The Good: TP, Posey, Sanz, and the the offensive line were great.

The Bad: OSU gave up four sacks to an undersized defensive line.  I think part of the problem was TP’s indecisiveness which may have been due to his injury.

The Ugly: The Special Teams play for the Buckeyes was just plain awful.  Come on Tress, this is supposed to be your special area!

Gamestats (From ESPN)

Picture courtesy of http://ohiostatebuckeyes.com/.

Creating it is very simple. First, we need to setup a file structure.  Create a folder called whatshesaid.AdiumScripts.  Then right click(CTLR+click), and click ’show package contents.’  Create a folder called Contents.  Inside Contents, create a folder called Resources.  The result:

->whatshesaid.AdiumScripts
–>Contents
—->Resources

The next step is to create the actual script.  Enter the Resources folder.  Open up the Script Editor from the Applications folder.  If this is not installed, then just be prepared to save a file using the .scpt extension.  Create a function like this:

The on substitute() function will be called every time the script is used.  Inside is an array of strings seperated by commas.   Now the question is, how do we use the script?

Go up one level back to the Contents folder.  Click HERE and drag the info.plist file into the directory.  If you changed any of the defaults, make the appropriate changes.

And that’s it.  Just click on the random.AdiumScripts icon and it should install. Type /she or %_she in a chatbox to test the script. That’s the simplest way to do it. There are some other XML properties that can be added but aren’t necessary for personal use. If you plan on publishing on Adium’s website, be sure to add any and all public standards.

You can add more substitutions by creating more script files and more entries into the XML tree. You can also edit the triggers by changing /she to any character sequence.

Your files will be installed in Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Scripts

http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20571

Alan Turing is considered to be the father of modern computer science.  Turing is also partly responsible for designing the “bombe,” a machine used to crack the German Enigma machine yielding invaluable German military Intelligence to the Allied forces.

Unfortunately, instead of being revered by his government for his services rendered, he was criminally prosecuted for being a homosexual because homosexuality was illegal in Great Britain in 1952.  Having seen the end of his career and having undergone the subsequent drug treatment administered by the government to cure his homosexuality, he committed suicide via a cyanide induced apple.

Since then, the scientific community has embraced his achievements and ignored his lifestyle decision (as they should).  With great pleasure, I have stumbled upon an online petition urging the British PM to apologize to Alan Turing.  It is shame that only British citizens can sign it.  This petition can be found:

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/turing/

For more information about Alan Turing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

Lastly, what would this be without a plug for gay rights in today’s society:

http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/index.html

http://www.websiteoutlook.com/

It is no surprise that the most popular pages are adult websites.

Click here

The following is from ESPN.COM:

1. Oklahoma Sooners
Total points: 1,968

2. USC Trojans
Total points: 1,897

3. Ohio State Buckeyes
Total points: 1,655
Positives: Dripping with football tradition, Ohio State has been a fixture in the Prestige Rankings for the past half-century. In 1968-69, the Buckeyes racked up 190 points alone. As a point of reference, that’s more than the highly successful Boise State program has earned in the last decade combined. OSU is the No. 5 program in the 1970s, and it could have been much higher had it not been for its “Ten-Year War” with Michigan during that time. Even for all the flack that John Cooper received for his 2-10-1 record against Michigan, he is responsible for a boatload of NFL 1st-round draft picks. The recent knock on OSU has been its failure to win the big bowl games, but that hasn’t stopped them from finishing in the top 5 in all but two of the last seven seasons. Plus, the five-time national champions should like their spot in the Prestige Rankings ahead of their longtime rival to the north.
Negatives: The Buckeyes would have been a threat for the top spot in our rankings if not for the lack of dominating seasons in the ’80s after Woody Hayes was fired. And if they had been able to knock off Florida and LSU in the two recent BCS National Championship Games, the Buckeyes would have really been nipping at USC’s heels for the BCS-era crown.
Through the decades: Through 1958: 5th | 1968: 6th | 1978: 6th | 1988: 6th | 1998: 6th
Did you know? Ohio State has just five losing seasons since 1936 (and just two since 1960). That’s the fewest among any program that’s been around that long.

4. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Total points: 1,579

5. Nebraska Cornhuskers
Total points: 1,553

6. Alabama Crimson Tide
Total points: 1,534

7. Texas Longhorns
Total points: 1,494

8. Michigan Wolverines <—-HAHA not even in the top 5
Total points: 1,332

9. Florida State Seminoles
Total points: 1,110

10. Miami Hurricanes
Total points: 1,109

The Scoring System (Source):

National title: 25 points
The full 25 points were awarded to any team that won one of the two major poll titles (AP, UPI or coaches) that season. No season had more than two title winners.

Berth in one of the major bowls: 10
Major bowls were defined as every Rose, Orange and Sugar bowl since ‘36; every Cotton Bowl from 1940 to ‘94 (i.e., from when it started taking the SWC champ until the Cotton was booted from the Bowl Alliance); and every Fiesta Bowl since the ‘86 season when the historic No. 1 Miami-vs.-No. 2 Penn State game changed the landscape of college football.

Major bowl win: 10

Best win/loss record in conference regular season: 10
These points were awarded to every team that had at least a share of the best overall record in a major football conference, regardless of divisional alignment. Independent schools were awarded the bonus if they were ranked ahead of at least three of the big six conference champions in a final regular-season poll that season.

Final AP top-5 finish: 10
All final poll points were awarded for the final poll put out by the AP that season.

Heisman winner: 8

Final AP top 6-10 finish: 6

Conference title championship-game bonus: 5
This bonus was given to a school only if it hadn’t already gotten credit for having the best record in its conference’s regular season.

Final AP top 11-25 finish: 4

Bowl appearance: 3
This was awarded for any NCAA-sanctioned bowl, and would be added to the previously mentioned major bowl points.

Bowl win: 3
10-win season: 2
Week as AP No. 1: 2
Win over AP No. 1: 1
Each consensus All-American: 1
First-round NFL draft pick (since ‘70): 1
Losing season: minus-2

There were lots of variables for when a school was handed penalties by the NCAA for infractions. Those penalties were graded as such:
Each year of television ban: minus-1
Each year of postseason ban: minus-2
Each year of overall probation: minus-1
Each year of financial-aid penalty: minus-1
Each year of recruiting penalties: minus-1
Each penalty of “show cause action:” minus-2

Rails will add some new features and enhancements by merging with MERB.  Should be interesting.

I Installed Leopard without any problems…until I tried to login.  For some odd reason, Leopard decided it could not recognize or repair my damaged FileVault protected home folder.  FileVault encrypts my home directory.  You can turn on FileVault under System Preferences -> Security.  Of course it was not damaged before I tried installing Leopard.  Leopard either has some compatibility issues with Tiger’s FileVault, or it damaged some of my files.  Whatever the reason, I can’t login.

So the only solutions are to:

• Login as another user, impossible for me considering I don’t have any other user accounts.  Of course google produces terminal commands to make new users.
• Clean install and use a backup.  Nice, but only good if you create frequent backups (and you should!)
• Use another Mac or HD to copy your files.

So obviously, I recommend creating a backup before installing Leopard and turning off FileVault, if you can.  The only problem with doing that is the space requirement.  FileVault requires a large chunk of HD space to unload.  At the time, I probably couldn’t have because we all know how large the Macbook HDs are

What a shock this is.  For a company that preaches about superior software, I am surprised it doesn’t always work.  According to Apple, because they create both the OS and the machine, everything just works.  Is that not a lie?  False advertisement?  Of course this isn’t the first time Leopard installs have caused fits.  The first day it was released, many users reported their machines hanging.

Don’t get me wrong, I still like Apple computers, and some of their products, but I would say the honeymoon is over.  Any shot of me becoming a fanboy, which is impossible since I still like Windows, is now impossible.

Spoke to a Mac guy about the situation and he says not to use FileVault unless one works for the CIA.  Sensationalizing, sure, but I would add, don’t use it because it causes problems.

I did fix this problem.  I used the third method with an external HD.  Put the Leopard CD into your Mac.  Plugin your external HD.  Install Leopard on your external HD.  You may have to format the HD into a special format, GUID.  Click HERE to learn how to do that.  Install Leopard, and let it restart.  It reboots to the new install on the external HD.

Login into your new OS install, and you should be able to see your old HD mounted.  Click on it, and browse to Users/Your_account and you should see a Yourname.sparseimage.  Drag that to your external HD.  Click on it, and it should ask you for a password.  Enter your account password and ignore the warnings.  Now you should be able to recover your files.  Just be sure you locate any and all important program files HERE for a link that has information about how to track down application files.  It’s about uninstalling applications but it yields information about how application data is stored on your machine by OS X.