Monthly ArchiveMay 2006
blog & soccer Miguel on 28 May 2006
Bono’s ESPN World Cup commercials
U2’s Bono & The Edge made a bunch of commercials for ESPN’s coverage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Sick days (Beautiful Day):
City of Blinding Lights is going to be ESPN’s World Cup song:
Ivory Coast (”Where The Streets Have No Name”):
My favourite: Scotland Didn’t Make the World Cup (”I Will Follow”):
blog & soccer Miguel on 19 May 2006
World Cup 2006 Spreadsheet
For those of you following it, here’s an Excel spreadsheet you can use to track the World Cup 2006.
It’s in Spanish, but since we’re all “Dora the Explorer” fans, I’m sure we won’t have any trouble with it.
It’s neat, because you can fill in the results, and follow the groups and playoffs.
blog Miguel on 19 May 2006
Three video clips from Hartley Bay
I’m in Hartley Bay right now. Here are three short video clips I took yesterday.
The first video is our landing in Hartley Bay. We flew out in a small floatplane. It was a scenic flight.
Jit and I are very lucky that we have amazing hosts who just happened to take us fishing yesterday evening. We saw whales and bears:
blog & photography & travel Miguel on 15 May 2006
Praia de Mira, colour or no?
Which is the better photo?
Praia de Mira, Portugal, in colour. (click for larger version)
Praia de Mira, Portugal, in B&W. (click for larger version)
Unfortunately these are crappy small resolution jpegs. The original full-resolution uncompressed versions are better. But I can’t decide between colour or B&W.