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7:49:57 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Hobbies • My Interests

Crazy end to a game this afternoon - watch the last few minutes

• Saints trailing by a point.
• The ball in the Saints forward line.
• It appears that there is a second on the clock.
• Umpire blows a whistle for a ball up
• Freo players waving arms around
• Ball goes out to Steven Baker who kicks a point and ties the scores.
• Fremantle officialis come onto the ground
• Baker gets a free kick, but kicks another point
• Scores are level and it is a draw.
• Fremantle dudes claim they won by a point.
• Ugly end to an ugly game!

	Qtr Time	Half Time	3 Qtr Time	Final
St Kilda	2. 5 (17)	6. 7 (43)	9. 9 (63)	13.16.    94
Fremantle	5. 2 (32)	10. 5 (65)	12. 7 (79)	14.10.    94
St Kilda: Goals: - F.Gehrig 3, J.Blake 2, B.Voss 2, S.Milne 2, N.Dal Santo, N.Riewoldt, L.Montagna, A.Murray. Best: - N.Dal Santo, L.Hayes, J.Blake, L.Ball, B.Voss. Fremantle: Goals: - M.Pavlich 6, J.Farmer 3, L.McPharlin 2, D.Headland, M.Johnson, D.Gilmore. Best: - M.Pavlich, P.Bell, J.Carr, D.Headland, A.Sandilands, B.Schammer. Injuries - St Kilda: M.Hudghton (hand). Fremantle: nil. Reports - St Kilda: nil. Fremantle: nil. Umpires - M.Vozzo, H.Kennedy, M.Nicholls. @ Aurora Stadium, Launceston. Crowd: 15,282.

5:12:22 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Hobbies • My Interests

For the first time this season, the Saints are playing on a weekend, during the day. It's been a weird start to the season

This is reflected on the poor replay options on Fox Footy this week

Tuesday 25/04/2006

• 1.30pm  Round 4 Port Adelaide v St Kilda

Friday 28/04/2006

• 8.00am  Last Time They Met 2005 Rnd 21 Fremantle v St Kilda

Sunday 30/04/2006

• 11.00pm  Round 5 St Kilda v Fremantle

The good news - I finally get a live game.

The bad news - it's on Channel 9 on Sunday at 1pm

9:11:15 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Hobbies • My Interests

Not only did I have to stay up to 11:30pm to watch the game, Saints lost as well.

I've been grumpy all day. It was a fast paced, high scoring game - but the Saints didnt look like winning. Defence was loose and the forwards missed some changes. Grrrr

PORT ADELAIDE 6.2 12.5 17.6 19.8 (122)
ST KILDA 4.2 8.5 14.9 18.10 (118)
Goals: Port Adelaide: J Mahoney 6 S Dew 4 P Burgoyne 3 W Tredrea 2 M Pettigrew B Ebert N Lonie D Motlop. St Kilda: A Hamill 4 N Riewoldt 3 T Schwarze 3 S Milne 2 L Ball 2 A McQualter S Baker B Voss X Clarke.
Best: Port Adelaide: B Lade C Cornes J Mahoney P Burgoyne P Walsh S Dew B Symes K Cornes. St Kilda: N Dal Santo N Riewoldt L Ball A Hamill S Fisher X Clarke.
Injuries: Port Adelaide: D Brogan (broken ribs, collapsed lung). St Kilda: J Koschitzke (corked leg).
Reports: Nil.
Umpires: S McLaren S Grun M Avon.
Crowd: 32,188 at AAMI Stadium.

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5:40:52 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Hobbies • My Interests

After getting a huge shock in the first test against Banglasdesh, the Aussie team have won by 3 wickets! Talk about a great escape

Scorecard

Test no. 1797

Australia in Bangladesh Test Series - 1st Test Bangladesh v Australia

2005/06 season

Played at Narayanganj Osmani Stadium, Fatullah, on 9,10,11,12,13 April 2006 (5-day match)

Result Australia won by 3 wickets

Bangladesh 1st innings			R	B	4s	6s	SR
	Javed Omar	lbw b Gillespie	27	40	6	0	67.50
	Shahriar Nafees	b MacGill	138	189	19	0	73.01
	Habibul Bashar	c Lee b MacGill	76	113	11	0	67.25
	Rajin Saleh	c sub b MacGill	67	203	6	0	33.00
	Mohammad Ashraful	lbw b Gillespie	29	28	4	0	103.57
	Aftab Ahmed	c Hayden b MacGill	29	54	3	0	53.70
	Khaled Mashud	st Gilchrist b MacGill	17	63	0	0	26.98
	Mohammad Rafique	b MacGill	6	25	0	0	24.00
	Mashrafe Mortaza	lbw b MacGill	6	23	0	0	26.08
	Shahadat Hossain	not out	3	9	0	0	33.33
	Enamul Haque jnr	c Hayden b MacGill	0	5	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(lb 16, w 2, nb 11)	29
	Total	(all out; 123.3 overs)	427

Fall of wickets 1-51 (Javed Omar, 10.5 ov), 2-238 (Habibul Bashar, 50.4 ov), 3-265 (Shahriar Nafees, 60.2 ov), 4-295 (Mohammad Ashraful, 66.3 ov), 5-351 (Aftab Ahmed, 85.2 ov), 6-398 (Khaled Mashud, 107.5 ov), 7-416 (Mohammad Rafique, 117.2 ov), 8-417 (Rajin Saleh, 117.6 ov), 9-424 (Mashrafe Mortaza, 121.6 ov), 10-427 (Enamul Haque, 123.3 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	B Lee	19	5	68	0	3.57	(7nb)
	SR Clark	25	4	69	0	2.75	(3nb, 1w)
	JN Gillespie	23	7	47	2	2.04	(1nb)
	SK Warne	20	1	112	0	5.59
	SCG MacGill	33.3	2	108	8	3.22	(1w)
	MJ Clarke	3	0	7	0	2.33

Australia 1st innings			R	B	4s	6s	SR
	ML Hayden	lbw b Mashrafe Mortaza	6	12	0	0	50.00
	MEK Hussey	b Mohammad Rafique	23	65	2	0	35.38
	RT Ponting	lbw b Shahadat Hossain	21	32	3	0	65.62
	DR Martyn	b Mohammad Rafique	4	11	1	0	36.36
	MJ Clarke	b Enamul Haque	19	50	2	0	38.00
	AC Gilchrist	c Shahadat Hossain b Mohammad Rafique	144	212	14	6	67.92
	SK Warne	c Khaled Mashud b Enamul Haque	6	29	0	0	20.68
	B Lee	lbw b Mashrafe Mortaza	15	50	2	0	30.00
	JN Gillespie	b Mohammad Rafique	26	88	2	0	29.54
	SR Clark	lbw b Mohammad Rafique	0	20	0	0	0.00
	SCG MacGill	not out	0	5	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(lb 4, nb 1)	5
	Total	(all out; 95.2 overs)	269

Fall of wickets 1-6 (Hayden, 2.2 ov), 2-43 (Ponting, 11.3 ov), 3-50 (Martyn, 14.4 ov), 4-61 (Hussey, 24.2 ov), 5-79 (Clarke, 31.2 ov), 6-93 (Warne, 37.6 ov), 7-156 (Lee, 56.3 ov), 8-229 (Gillespie, 83.2 ov), 9-268 (Clark, 93.3 ov), 10-269 (Gilchrist, 95.2 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	Mashrafe Mortaza	22	3	56	2	2.54
	Shahadat Hossain	14	2	48	1	3.42
	Mohammad Rafique	32.2	9	62	5	1.91
	Enamul Haque jnr	25	4	83	2	3.31	(1nb)
	Mohammad Ashraful	1	0	11	0	11.00
	Rajin Saleh	1	0	5	0	5.00

Bangladesh 2nd innings			R	B	4s	6s	SR
	Javed Omar	c Gilchrist b Gillespie	18	21	2	0	85.71
	Shahriar Nafees	b Lee	33	38	7	0	86.84
	Habibul Bashar	run out (Clarke)	7	17	1	0	41.17
	Rajin Saleh	c Hayden b Gillespie	33	118	2	0	27.96
	Mohammad Ashraful	lbw b Clark	4	14	0	0	28.57
	Aftab Ahmed	lbw b MacGill	17	56	2	0	30.35
	Khaled Mashud	b Gillespie	0	11	0	0	0.00
	Mohammad Rafique	lbw b Warne	14	18	3	0	77.77
	Enamul Haque jnr	lbw b Warne	0	3	0	0	0.00
	Mashrafe Mortaza	b Warne	0	1	0	0	0.00
	Shahadat Hossain	not out	1	8	0	0	12.50
	Extras	(b 10, lb 7, nb 4)	21
	Total	(all out; 50 overs)	148

Fall of wickets 1-48 (Shahriar Nafees, 8.6 ov), 2-58 (Javed Omar, 11.1 ov), 3-67 (Habibul Bashar, 14.2 ov), 4-77 (Mohammad Ashraful, 18.6 ov), 5-124 (Aftab Ahmed, 38.2 ov), 6-128 (Khaled Mashud, 42.1 ov), 7-147 (Mohammad Rafique, 47.2 ov), 8-147 (Mashrafe Mortaza, 47.3 ov), 9-147 (Rajin Saleh, 48.4 ov), 10-148 (Enamul Haque, 49.6 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	B Lee	8	0	48	1	6.00	(2nb)
	JN Gillespie	11	4	18	3	1.63	(1nb)
	SCG MacGill	13	4	29	1	2.23
	SR Clark	4	2	8	1	2.00	(1nb)
	SK Warne	13	4	28	3	2.15
	MJ Clarke	1	1	0	0	0.00

Australia 2nd innings (target: 307 runs)			R	B	4s	6s	SR
	ML Hayden	run out (Enamul Haque)	72	152	8	1	47.36
	MEK Hussey	b Enamul Haque	37	79	4	0	46.83
	RT Ponting	not out	118	253	13	0	46.64
	DR Martyn	b Mohammad Rafique	7	19	0	0	36.84
	MJ Clarke	c Khaled Mashud b Mohammad Rafique	9	17	2	0	52.94
	AC Gilchrist	b Mohammad Rafique	12	18	1	0	66.66
	SK Warne	lbw b Mohammad Rafique	5	14	0	0	35.71
	B Lee	c Khaled Mashud b Mashrafe Mortaza	29	74	3	1	39.18
	JN Gillespie	not out	4	18	0	0	22.22
	Extras	(b 4, lb 7, w 1, nb 2)	14
	Total	(7 wickets; 107 overs)	307

To bat SR Clark, SCG MacGill

Fall of wickets 1-64 (Hussey, 25.1 ov), 2-173 (Hayden, 58.5 ov), 3-183 (Martyn, 65.5 ov), 4-205 (Clarke, 71.4 ov), 5-225 (Gilchrist, 77.5 ov), 6-231 (Warne, 81.2 ov), 7-277 (Lee, 99.6 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	Mashrafe Mortaza	22	7	51	1	2.31
	Shahadat Hossain	20	5	67	0	3.35	(1w)
	Mohammad Rafique	38	6	98	4	2.57
	Enamul Haque jnr	27	5	80	1	2.96	(2nb)

Main Scoreboard and Commentary


Toss Bangladesh, who chose to bat first

Player of the match tba

Umpires Aleem Dar (Pakistan) and Nadeem Ghauri (Pakistan)
TV umpire AFM Akhtaruddin
Match referee JJ Crowe (New Zealand)
Reserve umpire Nadir Shah

Close of play
day 1 - Bangladesh 1st innings 355/5 (Rajin Saleh 35*, Khaled Mashud 2*, 88 ov)
day 1 - Australia 1st innings 145/6 (AC Gilchrist 51*, B Lee 13*, 52 ov)
day 2 - Bangladesh 2nd innings 124/5 (Rajin Saleh 29*, Khaled Mashud 0*, 41 ov)
day 3 - Australia 2nd innings 212/4 (RT Ponting 72*, AC Gilchrist 6*, 74 ov)

[listening to: Wish You Well (live) - Bernard Fanning ]
5:12:21 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests

I was driving to work this morning in my Audi and it felt really really rough.

The car made weird noises, it vibrated as I was driving, it had a horrible idle, it laboured as I accelerated. It just didn't feel right.

I called the good people at Scotts Audi and described the symptoms. The dude seemed like he had seen this problem before and told me to take the car into the Service Center asap.

I dropped the car off. The guy said that it was "misfiring". Hmmm, something to do with the spark plugs maybe?

The dude had also mentioned Coil Packs. Hmmm - what's that? I did a search and found the following

What are coil packs? A coil pack sits on top of each cylinder of the engine and serves as the ignition coil to fire the cylinder. Coil packs have been used for a number of years and by a number of different manufacturers.

Makes sense. Definitly related to the spark plugs.

Reading the info on that site was a bit of a worry. I spent the morning fretting about my little 4 wheeled friend..

The guys called me back a bit after midday with good news. It indeed was a failed Coil Pack and now it's fixed.

Cost to Frank = $0

w00t! Gotta love warranty work! 

[listening to: Gold Digger - Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx ]
9:33:29 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests

A semi regular post showing my LinkedIn Network stats. Last time I did this was back in February

My Network of Trusted Professionals

You are at the center of your network. Your connections can introduce you to 1,205,500+ professionals - here’s how your network breaks down:
Your Connections Your trusted friends and colleagues	184
Two degrees away Friends of friends; each connected to one of your connections	46,600+
Three degrees away Reach these users through a friend and one of their friends	1,158,700+
Total users you can contact through an Introduction	1,205,500+

18,959 new people in your network since April 4

[listening to: Girl - Beck ]
4:51:40 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Geek • My Interests

It's movie weekend.

I took the little ones to see Ice Age 2 : The Meltdown this morning.

The best time to see a kids movie is 10am on a Sunday - the car park is empty, there's no one around, and the theatre is practically empty. bliss

The kids sat throught it all and left happy (maybe it was the toys that kept them happy).

We reckon this movie was just as good as the first. Even the SMH agrees.

There was even a message about Global Warming, which even Bricey understood.

[listening to: Greetings From A Dead Man - Eurythmics ]
4:44:47 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Family • My Interests

I took the boys to see V for Vendetta today.  It's excellent and The SMH says "The most astonishing movie to come from a major studio in a long time"

This entry in wikipedia sums the movie up:

V for Vendetta is a 2006 film set in a futuristic London, and follows V, a freedom fighter, who uses terrorist tactics in pursuit of both a personal vendetta and sociopolitical change in a dystopian future Britain.

We're just suckers for a dystopian themed movie!

There's so much to the movie, but the thing that stuck in my mind is it's really clever. Check out this piece of dialog:

"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V." -- V's introduction to Evey

Wow!

And Natalie Portman gets her head shaved

[listening to: Space Rocks Keep Falling on My Head - Away With The Fairys ]
8:34:00 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Family • My Interests