Monthly Archives: October 2002

I’m an NFL Football fan, but due to geographical location I haven’t seen a game other than on TV. Well, unless you count the Scottish Claymores… which, to be fair, hardly counts as full blown NFL style football.

Even so, I can appreciate the history of the sport and the occasion of virtually every single game if you’re a fan of any of the 32 teams. From landmarks like Walter Payton’s all-time rushing record being broken at the weekend by Emmitt Smith, to Randal Cunningham retiring as an Eagle in the off season, I love the big moments and the less significant one’s in equal measure. That’s NFL football – larger than life players, and in the case of John Madden – larger than life commentators.

This story about a mentally-handicapped player who got the chance to score in a game is one of those things that brings a tear to the eye even if you don’t follow the sport. Two teams of players, coaches and refs who showed real class in making it happen for the kid.

It’s been pointed out to me by a couple of folk that the Seti@Home project is maybe not quite as worthwhile as helping out cancer research, for example, with our spare cpu cycles.

Fair point, I suppose, although I’m not sure which we’ll find first – a cure for cancer or extra terrestrial intelligence.

Anyhow, if you’re interested in helping cancer research then you can download the number crunching agent via the United Devices web site and be helping out in the background before you know it.

I think I’m going to have both of the agents running when I’m not using my PC. I mean, if we find the aliens and they turn out to have already discovered a cure for cancer then that would be pretty cool. On the other hand, if we discover a cure for cancer then maybe we can help some aliens out in the future. A win-win situation if you ask me :o)

James over at Ordinary Life took a rest from updating his site recently. Fortunately he couldn’t go cold turkey for long and is back at it again.

Nice one James – it is worth all the effort :o)