Oh man oh man oh man. If you're looking for me anytime in the next 8-10 months, I'll probably be parked in front of a TV watching ESPN2...

Here's the results of the Champions League draw that occured earlier today:

Group A -- Besiktas (Turkey), Liverpool (England), Olympique Marseille (France), Porto (Portugal)

Group B-- Chelsea (England), Rosenborg (Norway), Schalke (Germany), Valencia (Spain)

Group C -- Lazio (Italy), Olympiakos (Greece). Real Madrid (Spain), Werder Bremen (Germany)

Group D-- Benfica (Portugal), Glasgow Celtic (Scotland), AC Milan (Italy), Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine)

Group E -- Barcelona (Spain), Glasgow Rangers (Scotland), Lyon (France), Stuttgart (Germany)

Group F -- Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine), Manchester United (England), AS Roma (Italy), Sporting Lisbon (Portugal)

Group G -- CSKA Moscow (Russia), Fenerbahce (Turkey), Internazionale of Milan (Italy), PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands)

Group H -- Arsenal (England), Sevilla (Spain)-AEK Athens (Greece) winner, Slavia Prague (Czech Republic), Steaua Bucharest (Romania)

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So I discovered this morning that on Google Reader you can share items you come across and find interesting. By sharing them, they're collected at http://www.google.com/reader/shared/10386564782129555979 where people can see what you've decided is worth reading.

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The Seven Fortean Wonders of the World

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For more on Troll 2, read Andrew's review at Lucid Screening

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So the freelance project I've been mainly working away on in recent months finally kinda came to a close yesterday with the relaunch of The Amateur Gourmet.

The site is running on Movable Type which I've become intimately familiar with through the process of building this site, Lucid Screening, and now The Amateur Gourmet. In addition to doing extensive configuring of the Movable Type installation, there was also also a lot of HTML, CSS, a tiny bit of PHP, and an even tinier bit of Javascripting involved. The beautiful design was done by Leah. You can visit her site, Pink Leahtard, and congratulate her on a job well done. All in all a very fun project and a great result.

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Another year of my life has come and gone and I feel pretty much the same. I suspect that's just the way things go.

Besides the inevitable process of aging, here are some other things I've accomplished lately:

- Renewed the ad contract with BizRate on Lucid Screening for another year.
- Speaking of Lucid Screening, we had our second best month ever in July. Our best was April 2007 when we had our White Elephant Blog-a-thon.
- Read a bunch of books, the highlights being The Mismeasure of Man, Pyongyang, and Rats
- Vandalized Wikipedia for the first AND LAST time (the guilt is eating away at me).
- Screened Gas at the New York Asian American International Film Festival. That was fun.
- Finished a small freelance project cleaning up and reconfiguring code on Michael Ruhlman's blog.
- Working on a big freelance project that should launch within the next week. I will of course post about it once it's done.

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