Add Placement Rotator Script For Bloggers

Add Banner Placement rotator,what many bloggers want today in there blogs,many readers asked me for this script but was not able to provide them with the script because it is only available for php users and we blogspot users are not able to use it as we can use only javascript codes,You would have seen all hosted blogs using this add rotator placement feature.

What exactly it is?
You would have seen in many biggie blogs the rotation of add placements in clockwise or anticlockwise direction moving from top to bottom that changes on each page impression of that blog i.e adds interchange there loacation with each other on each new page impression.It is done so as each advertiser who spend thousand Dollars can get equally add placement in blog and equal exposure at top.

For demo of this widget visit my sidebar adds changing position on each page impression on my this demo blog of Blogger Widgets.

As still this rotator i am going to tell you about is working on php,but i found an open source program that help us to provides and submit our adds to it and will provide php link for your widget embeded within javscript codes which you can use in your blogs.

Stepwise explaination on how to make it:-

I am holding this tutorial keeping in mind the features i have in my demo widget i shown you above for 4 advertisers and each given 100 percent weightage.

Step1.Go to Rotatee.com

Step 2.Then Click On the Link Demo which is rotatee.com/demo.php

Step 3.Now at the bottom of the page you will be given one link to sign in with username and password .Just click the link and enter username and password to sign in.

Below is the sign in page with username and password

Demo URL : http://rotatee.com/demo/
Username : demo
Password : demo

Step 4.Now got to bottom of the page and click on Create New Campaign.You will be asked for your name fill it and press Enter.And your name will be added in the list.

Step 5.Now find your name in the list as it will be the last one then click on your name.You will be directed to a different page and will ask you create an ADD Banner.Click on that link.

You will be shown the pop up window like this below.

Step 6.Now put any Name in the form or i suggest to put the 1st advertiser name.Then the Weight. Put it to 100 as per requirement of my demo widget,It is to tell percentage of times you want to see that add to be shown out of total page impressions,i.e if your blog receives 4 page impressions and you have choosen weight as 25 it will be shown once.

And in codes write the link and image for your add like below.

<a href="http://anshuldudeja.blogspot.com" target="blank"><img src="http://entrecard.s3.amazonaws.com/eimage/84405.jpg"/></a>

Change the link and image with your advertisers.

And Now Save It.

Step 7.Now one of your advertiser has been added.Now again click Add Banner and add your second advertiser.Repeat this process upto 4 times(as i have 4 advertisers in my demo widget) .You can add to any number like 6 or 8 depend upon no of your advertisers.

Step 8.After adding all advertisers Click on Get Code.
You will be shown pop up window like this below.

Note**-Please dont forget to select all option as its shown in image above Show 1 banners at time.Make it to select all in drop down.And then copy codes from window.

Copy codes from there and paste it in your sidebar by clicking on Add a page element and add the codes to HTML/Javascript.

Great Feature in this free campaign you create.
1.You can also view all statistics related to all impressions your adds got ,under your campaign page.
2.You can do this rotation not only add banners but for text links and for any text too.

I hope now you would have no problem in installing this add rotator.Best of Luck !!

Add Placement Rotator Script For Bloggers

Add Banner Placement rotator,what many bloggers want today in there blogs,many readers asked me for this script but was not able to provide them with the script because it is only available for php users and we blogspot users are not able to use it as we can use only javascript codes,You would have seen all hosted blogs using this add rotator placement feature.

What exactly it is?
You would have seen in many biggie blogs the rotation of add placements in clockwise or anticlockwise direction moving from top to bottom that changes on each page impression of that blog i.e adds interchange there loacation with each other on each new page impression.It is done so as each advertiser who spend thousand Dollars can get equally add placement in blog and equal exposure at top.

For demo of this widget visit my sidebar adds changing position on each page impression on my this demo blog of Blogger Widgets.

As still this rotator i am going to tell you about is working on php,but i found an open source program that help us to provides and submit our adds to it and will provide php link for your widget embeded within javscript codes which you can use in your blogs.

Stepwise explaination on how to make it:-

I am holding this tutorial keeping in mind the features i have in my demo widget i shown you above for 4 advertisers and each given 100 percent weightage.

Step1.Go to Rotatee.com

Step 2.Then Click On the Link Demo which is rotatee.com/demo.php

Step 3.Now at the bottom of the page you will be given one link to sign in with username and password .Just click the link and enter username and password to sign in.

Below is the sign in page with username and password

Demo URL : http://rotatee.com/demo/
Username : demo
Password : demo

Step 4.Now got to bottom of the page and click on Create New Campaign.You will be asked for your name fill it and press Enter.And your name will be added in the list.

Step 5.Now find your name in the list as it will be the last one then click on your name.You will be directed to a different page and will ask you create an ADD Banner.Click on that link.

You will be shown the pop up window like this below.

Step 6.Now put any Name in the form or i suggest to put the 1st advertiser name.Then the Weight. Put it to 100 as per requirement of my demo widget,It is to tell percentage of times you want to see that add to be shown out of total page impressions,i.e if your blog receives 4 page impressions and you have choosen weight as 25 it will be shown once.

And in codes write the link and image for your add like below.

<a href="http://anshuldudeja.blogspot.com" target="blank"><img src="http://entrecard.s3.amazonaws.com/eimage/84405.jpg"/></a>

Change the link and image with your advertisers.

And Now Save It.

Step 7.Now one of your advertiser has been added.Now again click Add Banner and add your second advertiser.Repeat this process upto 4 times(as i have 4 advertisers in my demo widget) .You can add to any number like 6 or 8 depend upon no of your advertisers.

Step 8.After adding all advertisers Click on Get Code.
You will be shown pop up window like this below.

Note**-Please dont forget to select all option as its shown in image above Show 1 banners at time.Make it to select all in drop down.And then copy codes from window.

Copy codes from there and paste it in your sidebar by clicking on Add a page element and add the codes to HTML/Javascript.

Great Feature in this free campaign you create.
1.You can also view all statistics related to all impressions your adds got ,under your campaign page.
2.You can do this rotation not only add banners but for text links and for any text too.

I hope now you would have no problem in installing this add rotator.Best of Luck !!

Add Placement Rotator Script For Bloggers

Add Banner Placement rotator,what many bloggers want today in there blogs,many readers asked me for this script but was not able to provide them with the script because it is only available for php users and we blogspot users are not able to use it as we can use only javascript codes,You would have seen all hosted blogs using this add rotator placement feature.

What exactly it is?
You would have seen in many biggie blogs the rotation of add placements in clockwise or anticlockwise direction moving from top to bottom that changes on each page impression of that blog i.e adds interchange there loacation with each other on each new page impression.It is done so as each advertiser who spend thousand Dollars can get equally add placement in blog and equal exposure at top.

For demo of this widget visit my sidebar adds changing position on each page impression on my this demo blog of Blogger Widgets.

As still this rotator i am going to tell you about is working on php,but i found an open source program that help us to provides and submit our adds to it and will provide php link for your widget embeded within javscript codes which you can use in your blogs.

Stepwise explaination on how to make it:-

I am holding this tutorial keeping in mind the features i have in my demo widget i shown you above for 4 advertisers and each given 100 percent weightage.

Step1.Go to Rotatee.com

Step 2.Then Click On the Link Demo which is rotatee.com/demo.php

Step 3.Now at the bottom of the page you will be given one link to sign in with username and password .Just click the link and enter username and password to sign in.

Below is the sign in page with username and password

Demo URL : http://rotatee.com/demo/
Username : demo
Password : demo

Step 4.Now got to bottom of the page and click on Create New Campaign.You will be asked for your name fill it and press Enter.And your name will be added in the list.

Step 5.Now find your name in the list as it will be the last one then click on your name.You will be directed to a different page and will ask you create an ADD Banner.Click on that link.

You will be shown the pop up window like this below.

Step 6.Now put any Name in the form or i suggest to put the 1st advertiser name.Then the Weight. Put it to 100 as per requirement of my demo widget,It is to tell percentage of times you want to see that add to be shown out of total page impressions,i.e if your blog receives 4 page impressions and you have choosen weight as 25 it will be shown once.

And in codes write the link and image for your add like below.

<a href="http://anshuldudeja.blogspot.com" target="blank"><img src="http://entrecard.s3.amazonaws.com/eimage/84405.jpg"/></a>

Change the link and image with your advertisers.

And Now Save It.

Step 7.Now one of your advertiser has been added.Now again click Add Banner and add your second advertiser.Repeat this process upto 4 times(as i have 4 advertisers in my demo widget) .You can add to any number like 6 or 8 depend upon no of your advertisers.

Step 8.After adding all advertisers Click on Get Code.
You will be shown pop up window like this below.

Note**-Please dont forget to select all option as its shown in image above Show 1 banners at time.Make it to select all in drop down.And then copy codes from window.

Copy codes from there and paste it in your sidebar by clicking on Add a page element and add the codes to HTML/Javascript.

Great Feature in this free campaign you create.
1.You can also view all statistics related to all impressions your adds got ,under your campaign page.
2.You can do this rotation not only add banners but for text links and for any text too.

I hope now you would have no problem in installing this add rotator.Best of Luck !!

Pick the Mystery Player...

I've seen this elsewhere so I figured I would use this method to get up on my soapbox...

Which outfielder would you choose? Neither has more than 300 big league at bats. Their minor league stats:

Player    AVG   OBP   SLG   OPS
Player A .282  .348  .430  .778
Player B .299  .355  .470  .825
 

Player B has a significant advantage in OPS, mostly from his slugging percentage. Now, just imagine that Player B is three years younger than player B. Who would you choose?

Now, over the course of 50 at bats in Spring Training, Player A outplays Player B by a significant margin. Would that change your decision?

If you haven't yet guessed, Player A is Lou Montanez and Player B is Felix Pie. I can't believe any rational person would've selected Player A, regardless of the Spring Training stats. Especially when you factor in that Pie has more than 1000 ABs at AAA while Montanez has less than 500.

Everybody calm down...and send Montanez to Norfolk.

(edit: Looks like the front office has some sense when it comes to this issue...thank God.)


Now let's look at some pitchers. All have less than 90 innings of big league experience. Their minor league stats:

Player     ERA  WHIP  K/9  BB/9  HR/9
Player A  4.18  1.30  6.0  3.0   0.7
Player B  3.87  1.30  8.0  3.0   0.8
Player C  5.04  1.46  6.7  3.0   1.1

 

Now based on these numbers alone, you would probably rank Player B at the top narrowly over Player A. But it is clear that you would rank Player C at the bottom by any stat listed here.

Now consider their ages. Player B is the youngest with Player A three years older and Player C 4 years older. Now how are they ranked?

Now consider that Player C has outperformed the other two players over less than 20 innings in Spring Training. Does that change your opinion?

Player A is Brian Bass. Player B is Hayden Penn. Player C is...Alfredo Simon. Does he still look like the best option for a back of the rotation starter.

I say no. Off to Norfolk with Simon too.

Just a little food for thought...

How Recover Deleted Data From Your Computer

Rcover your data from your computer if it get deleted.Have you ever experienced that your files are deleted incidentally? What do you usually do to recover your files? I think if you do not know the way to recover your deleted files, you will rewrite your works then save them in your folder.However, if your manual data is too a lot, can you still do that? If you can do that, how long will you finish your work? Well, readers, now the computer technology has grown up more and more.

Now you can recover it with an software.Just visit Munsoft.com.It is the ideal rescue package for those who have accidentally deleted files, emptied the Recycle Bin, or even reformatted a disk or flash drive containing important data. The software is designed specifically to help recover deleted files. Operation is simple—just select the folders or disks where the deleted files were located and Easy File Undelete software operates to recover deleted files. Deleted files can also be recovered from SmartMedia, Secure Digital, Compact Flash, MemoryStick, ZIP, USB hard drives or other media with NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16 file systems.

It also provides photorecovery and mail recovery software.

How Recover Deleted Data From Your Computer

Rcover your data from your computer if it get deleted.Have you ever experienced that your files are deleted incidentally? What do you usually do to recover your files? I think if you do not know the way to recover your deleted files, you will rewrite your works then save them in your folder.However, if your manual data is too a lot, can you still do that? If you can do that, how long will you finish your work? Well, readers, now the computer technology has grown up more and more.

Now you can recover it with an software.Just visit Munsoft.com.It is the ideal rescue package for those who have accidentally deleted files, emptied the Recycle Bin, or even reformatted a disk or flash drive containing important data. The software is designed specifically to help recover deleted files. Operation is simple—just select the folders or disks where the deleted files were located and Easy File Undelete software operates to recover deleted files. Deleted files can also be recovered from SmartMedia, Secure Digital, Compact Flash, MemoryStick, ZIP, USB hard drives or other media with NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16 file systems.

It also provides photorecovery and mail recovery software.

How Recover Deleted Data From Your Computer

Rcover your data from your computer if it get deleted.Have you ever experienced that your files are deleted incidentally? What do you usually do to recover your files? I think if you do not know the way to recover your deleted files, you will rewrite your works then save them in your folder.However, if your manual data is too a lot, can you still do that? If you can do that, how long will you finish your work? Well, readers, now the computer technology has grown up more and more.

Now you can recover it with an software.Just visit Munsoft.com.It is the ideal rescue package for those who have accidentally deleted files, emptied the Recycle Bin, or even reformatted a disk or flash drive containing important data. The software is designed specifically to help recover deleted files. Operation is simple—just select the folders or disks where the deleted files were located and Easy File Undelete software operates to recover deleted files. Deleted files can also be recovered from SmartMedia, Secure Digital, Compact Flash, MemoryStick, ZIP, USB hard drives or other media with NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16 file systems.

It also provides photorecovery and mail recovery software.

Red & Gold Letterpress invitations by New York wedding invitations designer Lela New York

Hello Everyone!

Here are those beautiful red and gold letterpress invitations designed by Lela New York from last weeks inspiration board.
The custom wedding invitations were designed using the bride's Italian castle theme. This destination wedding in Italy required the wedding invitation to be bilingual. Lela New York designed one side of these unique letterpress invitations in Italian and the other in English.
The result was a unique introduction to their big day!

Forget Who Will Make the Rotation...Who Should?

I think I've (unsuccessfully) taken a few guesses about who would be in the final rotation. But who actually should be in the Opening Day rotation? Glad you asked...

Raise your hand if you honestly believe the Orioles can win this season? Yeah , me neither. So unlike most teams, this is not just a matter of picking pitchers who give the team the best chance to win. It goes deeper than that.

It should be three levels of criteria:

1) Pitchers who give you team the best chance to win.
2) Pitchers with upside who may or may not be ready for the majors but are out of minor league options.
3) Pitcher who can be used as cannon fodder, eating some innings for a couple months while better options can be found without resorting to rushing young arms to the majors.

The team has basically exhausted the first piece of criteria with Jeremy Guthrie and Koji Uehara. These two can reasonable be expected to go out and compete on a regular basis.

Now there are five pitchers remaining for the three spots left in the rotation: Hayden Penn, Brian Bass, Mark Hendrickson, Adam Eaton and Alfredo Simon.

Hayden Penn is covered with the second rule. He is only 24 but due to some mismanagement under previous regimes, he is out of minor league options. Penn was due to be called up a couple times over the last two seasons but untimely illness or injury spoiled those opportunities. Penn would be claimed if they tried to get him through waivers and quite frankly he hasn't pitched any worse than anybody else this spring. Stick him in as the number 5 pitcher and see if he can work it out. When Rich Hill comes back, move him to the bullpen. This guy still has value, it would be a shame to let him go before we've really given him a shot.

Now come the sacrificial lambs. The biggest mistake Andy MacPhail made this offseason was not offering Daniel Cabrera arbitration. He would've given the team more than 170 innings and probably would have been better than any of the guys we have in camp.

So in lieu of Cabrera, Adam Eaton and Mark Hendrickson fit the bill. These guys have the best shot at remaining effective enough in the rotation that they will last 2 months or more on the front lines. If they can hang in there, Rich Hill may return and be effective, Brad Bergesen and\or David Hernandez may tear up AAA and earn a promotion...these guys are there to buy the club some time until better options are ready. I think they can do it, at least as well as Garrett Olson and Radhames Liz did last season.

Brian Bass is a Brian Burress type, best when utilized as a swingman out of the bullpen and that's a best case scenario.

Quick quiz: When was the last time Alfredo Simon posted an ERA less than 6.00 at any level of professional baseball? That was in AA in 2005 when he posted a 5.03 ERA. I've refrained from bashing the guy since I've said repeatedly that the rotation's theme for 2009 should be "We take anybody." But this guy doesn't belong on anyone's radar for a major league job, not even the Orioles. He hasn't even had fluky Luis Hernandez success on any level. Cut him.

So the starting rotation for the Baltimore Orioles on April 6th should be:

Guthrie
Uehara
Eaton
Hendrickson
Penn

Anything else at this point wouldn't make a lot of sense.

How Increase/Strong Your Wi-Fi Signals Strength

How To Strengthen Your Wi-Fi Signals,i.e increase your wi-fi signals strength,make them strong to increase the speed of your internet.Then head over to the kitchen and grab a piece of shiny Aluminum foil that is normally used by mom for cooking or for wrapping sandwiches so that they stay fresh a little longer.Follow on this video tutorial to make it clear.

Or do it with the soda can or pepsi tin can.

How Increase/Strong Your Wi-Fi Signals Strength

How To Strengthen Your Wi-Fi Signals,i.e increase your wi-fi signals strength,make them strong to increase the speed of your internet.Then head over to the kitchen and grab a piece of shiny Aluminum foil that is normally used by mom for cooking or for wrapping sandwiches so that they stay fresh a little longer.Follow on this video tutorial to make it clear.

Or do it with the soda can or pepsi tin can.

How Increase/Strong Your Wi-Fi Signals Strength

How To Strengthen Your Wi-Fi Signals,i.e increase your wi-fi signals strength,make them strong to increase the speed of your internet.Then head over to the kitchen and grab a piece of shiny Aluminum foil that is normally used by mom for cooking or for wrapping sandwiches so that they stay fresh a little longer.Follow on this video tutorial to make it clear.

Or do it with the soda can or pepsi tin can.

How Highlight Authors Comments In Blogger Blogs

How to highlight the author comments in blogger,you would have seen many highlighted colours comments in blogger posts by author in many blogs.They are highligted to differentiate the comments of author and the readers and now you will be desperate to how to implement in your blog.Many templates have installed this hack in there blog if your blog doesn't have highlighted comments read on this post.

Login to your Dashboard > Layout > Edit Html.

Check the Expand Widget Templates Check Box.
Copy and paste the code below before the closing ]]></b:skin>

.comment-body-author {
background: #ffffff;
border: 2px solid #666666;
padding: 5px;
}

Change the line
background: #ffffff;
with
background: url(http://DIRECT_LINK_OF_THE_IMAGE.jpg) ;
If you want to show any background image in place of white color.

Next, search for the following lines of code.

<dl id='comments-block'>
<b:loop values='data:post.comments' var='comment'>
<dt class='comment-author' expr:id='"comment-" + data:comment.id'>
<a expr:name='"comment-" + data:comment.id'/>
<b:if cond='data:comment.authorUrl'>
<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel='nofollow'><data:comment.author/></a>
<b:else/>
<data:comment.author/>
</b:if>
<data:commentPostedByMsg/>
</dt>

<b:if cond='data:comment.author == data:post.author'>
<dd class='comment-body-author'>
<p><data:comment.body/></p>
</dd>
<b:else/>

<dd class='comment-body'>
<b:if cond='data:comment.isDeleted'>
<span class='deleted-comment'><data:comment.body/></span>
<b:else/>
<p><data:comment.body/></p>
</b:if>
</dd>

</b:if>

<dd class='comment-footer'>
<span class='comment-timestamp'>
<a expr:href='"#comment-" + data:
comment.id' title='comment permalink'>
<data:comment.timestamp/>
</a>
<b:include data='comment' name='commentDeleteIcon'/>
</span>
</dd>
</b:loop>
</dl>

You have to add Red codes in your html in the way i have shown above between the codes.I hope you will be able to do it.

If you have any problem leave your comments below.Best of luck!

How Highlight Authors Comments In Blogger Blogs

How to highlight the author comments in blogger,you would have seen many highlighted colours comments in blogger posts by author in many blogs.They are highligted to differentiate the comments of author and the readers and now you will be desperate to how to implement in your blog.Many templates have installed this hack in there blog if your blog doesn't have highlighted comments read on this post.

Login to your Dashboard > Layout > Edit Html.

Check the Expand Widget Templates Check Box.
Copy and paste the code below before the closing ]]></b:skin>

.comment-body-author {
background: #ffffff;
border: 2px solid #666666;
padding: 5px;
}

Change the line
background: #ffffff;
with
background: url(http://DIRECT_LINK_OF_THE_IMAGE.jpg) ;
If you want to show any background image in place of white color.

Next, search for the following lines of code.

<dl id='comments-block'>
<b:loop values='data:post.comments' var='comment'>
<dt class='comment-author' expr:id='"comment-" + data:comment.id'>
<a expr:name='"comment-" + data:comment.id'/>
<b:if cond='data:comment.authorUrl'>
<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel='nofollow'><data:comment.author/></a>
<b:else/>
<data:comment.author/>
</b:if>
<data:commentPostedByMsg/>
</dt>

<b:if cond='data:comment.author == data:post.author'>
<dd class='comment-body-author'>
<p><data:comment.body/></p>
</dd>
<b:else/>

<dd class='comment-body'>
<b:if cond='data:comment.isDeleted'>
<span class='deleted-comment'><data:comment.body/></span>
<b:else/>
<p><data:comment.body/></p>
</b:if>
</dd>

</b:if>

<dd class='comment-footer'>
<span class='comment-timestamp'>
<a expr:href='"#comment-" + data:
comment.id' title='comment permalink'>
<data:comment.timestamp/>
</a>
<b:include data='comment' name='commentDeleteIcon'/>
</span>
</dd>
</b:loop>
</dl>

You have to add Red codes in your html in the way i have shown above between the codes.I hope you will be able to do it.

If you have any problem leave your comments below.Best of luck!

How Highlight Authors Comments In Blogger Blogs

How to highlight the author comments in blogger,you would have seen many highlighted colours comments in blogger posts by author in many blogs.They are highligted to differentiate the comments of author and the readers and now you will be desperate to how to implement in your blog.Many templates have installed this hack in there blog if your blog doesn't have highlighted comments read on this post.

Login to your Dashboard > Layout > Edit Html.

Check the Expand Widget Templates Check Box.
Copy and paste the code below before the closing ]]></b:skin>

.comment-body-author {
background: #ffffff;
border: 2px solid #666666;
padding: 5px;
}

Change the line
background: #ffffff;
with
background: url(http://DIRECT_LINK_OF_THE_IMAGE.jpg) ;
If you want to show any background image in place of white color.

Next, search for the following lines of code.

<dl id='comments-block'>
<b:loop values='data:post.comments' var='comment'>
<dt class='comment-author' expr:id='"comment-" + data:comment.id'>
<a expr:name='"comment-" + data:comment.id'/>
<b:if cond='data:comment.authorUrl'>
<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel='nofollow'><data:comment.author/></a>
<b:else/>
<data:comment.author/>
</b:if>
<data:commentPostedByMsg/>
</dt>

<b:if cond='data:comment.author == data:post.author'>
<dd class='comment-body-author'>
<p><data:comment.body/></p>
</dd>
<b:else/>

<dd class='comment-body'>
<b:if cond='data:comment.isDeleted'>
<span class='deleted-comment'><data:comment.body/></span>
<b:else/>
<p><data:comment.body/></p>
</b:if>
</dd>

</b:if>

<dd class='comment-footer'>
<span class='comment-timestamp'>
<a expr:href='"#comment-" + data:
comment.id' title='comment permalink'>
<data:comment.timestamp/>
</a>
<b:include data='comment' name='commentDeleteIcon'/>
</span>
</dd>
</b:loop>
</dl>

You have to add Red codes in your html in the way i have shown above between the codes.I hope you will be able to do it.

If you have any problem leave your comments below.Best of luck!

Online UDC courses - in Spanish and Swedish

Of interest to Spanish and Swedish speaking colleagues...

Miguel Benito, the driving force behind and the editor of the Swedish/Spanish/Finish UDC schedules online has now also created an online UDC and Dewey course using Moodle.

This is certainly a very welcome development. I wonder, however, how do potential participants find out about the content and course programme, goals, duration and

Online UDC courses - in Spanish and Swedish

Of interest to Spanish and Swedish speaking colleagues...

Miguel Benito, the driving force behind and the editor of the Swedish/Spanish/Finish UDC schedules online has now also created an online UDC and Dewey course using Moodle.

This is certainly a very welcome development. I wonder, however, how do potential participants find out about the content and course programme, goals, duration and

Tips Make Slower Internet Connection Browse Faster

IF your internet connection is slow because your service provider cant't provide much speed or you are in any rural area and you want to make your web browse faster then before,then it cannot be made to run as fast internet connection,but can be made to browse web for fast as of before for sure.Just follow some tips and make your connection fast then before.

1. Increase the size of your browser cache. If the static parts of a site (like background graphics, CSS, etc) are stored in the local cache, your browser can safely skip downloading these files when you re-visit the site in future thus improving speed.

2. Turn off web images, the Adobe Flash plug-in, Java Applets and JavaScript from your browser settings as these files are often the bulkiest elements of any web page.

3. The Google Transcoder service at google.com/gwt/n can split large web pages into smaller chunks that will download more quickly on your computer.

4.Monitor your Internet speed to determine hours when you get the maximum download speed from the ISP. Maybe you can then change your surfing schedule a bit and browse more during these "off peak" hours.

5. Finch can serve a light-weight version of any website in real-time that is free of all bells and whistles. For instance, the New York Times homepage with all external resources can weigh more than a MB but Finch trims down the size by 90% so the site loads more quickly on a slow web connection.

6. Flinch (mentioned at #4) is good for reading regular websites but if you just need to check the latest articles published on your favorite blogs, use BareSite. This service will automatically detect the associated feed of a website and render content quickly inside a minimalist interface.


7.You can use a text browser like Lynx or Elinks for even faster browsing. It downloads only the HTML version of web pages thus reducing the overall bandwidth required to render websites.

8. When searching for web pages on Google, you can click the "Cache" link to view the text version of a web page stored in the Google Cache. Alternatively, install this GM script as it adds a "cached text only" link near every "Cached" link on Google Search pages.

9. Move your web activities offline as far as possible. You can send & receive emails, write blogs and even read feeds in an offline environment.

10. Applying the same logic, you may also consider using tools like Web In Mail or Email The Web as they help you browse websites via email. Just put the URL of a page (e.g., cnn.com) in the subject field of your email message and these services will send you the actual page in the reply.

11. Bookmarklets are like shortcuts to your favorite web services. You neither have to open the Gmail Inbox for composing a new email message nor do you have to visit Google Translate for translating a paragraph of text. Add relevant bookmarklets to your browser bar and reduce the number of steps required to accomplish a task.

12. Use the netstat command to determine processes, other than web browsers, that may be secretly connecting to Internet in the background. Some of these processes could be consuming precious bandwidth but you can block them using the Firewall.

13. Use URL Snooper to determine non-essential host names that a website is trying to connect while downloading a web page. You may block them in future via the Adblock Plus to filter out advertising banners on web pages.

14. If you don’t want to spoil your web surfing experience by stripping images and other graphic elements from a web page, get Opera Turbo. It will first fetch the requested web page on to its own server and then send it to your machine in a compressed format. Opera Turbo won’t change the layout of a web site but can lower the image resolution so that they load faster on slow Internet.

Source:-labnol

Tips Make Slower Internet Connection Browse Faster

IF your internet connection is slow because your service provider cant't provide much speed or you are in any rural area and you want to make your web browse faster then before,then it cannot be made to run as fast internet connection,but can be made to browse web for fast as of before for sure.Just follow some tips and make your connection fast then before.

1. Increase the size of your browser cache. If the static parts of a site (like background graphics, CSS, etc) are stored in the local cache, your browser can safely skip downloading these files when you re-visit the site in future thus improving speed.

2. Turn off web images, the Adobe Flash plug-in, Java Applets and JavaScript from your browser settings as these files are often the bulkiest elements of any web page.

3. The Google Transcoder service at google.com/gwt/n can split large web pages into smaller chunks that will download more quickly on your computer.

4.Monitor your Internet speed to determine hours when you get the maximum download speed from the ISP. Maybe you can then change your surfing schedule a bit and browse more during these "off peak" hours.

5. Finch can serve a light-weight version of any website in real-time that is free of all bells and whistles. For instance, the New York Times homepage with all external resources can weigh more than a MB but Finch trims down the size by 90% so the site loads more quickly on a slow web connection.

6. Flinch (mentioned at #4) is good for reading regular websites but if you just need to check the latest articles published on your favorite blogs, use BareSite. This service will automatically detect the associated feed of a website and render content quickly inside a minimalist interface.


7.You can use a text browser like Lynx or Elinks for even faster browsing. It downloads only the HTML version of web pages thus reducing the overall bandwidth required to render websites.

8. When searching for web pages on Google, you can click the "Cache" link to view the text version of a web page stored in the Google Cache. Alternatively, install this GM script as it adds a "cached text only" link near every "Cached" link on Google Search pages.

9. Move your web activities offline as far as possible. You can send & receive emails, write blogs and even read feeds in an offline environment.

10. Applying the same logic, you may also consider using tools like Web In Mail or Email The Web as they help you browse websites via email. Just put the URL of a page (e.g., cnn.com) in the subject field of your email message and these services will send you the actual page in the reply.

11. Bookmarklets are like shortcuts to your favorite web services. You neither have to open the Gmail Inbox for composing a new email message nor do you have to visit Google Translate for translating a paragraph of text. Add relevant bookmarklets to your browser bar and reduce the number of steps required to accomplish a task.

12. Use the netstat command to determine processes, other than web browsers, that may be secretly connecting to Internet in the background. Some of these processes could be consuming precious bandwidth but you can block them using the Firewall.

13. Use URL Snooper to determine non-essential host names that a website is trying to connect while downloading a web page. You may block them in future via the Adblock Plus to filter out advertising banners on web pages.

14. If you don’t want to spoil your web surfing experience by stripping images and other graphic elements from a web page, get Opera Turbo. It will first fetch the requested web page on to its own server and then send it to your machine in a compressed format. Opera Turbo won’t change the layout of a web site but can lower the image resolution so that they load faster on slow Internet.

Source:-labnol

Tips Make Slower Internet Connection Browse Faster

IF your internet connection is slow because your service provider cant't provide much speed or you are in any rural area and you want to make your web browse faster then before,then it cannot be made to run as fast internet connection,but can be made to browse web for fast as of before for sure.Just follow some tips and make your connection fast then before.

1. Increase the size of your browser cache. If the static parts of a site (like background graphics, CSS, etc) are stored in the local cache, your browser can safely skip downloading these files when you re-visit the site in future thus improving speed.

2. Turn off web images, the Adobe Flash plug-in, Java Applets and JavaScript from your browser settings as these files are often the bulkiest elements of any web page.

3. The Google Transcoder service at google.com/gwt/n can split large web pages into smaller chunks that will download more quickly on your computer.

4.Monitor your Internet speed to determine hours when you get the maximum download speed from the ISP. Maybe you can then change your surfing schedule a bit and browse more during these "off peak" hours.

5. Finch can serve a light-weight version of any website in real-time that is free of all bells and whistles. For instance, the New York Times homepage with all external resources can weigh more than a MB but Finch trims down the size by 90% so the site loads more quickly on a slow web connection.

6. Flinch (mentioned at #4) is good for reading regular websites but if you just need to check the latest articles published on your favorite blogs, use BareSite. This service will automatically detect the associated feed of a website and render content quickly inside a minimalist interface.


7.You can use a text browser like Lynx or Elinks for even faster browsing. It downloads only the HTML version of web pages thus reducing the overall bandwidth required to render websites.

8. When searching for web pages on Google, you can click the "Cache" link to view the text version of a web page stored in the Google Cache. Alternatively, install this GM script as it adds a "cached text only" link near every "Cached" link on Google Search pages.

9. Move your web activities offline as far as possible. You can send & receive emails, write blogs and even read feeds in an offline environment.

10. Applying the same logic, you may also consider using tools like Web In Mail or Email The Web as they help you browse websites via email. Just put the URL of a page (e.g., cnn.com) in the subject field of your email message and these services will send you the actual page in the reply.

11. Bookmarklets are like shortcuts to your favorite web services. You neither have to open the Gmail Inbox for composing a new email message nor do you have to visit Google Translate for translating a paragraph of text. Add relevant bookmarklets to your browser bar and reduce the number of steps required to accomplish a task.

12. Use the netstat command to determine processes, other than web browsers, that may be secretly connecting to Internet in the background. Some of these processes could be consuming precious bandwidth but you can block them using the Firewall.

13. Use URL Snooper to determine non-essential host names that a website is trying to connect while downloading a web page. You may block them in future via the Adblock Plus to filter out advertising banners on web pages.

14. If you don’t want to spoil your web surfing experience by stripping images and other graphic elements from a web page, get Opera Turbo. It will first fetch the requested web page on to its own server and then send it to your machine in a compressed format. Opera Turbo won’t change the layout of a web site but can lower the image resolution so that they load faster on slow Internet.

Source:-labnol

New UDC Licence Scheme

In February 2009, a new UDC licence scheme and new prices have been approved by the UDC Consortium.

There are two main categories of licences: publishing and licences for UDC MRF use.

For many existing and prospective UDC users it is important to understand that they do not need licence if they
apply UDC schedule content for information and knowledge organization from a copy of a

New UDC Licence Scheme

In February 2009, a new UDC licence scheme and new prices have been approved by the UDC Consortium.

There are two main categories of licences: publishing and licences for UDC MRF use.

For many existing and prospective UDC users it is important to understand that they do not need licence if they
apply UDC schedule content for information and knowledge organization from a copy of a

How Add Google News Widget To Blogger

Google news widget in your blog,i am sure you will like this widget by google as you can display any news on any hot topic you want to be displayed on your blog for your readers or supporting the niche of the blog.Just the thing you have to do is select the topic for which you want the latest news or give some tags to them to show of your related news and then select the size and liitle bit cusomizations so as to make it fit in your blog.

If you want latest news to be get displayed in your blog as i would like to get displayed latest news on all blogger news related to widgets hacks,tips and tricks to be flashed as i used it below.

Just visit here and customize it according to your blog wants and get the codes.

Then login to blogger go to Layout > Page Element > Add Page Element > Html/Javascript

And paste the codes there and save it.

How Add Google News Widget To Blogger

Google news widget in your blog,i am sure you will like this widget by google as you can display any news on any hot topic you want to be displayed on your blog for your readers or supporting the niche of the blog.Just the thing you have to do is select the topic for which you want the latest news or give some tags to them to show of your related news and then select the size and liitle bit cusomizations so as to make it fit in your blog.

If you want latest news to be get displayed in your blog as i would like to get displayed latest news on all blogger news related to widgets hacks,tips and tricks to be flashed as i used it below.

Just visit here and customize it according to your blog wants and get the codes.

Then login to blogger go to Layout > Page Element > Add Page Element > Html/Javascript

And paste the codes there and save it.

How Add Google News Widget To Blogger

Google news widget in your blog,i am sure you will like this widget by google as you can display any news on any hot topic you want to be displayed on your blog for your readers or supporting the niche of the blog.Just the thing you have to do is select the topic for which you want the latest news or give some tags to them to show of your related news and then select the size and liitle bit cusomizations so as to make it fit in your blog.

If you want latest news to be get displayed in your blog as i would like to get displayed latest news on all blogger news related to widgets hacks,tips and tricks to be flashed as i used it below.

Just visit here and customize it according to your blog wants and get the codes.

Then login to blogger go to Layout > Page Element > Add Page Element > Html/Javascript

And paste the codes there and save it.

Orioles in Asheville

We're still waiting for the season to start so I figured I'd share this little nugget as filler while there's a lull in the action...

I was up near Asheville, NC doing some hiking this past January and I headed into Asheville for some food and a beer run. I was cruising around, took a wrong turn and ended up out by McCormick Field where the Asheville Tourists play and where Crash Davis finished up his baseball career.

Anyway, I pulled in to take a look and the whole place was plastered with Orioles:

So there's Cal Sr., Cal, Jr., and Billy Ripken up top and there's Eddie Murray on the office door. What's the connection?

Evidently, Asheville was an Oriole farm club for a short time in the early 1970's. Eddie Murray played for Asheville in 1975 hitting .264 with 17 home runs at the tender age of 19. Cal Ripken, Sr. was a coach in Asheville in 1972.

However, connecting Billy and Cal Jr. to the 1972 Asheville Tourists is a bit sketchy. Cal, Jr. was 12 and Billy was 8 at the time. I'm sure they were on the field, shagging flies during batting practice or serving as batboys...but that's a huge stretch to claim the Ripken boys as part of the Asheville Tourist heritage.

And here's a banner with an interesting juxtaposition; a young Eddie Murray and a very young Willie Stargell who faced off against each other during the 1979 World Series.

By the way, when in Asheville, visit Bruisin' Ales for all your beery needs.

How Create Image Hover Effect In Blogger

Image hover effect in blogger,as this is very easy trick to be performed and used by many of pro blogers too.When you move your cursor to any of the image the hover effect over it takes place and its view is more clear then before.I love using this hack.Its just small css trick that is done by adding styling to your blog css and define its class while using your image url in blog posts.

How to make image hover over effect.

Log in to Blogger Then Got To

Blogger LAYOUT > Edit Html > Press Ctrl+F

Search For </head>

And place the below css above it

<style type="text/css">

a.linkopacity img {
filter:alpha(opacity=50);
-moz-opacity: 0.5;
opacity: 0.5;
-khtml-opacity: 0.5;}


a.linkopacity:hover img {
filter:alpha(opacity=100);
-moz-opacity: 1.0;
opacity: 1.0;
-khtml-opacity: 1.0; }

</style>

Now save the Template.

Now whenever you embed your image in blog or blog posts you use codes like below.

You use green codes like below in your blogs for images.

<a href="http://anshuldudeja.blogspot.com" target="_blank" alt="Blogger Widgets"><img src="http://img2.pict.com/aa/ae/97/16680dfb7c10435cbefea4aa04/4OXiK/geneliadsouzawallpaperspicturesd.jpg"/></a>

Use below blue code in place of above green code to have hover effect.

<a class="linkopacity" href="http://anshuldudeja.blogspot.com" target="_blank" alt="Blogger Widget"><img src="http://img2.pict.com/aa/ae/97/16680dfb7c10435cbefea4aa04/4OXiK/geneliadsouzawallpaperspicturesd.jpg" /></a>


Difference in both codes is just have i ahave added class=linkopacity in red in second code.

For Demo Of Image Hover Effect of two images visit Demo Blogger Widget Blog.

How Create Image Hover Effect In Blogger

Image hover effect in blogger,as this is very easy trick to be performed and used by many of pro blogers too.When you move your cursor to any of the image the hover effect over it takes place and its view is more clear then before.I love using this hack.Its just small css trick that is done by adding styling to your blog css and define its class while using your image url in blog posts.

How to make image hover over effect.

Log in to Blogger Then Got To

Blogger LAYOUT > Edit Html > Press Ctrl+F

Search For </head>

And place the below css above it

<style type="text/css">

a.linkopacity img {
filter:alpha(opacity=50);
-moz-opacity: 0.5;
opacity: 0.5;
-khtml-opacity: 0.5;}


a.linkopacity:hover img {
filter:alpha(opacity=100);
-moz-opacity: 1.0;
opacity: 1.0;
-khtml-opacity: 1.0; }

</style>

Now save the Template.

Now whenever you embed your image in blog or blog posts you use codes like below.

You use green codes like below in your blogs for images.

<a href="http://anshuldudeja.blogspot.com" target="_blank" alt="Blogger Widgets"><img src="http://img2.pict.com/aa/ae/97/16680dfb7c10435cbefea4aa04/4OXiK/geneliadsouzawallpaperspicturesd.jpg"/></a>

Use below blue code in place of above green code to have hover effect.

<a class="linkopacity" href="http://anshuldudeja.blogspot.com" target="_blank" alt="Blogger Widget"><img src="http://img2.pict.com/aa/ae/97/16680dfb7c10435cbefea4aa04/4OXiK/geneliadsouzawallpaperspicturesd.jpg" /></a>


Difference in both codes is just have i ahave added class=linkopacity in red in second code.

For Demo Of Image Hover Effect of two images visit Demo Blogger Widget Blog.

How Create Image Hover Effect In Blogger

Image hover effect in blogger,as this is very easy trick to be performed and used by many of pro blogers too.When you move your cursor to any of the image the hover effect over it takes place and its view is more clear then before.I love using this hack.Its just small css trick that is done by adding styling to your blog css and define its class while using your image url in blog posts.

How to make image hover over effect.

Log in to Blogger Then Got To

Blogger LAYOUT > Edit Html > Press Ctrl+F

Search For </head>

And place the below css above it

<style type="text/css">

a.linkopacity img {
filter:alpha(opacity=50);
-moz-opacity: 0.5;
opacity: 0.5;
-khtml-opacity: 0.5;}


a.linkopacity:hover img {
filter:alpha(opacity=100);
-moz-opacity: 1.0;
opacity: 1.0;
-khtml-opacity: 1.0; }

</style>

Now save the Template.

Now whenever you embed your image in blog or blog posts you use codes like below.

You use green codes like below in your blogs for images.

<a href="http://anshuldudeja.blogspot.com" target="_blank" alt="Blogger Widgets"><img src="http://img2.pict.com/aa/ae/97/16680dfb7c10435cbefea4aa04/4OXiK/geneliadsouzawallpaperspicturesd.jpg"/></a>

Use below blue code in place of above green code to have hover effect.

<a class="linkopacity" href="http://anshuldudeja.blogspot.com" target="_blank" alt="Blogger Widget"><img src="http://img2.pict.com/aa/ae/97/16680dfb7c10435cbefea4aa04/4OXiK/geneliadsouzawallpaperspicturesd.jpg" /></a>


Difference in both codes is just have i ahave added class=linkopacity in red in second code.

For Demo Of Image Hover Effect of two images visit Demo Blogger Widget Blog.

Base Hits: 3/25/2009

Shocked and saddened to learn of the untimely death of John Brattain whose work I enjoyed often over at The Hardball Times. Brattain was a diehard Blue Jays fan and I had the pleasure of e-mailing back and forth with him on occasion about AL East baseball. He was always funny, pleasant and opinionated.

My deepest sympathies to his family and friends. He will be missed.

*****

According to Roch Kubatko, David Pauley is out of the running for a spot in the rotation and Dave Trembley also seems pretty sure that Chris Waters will not make the rotation either. By my estimation, that leaves Brian Bass, Adam Eaton, Hayden Penn, Danys Baez, Alfredo Simon and Mark Hendrickson in competition for the last three rotation spots with Rich Hill waiting on the DL.

If I made a guess, I'd figure Hendrickson, Baez and Eaton make up the rotation on Opening Day.

(edit: Dave Trembley has eliminated Baez from the competition since I wrote this. Nice guess!)

*****

Hall of Famer George Kell has passed away at the age of 86. Kell finished up his career in Baltimore and played on the first modern Oriole team to finish at .500 or better in 1957.

Kell manned third base but slowly gave way as the season wore on to a 20-year old defensive wizard named Brooks Robinson...

*****

Maryland native Harold Baines has been elected to the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame.

It seemed like Baines always came through with the big hit when nobody else on the team was hitting. One of my favorites and clearly the best DH in Oriole history.

New York Wedding Salon 2009 with New York wedding invitation designer Lela New York

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An Excercise in Optimizing Lineups...

I'm stealing this idea from Beyond the Boxscore but I don' think they are in any hurry to do this exercise with the Orioles so I'll do it here.

It's all about optimizing lineups, getting the most bang for your buck out of the players that you have. I think batting order is very overrated when it comes to run production (I think Sky at BtB has said the same thing) but it is interesting to see how unorthodox a lineup can look and, theoretically, score more runs per game.

Like BtB, I'll be using the standards found in The Book: Playing The Percentages in Baseball as well as David Pinto's lineup tool found at Baseball Musings.

Here are the main players for the Oriole lineup and their CHONE projections for OBA and SLG for 2009:

                OBA   SLG
B. Roberts     .359  .423
M. Mora        .328  .414
N. Markakis    .376  .474
A. Huff        .354  .466
L. Scott       .352  .462
A. Jones       .337  .444
G. Zaun        .313  .355
F. Pie         .320  .407
C. Izturis     .287  .326

Using the rules, the first step is to identify the top three hitters on the team. For the Orioles, that projects to be Brian Roberts, Nick Markakis and Aubrey Huff. These guys will take up the top three spots in the lineup.

For leadoff, OBP is king. You also want the batter with the least power among those three elite hitters on the team. Speed is icing on the cake. Hello, Brian Roberts.

In the two hole, it's the best hitter between Huff and Markakis. This hitter comes to bat in more big situations than any other hitter in the lineup. #2 belongs to Nick.

Cleanup should be one of the best hitters on the team and the guy with power. This would be Huff. You could quibble that Markakis may have more raw power next season and you could swap the two without much argument from me. But Huff is #4 for now.

The next two best hitters on the team are Adam Jones and Luke Scott. More value is gained in the 5 slot with a batter who hits singles, doubles and triples rather than living and dying with the home run. Scott doesn't live and die with the homer but Jones is probably a more well-rounded hitter is this regard. Scott goes to #3 and Jones is #5.

Melvin Mora, Gregg Zaun, Felix Pie and Cesar Izturis are left. From here, the order goes from best hitter to worst with a caveat that if you have someone who can steal bases, they add some value in the 6 hole. Only Izturis is a fair stolen base threat at this point in his career but the bat is so bad that I don't think he will leverage that skill too often. Mora is the best of what's left, followed by Pie, Zaun and Izturis.

Your "optimized" 2009 Orioles lineup:

1 Roberts
2 Markakis
3 Scott
4 Huff
5 Jones
6 Mora
7 Pie
8 Zaun
9 Izturis

Plugging this information into the Lineup Optimization Tool, this lineup is estimated to score 4.885 runs per game. If you swap Huff and Markakis, the total is 4.879 so I was barely correct with Markakis in the 2 hole.

Pinto's best lineup? It scores 4.898 runs per game.

1 Roberts
2 Markakis
3 Jones
4 Huff
5 Scott
6 Pie
7 Zaun
8 Mora
9 Izturis

Mora and Pie, as well as Scott and Huff are interchangeable with the same production.

One wrinkle: what if we add Matt Wieters? Wieters' CHONE: .349 OBA and .439 SLG.

Wieters would fit in at the 5 slot and bump everybody down:


1. Roberts
2. Markakis
3. Scott
4. Huff
5. Wieters
6. Jones
7. Mora
8. Pie
9. Izturis


Just the addition of Wieters...brings the runs per game up to 5.031

Pinto adds this lineup for a runs per game of 5.041 moves Wieters to number three.

How about the run production for a "traditional" lineup?

1. Roberts
2. Mora
3. Markakis
4. Huff
5. Scott
6. Zaun
7. Jones
8. Pie
9. Izturis

This configuration gives you a runs per game of 4.857.

Swap Wieters in for Zaun in the 6 spot? That gets you 4.999 rns per game.

Difference in runs per game using The Book rules vs. the traditional approach: .028

The Book vs Pinto? Pinto wins by .013

The Book vs The Book with Wieters? Wieters improves the rate by .146 runs per game.

Traditional vs. Traditional with Wieters? Wieters adds .142 runs per game.

Conclusion? I would love to see a team try one of these non-traditional lineups sometime but as you can see, it matters little. I suppose it might let you win a game or two over the course of a season which could be a

But adding a better catcher? It improves jumps by at least a factor of 5.

So improving the actual members of the lineup means far more than the shuffling of said lineup. Go figure...

Five Things to Watch: Spring Training Update

Before Spring Training, I listed five things to watch while the O's were in Fort Lauderdale. Let's see what's happening...

1. Koji Uehara...What's Up With That?

Before he pulled a hammy, Uehara didn't look half bad. However, we haven't seen him in two weeks so the jury is out. He's supposed to pitch Tuesday...it'll be interesting to see how he fares against lineups with more major league regulars in them.

2. The Rotation...who will emerge?

We know much more now than we did in February but there is so much more unanswered. Radhames Liz, John Parrish, Brad Hennesey, Troy Patton and Brad Bergensen are all out of the running, either injured, sent to the pen or the minors. Rich Hill will start the season on the DL. That leaves Mark Hendrickson, Hayden Penn, Danys Baez, David Pauley, Alfredo Simon, Adam Eaton and Chris Waters to duke it out for the final three spots in the Opening Day rotation.

Unfortunately, nobody has stepped up yet to grab a spot. Dave Trembley keeps putting off the decision but he really has no choice at this point.

3. Luke Scott...Where's He Playing?

This has been a non-story. For all the talk of Scott being willing to try his hand at first base and Trembley wanting him to try out first, Scott has played mostly in left field and not manned first base once. He'll DH and play some left evidently.

4. The Catcher Situation

Andy MacPhail has stated that Matt Wieters would have to hit .800 to make the club out of Spring Training. Wieters is still in big league camp but I don't believe The Warehouse will let him come north to Baltimore. Look for Wieters in Norfolk until at least May.

Gregg Zaun has looked good in camp. Trembley likes how he blocks the plate as opposed to Ramon Hernadez and he seems to be handling the pitching staff well. As far as backups, it's between Chad Moeller and Robby Hammock. Hammock has hit well and shown the versatility to play the outfield but the smart money has to be on Moeller, the better glove, at this point.

5. Who's The Closer?

George Sherrill has been named the closer by Trembley but Chris Ray has looked spectacular. Look for Ray to get some chances this season too.

In other bullpen news, Jamie Walker looks healthy and, when healthy, Jim Johnson looks pretty good too. The pen could once again be a strength but it's hard to tell until we see who makes the rotation.

Montanez vs. Pie: Not The First Meeting, Nor the Last

Roch Kubatko posted about Luis Montanez today and it included a telling quote from Montanez about his chances of making the team:

"I hope it's still a competition and not a hand-over," Montanez said without mentioning Pie or any other players. "I hope they're not just rewarding people. I hope it's based more on merit than just names."

Montanez could not have been thrilled when Pie was added to the club. It's not the first time that Pie may have cost him a job.

Montanez was drafted in the first round (third overall) by the Cubs in 2000. He struggled early, not having even modest success until 2004 at Low A Boise. Montanez has moved from shortstop to second. It was also this year that Montanez first crossed paths with Felix Pie at High A Dayton.

Here was a player, three years his junior, who was doing all the things with a bat that Montanez has been projected to do. Pie was just one of several talented youngsters who were passing Montanez on the depth chart.

At age 19, Pie was OPSing .799, stealing 32 bases and playing a stellar centerfield as one of the youngest players in the league. Pie would start 2005 in AA West Tennessee while Montanez would not be called up until 2/3 of the season was up.

In 2006, Montanez was crushing AA pitching...but Pie was up in AAA at age 21 posting a .792 OPS. Montanez played 82 games at AAA that year but only managed to hit .224. At the end of the season, the Cubs gave up on him and he signed with Baltimore and was assigned to Bowie.

Fast-forward two years: Montanez has played well in a 38 game stint with Baltimore and is the odds on favorite to make the team as the 4th outfielder. And who comes along? Lou must be wondering what he has to do to get rid of this guy.

Montanez is almost certainly destined for Norfolk but for the first time in his career, he has a small window where he actually looks better than Pie. It's understandable why he would twist the knife at this point.

Some of the commentary supporting Montanez below Roch's post is insane. A sample:

Also, with Pie being late to camp and not "wow-ing" anyone yet, shouldn't he be sent to the minors for Opening Day? Let him "work on some things" that, apparently, Montanez has already worked out.

Pie is out of options. That's why the Orioles were able to get him in the first place. He can't be sent down without being claimed by another team. Next:

They had to get Reimold out of there, he was really coming on. Its embarassing now, think what it would be like at the end of spring training with Reimold at .350 and 7 or 8 home runs vs the Chosen One (Pie) at less than .200 and 1 home run.

If Montanez continues to do well they'll have to move him too.

So they sent Reimold away to save face for Pie? Reimold spent his first fully healthy season at AA Bowie last year and had a nice year. He needs more seasoning in Norfolk before he's ready. It's obvious why he was sent to minor league camp. He's not ready. Pie has a good AAA resume at least.

What a complete sham. Just because Pie has played at AAA he deserves to play in the majors more than Lou? Pie is clearly Andrew's golden boy and he will have to do something illegal not to make this team.

Once again quality minor leaguers who have done their time and learned the Oriole way will not be rewarded because retreads and alleged "prospects" get first crack at the 25 man roster.

Again, yes the AAA experience means a lot. Pie has OPS'ed well over .800 in more than 280 AAA games. He has only had 260 ABs to prove himself in the majors. He deserves a real shot.

Yes, Montanez has done his time and learned the "Oriole Way"...for two seasons. He is not, explicitly, homegrown talent.

I'll say it again...I like Lou Montanez, I don't love him. I certainly don't like him enough to give him a job over a promising, more proven commodity who is three years his junior.

UDC SKOSification

danbri wrote (22/03/2009)

"How are things going with SKOSification? If some SKOS extensions (SKOS is designed to be independently extended) are needed to do justice to UDC, it would be great to begin that discussion... particularly as SKOS has just entered "candidate recommendation" stage at W3C - http://www.w3.org/News/2009#item35"
Dan, this is certainly on our current agenda. We thought it

UDC SKOSification

danbri wrote (22/03/2009)

"How are things going with SKOSification? If some SKOS extensions (SKOS is designed to be independently extended) are needed to do justice to UDC, it would be great to begin that discussion... particularly as SKOS has just entered "candidate recommendation" stage at W3C - http://www.w3.org/News/2009#item35"
Dan, this is certainly on our current agenda. We thought it

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There are two ways to receive email from other addresses in Gmail: using Gmail's Mail Fetcher feature or by forwarding your other addresses' mail to Gmail automatically.

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2. Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page, and open the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
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4. Select the action you'd like your messages to take from the drop-down menu. You can choose to keep Gmail's copy of the message in your inbox, or you can send it automatically to All Mail or Trash.
5. Click Save Changes.

You also can set up filters to forward messages that meet specific criteria. You can create 20 filters that forward to other addresses. You can maximize your filtered forwarding by combining filters that send to the same address.


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