Uruguay-South Korea

It sounded like there were thousands of angry bees in the broadcast booth. What a contrast to Germany four years ago, when everybody seemed to be singing "Go West" by the Village People.

But seriously, this has been a strange World Cup. France throw a hissy fit, crash, and burn; *Italy* crash and burn; and the U.S. finish at the top of their group. What a far cry from 1998, when the U.S. lost to Iran and France were the champions.

So much for the U.S.

Ghana 2, United States 1.

The bees sound as angry as ever.

Adventures in plug computing

The SheevaPlug is a miniature computer the size of a "wall wart" power supply. It can do almost anything a "real" computer can do, and on 7 watts of power. When a client asked me the other day to come up with a way to monitor a transmitter site via a Web site, I took a SheeevaPlug, put an Apache Web server on it, added a Perl script to talk to the relevant piece of equipment, and shipped it to the client.

I'm running my personal mail server and Web server on a SheevaPlug. I should be able to get one to stream audio, too, if the need should arise, although I'll need a USB audio interface.