the mailer script (or if you already have), please post a link. If anyone else has any thoughts about content rot, let's hear them.

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"Fighting together for one America"

"Fighting together for one America" 07/06/2004 09:52 AM

Down but Not Out, Kucinich Keeps On
Fighting

Down but Not Out, Kucinich Keeps On
Fighting 05/16/2004 10:44 PM
Before Americans get too engrossed in a showdown between President Bush and Senator John Kerry, Dennis J. Kucinich would like to remind them of something: He's still out here.

"Fighting Failure"

"Fighting Failure" 09/27/2004 11:18 AM

Down but Not Out, Kucinich Keeps
Fighting

Down but Not Out, Kucinich Keeps
Fighting 05/17/2004 12:02 PM
Dennis J. Kucinich would like to remind American voters of something: He's still here.

Everybody was Kung-Fu fighting

Everybody was Kung-Fu fighting 12/15/2003 04:29 PM
More misguide copyright protection fun: Miramax demands Kung Fu site remove link to a site that USED to sell a current Miramax property

Fighting spam: Opting out is in

Fighting spam: Opting out is in 06/23/2004 01:13 AM
Straits Times Jun 23 2004 5:26AM GMT

Fighting phishing and defending IM

Fighting phishing and defending IM 04/04/2005 03:35 PM
Google adapts its e-mail service to foil online fraudsters. Microsoft is also out to nail phishers, and faces a worm targeting MSN Messenger.
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