1. 0:1 vs Puerto Rico Islanders
2. 1:2 vs Minnesota Thunder
3. 0:2 vs Seattle Sounders

Notice a pattern here? Yes, it seems that Gavin Wilkinson has inspired the boys in green to beat their opponents by a margin that follows the Fibonacci Sequence. The Fibonacci Sequence is pretty simple. You start with 1 and add 0, which gives you 1. Then you take that second 1 and add it to the first 1. That gives you 2. You add the previous number (1) to the current number (2) to get the next number (3). Repeat: You add the previous number (2) to the current number (3) to get the next number (5). Repeat: You add the previous number (3) to the current number (5) to get the next number (8). 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 and so on.

I fully expect that when the Timbers face the Rochester Rhinos (at PGE Park) on May 8th, they will win by a goal differential of 3. Which leaves us in the perfect position of go ahead 5 goals over the Flounders on May 10th.

By the end of the season, at the final home game, we should beat the Charleston Battery by 514,229 goals.

The final regular season game for the Timbers will have a goal chasm of 832,040 against the Carolina Railhawks @ WakeMed Soccer Park.

As it is likely that by following this plan the Timbers will get a first round bye in the post-season, they will have 4 more matches at the end of the season, with the two-leg aggregate for the championship’s goal totals separated by 5,702,887.

Over the course of the season and the playoffs, the Timbers will score 9,227,464 times. Yep, Nine Million goals in 2008.

This is going to be a real team effort. By the 13th match (Vancouver Whitecaps @ Swangard Stadium) The Timbers will be scoring a over once per minute. I know Taka can handle that pretty easily himself. But by game 25 (Minnesota Thunder @ James Griffin Stadium), the Timbers will be scoring over once per second. I think we’ll need to stagger the goal scoring at that point, so I’m hoping Chris Brown can take up some of the slack. I figure if they alternate seconds, their cleats won’t burst into flames.

By that championship match, the Timbers are going to have to put their backs into it as they score 652 goals each second. I’m hoping that Ray Burse (Keeper) gets at least a few of those, but I expect our back line will help out quite a bit.

I’d like to congratulate head coach Gavin on this brilliant plan. We were pretty weak on offense last year, but now we’re on the right track.

“True supporters for-ev-er more!”

(Please note that my calculations could be off a bit. It may be that Gavin is only having them score the sequence at home games.)

history | awk '{a[$2]++}END
{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'
| sort -rn | head

72 ping
72 ls
63 curl
62 cd
37 cal
32 whois
20 ssh
19 man
15 sudo
7 traceroute

I would suspect this is a common set for most web developing people. That ‘cal’ entry is because I often want to pull up a quick calendar for the year to check dates, but I don’t want to open iCal. Terminal is often open so it’s an easy reach to type ‘cal 2008′ or somesuch.

BUT the few remaining straggler sites were not so lucky. We had to go through a painful re-construction of the sites that were either haphazardly structured, or used a “devageduction” platform (Development/Staging/Production as one server! Bad bad bad!) These sites are supposed to be EOL and the resources consolidated in a whole new project, but since that hasn’t yet materialized, we’re still supporting these sites without a safety net.

Well, worry no more. As of yesterday at about 3 pm, all of our sites were migrated into Collage. We now have the versioning, check-in/check-out functions, deployment tools all set up for every one of our web sites that we can support in this manner.

And at about 4pm that same day, I read this: The Scoop on Serena Collage. The CMS is to be sold or put down. It’s been backed up with some other more official announcements as well, but those are buried or hidden behind secure sites.

Serena’s already committed to supporting the software for another 18 months or so and even after that point, the software will continue to work, but it’s the timing that really gets to me. “Interesting times”, indeed.

We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously.

Yay. Nice of them to come to our senses.

WebVisions: May 22 - 23, 2008 - Portland, Oregon

Media, technology and consumer trends visionary Lynne Johnson will join WebVisions to deliver the Thursday keynote address. Lynne is the Senior Editor and Community Director for FastCompany.com, a leading website and community for people passionate about business ideas that also offers the complete content of Fast Company magazine. She also writes a technology blog following web, media, and consumer trends for FastCompany.com, and guest blogs for techPresident and Black Web 2.0.

An internationally sought-after sage, author, and user experience consultant, Jeffrey Veen will return to WebVisions to deliver one of the event’s keynote addresses. Currently a Design Manager and project lead for Google’s Measure Map project, Jeffrey is returning to WebVisions to share his vision for the future of the Web.

At this point, WebVisions as an event runs really smoothly. We get a good set of volunteers returning each year, and my Tech Crews are always on top of things. I’m the stage manager and try to make sure that each speaker is prepared and comfortable, the audience is undistracted, and the volunteers understand that the audience members are expecting to have a great experience and we want to give them an outstanding experience.

WebVisions is incredibly cheap and for the quality of the speakers and the location, it cannot be beat. I hope you’re coming!

• Nice little prologue to an article covering the Timbers’ owner from the Business Journal.
• Amy and I were devastated to hear that Timber Jim is retiring. The press release was notable for calling Timber Jim what he should have always been known as: an icon.
• Chicago Sport Weekly looks at the new USL team and reflects on the differences between Timbers fans and Victory fans.

A: “Exfoliate!”

(I’m truly sorry… I thought that up this morning. I realize that there are only a small sliver in the venn diagram subset between the circle of “UK SciFi TV enthusiasts” and those “familiar with skin care techniques.”)