Sportus interruptus

Sportus interruptus: Three miles from the finish, the leader in the men's marathon was knocked to the ground by a spectator and was subsequently passed by two runners. The attacker has attempted similar stunts at other events to promote his apocalyptic religious books.

Sports · 2004/08/29 · Comment · Link

The Too-Much-Information Age?

A longtime Jacksonville weblogger normally devoted to wonky subjects like his blogging software made a frank public admission on his weblog recently: "I had an affair with another woman. My wife was a severe depressive and I was uncaring and unfeeling towards her when she needed me the most."

Metafilter · 2004/07/29 · Comment · Link

Famous anus

Famous anus:: In sports world medical news reminiscent of George Brett's hemorrhoidal issue during the 1980 World Series, an exhausted Jason Giambi is being tested for entamoeba histolytica, a parasite that embeds itself in the intestinal lining and can cause fatal illness.

Sports · 2004/07/26 · Comment · Link

Blame Canada

Blame Canada: Calling the conflict in Iraq the "stupidest war ever," Toronto Blue Jays player Carlos Delgado has been avoiding "God Bless America" during games.

Sports · 2004/07/22 · Comment · Link

Why bullfighting sucks

Why bullfighting sucks: "When I first came to Spain I had this idea that bull fighting was this sort of 'traditional' sport where once a year or so they would kill a bull or two and that it was okay," writes the American weblogger Russell Beattie. "But it's not like that at all."

Sports · 2004/07/18 · 12 COMMENTS · Link

Federer high on grass

Federer high on grass: The Guardian offers a flowery recap of Sunday's men's final at Wimbledon. "If the real Roger Federer did not return in his full peacock colours, there was enough iridescence glinting off his racket to down [Andy] Roddick."

Sports · 2004/07/05 · Comment · Link

Sending E-mail from Manila Weblogs

With the help of the Electric Dirt Farmer, I found and resolved an issue that prevented a few webloggers on Buzzword.Com from requesting their account passwords.

Manila users can receive a forgotten password in e-mail by filling out the weblog's login page with an e-mail address and no password. If there's an account at that address, the password will be e-mailed.

Manila sends password reminders and other e-mail from the weblog's E-mail Confirmation Sender setting. To see this sender address, log in to the weblog, click the Prefs link, then click the Confirmation link.

The address should take the form username@domain, as in rcade@example.com. Although you can specify addresses in other forms with many e-mail clients, when receiving outgoing e-mail from Manila, a Windows 2000 server's outgoing SMTP service rejects addresses like these:

• "John Q. Public <jqp@example.com>"
• "Jane Q. Public jane@example.com"

Because the problem can lock you out of a Manila weblog if you've lost the password, Manila webloggers ought to make sure it has been set correctly.

Manila · 2004/07/05 · Comment · Link

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