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Quotes for Football Fans

My mother just sent me this one:

#1. ‘Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas ‘ - Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to the 1969 game.

#2. ‘After you retire, there’s only one big event left… and I ain’t ready for that.’ - Bobby Bowden / Florida State

#3. ‘The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.’ - Lou Holtz / Arkansas

#4. ‘When you win, nothing hurts.’ - Joe Namath / Alabama

#5. ‘Motivation is simple.. You eliminate those who are not motivated.’ - Lou Holtz / Arkansas

#6. ‘If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, ‘Roll, tide, roll!’ - Bear Bryant / Alabama

#7. ‘A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.’ - Frank Leahy / Notre Dame

#8. ‘There’s nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.’ - Woody Hayes / Ohio State

#9. ‘I don’t expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.’ - Bob Devaney / Nebraska

#10. ‘In Alabama , an atheist is someone who doesn’t believe in Bear Bryant.’ - Wally Butts / Georgia

#11. ‘You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.’ - Paul Dietzel / LSU

#12. ‘It’s kind of hard to rally around a math class.’ - Bear Bryant / Alabama

#13. When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world. ‘No, but you can see it from here.’ - Lou Holtz / Arkansas …

#14. ‘I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.’ - Bear Bryant / Alabama

#15. ‘There’s one sure way to stop us from scoring- give us the ball near the goal line.’ - Matty Bell / SMU

#16. ‘Lads, you’re not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.’ - Frank Leahy / Notre Dame

#17. ‘I never graduated from Iowa , but I was only there for two terms - Truman’s and Eisenhower’s.’ - Alex Karras / Iowa

#18. ‘My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.’ -Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee

#19. ‘I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.’ - Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

#20. ‘Always remember… Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.’ - Shug Jordan / Auburn

#21. ‘They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that’s real small pieces’ - Darrell Royal / Texas

#22. ‘Show me a good and gracious loser, and I’ll show you a failure.’ - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

#23. ‘They whipped us like a tied up goat.’ - Spike Dykes / Texas Tech

#24. ‘I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn’t recruit me and he said: ‘Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren’t any good.’ - Walt Garrison / Oklahoma State

#25. ‘Son, you’ve got a good engine, but your hands aren’t on the steering wheel.’ - Bobby Bowden / Florida State

#26. ‘Football is not a contact sport - it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.’ - Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

#27. After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his postgame message to his team: ‘All those who need showers, take them.’ - John McKay / USC

#28. ‘If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.’ - Murray Warmath / Minnesota

#29. ‘The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.’ - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

#30. ‘Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.’ - Spike Dykes / Texas Tech

#31. ‘It isn’t necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.’ - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

#32. ‘We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.’ - Darrell Royal / Texas

#33. ‘We didn’t tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking.’ - Wilson Matthews / Little Rock Central High School

#34. ‘Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.’ - Darrell Royal / University of Texas

#35. ‘I’ve found that prayers work best when you have big players.’ - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

#36. ‘Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.’ - John Heisman

Friday football funny

Scott Allan sent me this one

Police report in Baton Rouge:

Baton Rouge Police reported that an individual attempted to “egg” Coach Les Miles home last night.

The report stated:

An empty egg carton was recovered at the scene. Two eggs hit Coach Miles house, 3 eggs went over his house and hit his neighbor’s back door, 2 eggs hit the houses of each of his next door neighbors, and the remaining 3 eggs were found broken on the ground near the carton from where the individual threw them. Looking at what was hit, police officials say they are considering quarterback Jarrett Lee as the primary suspect.

Rich, our resident LSU fan, confirmed that this is true. *g*

Rules for watching Alabama football games

There is a sweet little old lady who gets her hair done at the salon where I go to get mine done. We had a chance to chat a few weekends ago when I was in there and our conversation gravitated towards football. She leaned over to me and said, “Do you know how I answer the phone when I’m watching a Bama game?” I shook my head and she replied, “Roll-tide-roll-make-this-quick!”

Anyone who knows me knows never ever EVER to call during a Bama game, but if some poor unfortunate soul ever did, I may just have to apply her tactic!

I thought of her this morning when I ran across Cheryl Wray’s post: “Momma’s Rules” for Watching Bama Games at Home

1. Once the game begins, all conversation will be focused solely on the game. If you choose to talk about anything else, you will be sent to another room.

2. During commercials, you have a quick respite to go to the bathroom, replenish your snack plate, or talk about games other than the current game being watched. Once the game is back on, however, you must be in your seat and attentive once again.

3. There will be no blocking the view of the television simply because you need to show me how well you do ballet.

4. If you decide to talk about boys, you must go to another room (this applies only to the preteen and teenage girls in my home).

5. You will attend the game properly attired. Ideally, you need to wear an Alabama shirt. If you do not have one, you can wear a generic red shirt. If you do not have one of these shirts, one will be provided for you.

6. You will bring appropriate game-day snacks. Chips and rotel dip, buffalo wings, pizza, rice krispy treats, chocolate cake are all fine with me. (Who am I kidding? Any food is good football food! Want to bring storebought? Fine. Want to bring gourmet? Bring it on.)

7. You have permission to scream mercilessly at the referees. You also have permission to laugh and mock the other team and coaches. You have permission to wring your hands over Alabama’s performance, but you will never yell “They suck.” My home is a hate-free environment and we will support our team no matter what (This applies primarily to my husband Gary, who gets completely disgusted the moment we commit our first fumble.)

8. You will listen to my incessant comments and commentary about the team’s playing during the game. I know everyone on the roster, have studied their stats, and know a bunch about the other team as well. You will bow to my intelligence (and keep your mouth shut if you don’t).

9. You will yell “Rolllllll Tiiiiiiiiiide” on every kickoff, and at other random moments throughout the game.

10. You will not (never, ever) ask such questions as, “What does holding mean?” or “Why did they get two points for that tackle in the end zone?” or “What’s a cornerback?” while the game is taking place. During a game is not the appropriate time to learn about football. (If, however, you have a sincere desire to understand the fine points of the game, I will be happy to answer reasonable questions during commercials.)

11. If you are a teenage daughter and would love to have a curfew extended, keys to the car, or some extra cash in your pocket, cheering alongside me with unabashed enthusiasm is a great start!

12. If you are a preteen, talking about how “hot” our team’s quarterback is (although he is quite the cutie) does not qualify as “educated football discussion.”

13. If you are a four-year-old, do not ask “When is this game going to be over?” repeatedly.

14. You are permitted to perform “happy dances” after touchdowns have been scored. I appreciate exuberance!

15. You will understand why I close my eyes and cover my face if we are behind with under two minutes to go; you will understand why I actually leave the room if we are trying to score to win within the last thirty seconds. If you don’t understand, you will get over it anyway.

H/T: TideGrad ‘93 and Brian McDaniel

ROLL TIDE!

Football funny

I’m in a good mood today and got a football funny to share:

News Report

Auburn University football practice was delayed nearly two hours yesterday after a player reported finding an unknown white powdery substance on the practice field. Tommy Tuberville immediately suspended practice while police and federal investigators were called to investigate. After a complete analysis, FBI forensic experts determined that the white substance unknown to the players was the goal line. Practice was resumed after special agents decided the team was unlikely to encounter the substance again.

ROLL TIDE!

Seen at Alabama’s homecoming game

Modified post on 11/3/2008: replaced image with much larger original and replaced Utterz coding with description.

This gentleman was sitting one section over from us. Jess and I happened to catch him at the concession stand, and he let me take his picture with my cell.

Think Auburn may be interested?

Humpday Hilarities

Note: I spazzed and forgot about future posts in WordPress … so yay, funnies posted while I’m gone!

This football funny was sent to me by one of my co-workers:

Weather Advisory From The National Weather Service:

In the event of a tornado warning, the National Weather Service advises all Auburn residents to take immediate shelter in Jordan-Hare Stadium. A touchdown is highly unlikely to occur there.

Thank you for your cooperation.

And this one is from Jerri:

The Good Husband

Jack wakes up with a huge hangover after attending his company’s Christmas Party. Jack is not normally a drinker, but the drinks went down easy. He didn’t even remember how he got home from the party.

Jack had to force himself to open his eyes … the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirins next to a glass of water on the side table with a single rose.

Jack sits up and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed. He looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order. So is the rest of the house.

He takes the aspirins, cringes when he sees a huge black eye staring back at him in the bathroom mirror. Then he notices a note hanging on the corner of the mirror written in red with little hearts on it and a kiss mark from his wife in lipstick:

‘Honey, breakfast is on the stove, I left early to get groceries to make you your favorite dinner tonight. I love you, darling! Love, Jillian’

He stumbles to the kitchen and sure enough, there is a hot breakfast, hot coffee and the morning newspaper. His son is also at the table, eating. Jack asks, ‘What happened last night?’

‘Well, you came home after 3 a.m., drunk and out of your mind. You fell over the coffee table and broke it, and then you puked in the hallway, and got that black eye when you ran into the door.’

Confused, he asked his son, ‘So, why is everything in such perfect order and so clean? I have a rose, and breakfast is on the table?’

His son replies, ‘Oh THAT! Mom dragged you to the bedroom, and when she tried to take your pants off, you screamed, ‘Leave me alone, I’m married!”

Broken Coffee Table $239.99
Hot Breakfast $4.20
Two Aspirins $.38
Saying the right thing, at the right time … PRICELESS!

And last but certainly not least, this one from Cookie:

Saturday morning I got up early, dressed quietly, made my lunch, grabbed the dog, slipped quietly into the garage to hook the boat up to the truck, and proceeded to back out into a torrential down pour.

The wind was blowing 50 mph. I pulled back into the garage, turned on the radio, and discovered that the weather would be bad throughout the day.

I went back into the house, quietly undressed, and slipped back into bed. There I cuddled up to my wife’s back, now with a different anticipation, and whispered,

‘The weather out there is terrible.’

My loving wife of 20 yrs replied, ‘Can you believe my stupid husband is out fishing in that??”

I still don’t know to this day if she was joking, but I have stopped fishing.

What kind of Alabama fan are you?

You know, there are times when I just have to say to myself, “You and your big mouth.”

I made the mistake some time ago of telling Jessie’s mother where I get my hair done. Jess and I went up there last weekend to get our hair done, and wouldn’t you know it, she was there. She and a friend of hers were getting their nails done, and the whole time she ran her mouth about how nice the place was and how she needed to start coming there on a regular basis to get her hair done.

I know, I should know better … I was naive enough to believe that she wouldn’t be stupid enough to actually go somewhere she knows that I frequent! The young lady who does my hair quickly realized who she was when Jessie walked up and said, “Hi Mommy,” and raised her eyebrows at me with a surprised “WTF?” expression on her face.

A side note: pretty much all of the staff in this shop have heard me tell stories over the years about this woman. Once the girl doing her nails realized who she was, she grew quiet. A girl who’s normally very chatty and friendly quickly became very intent on trying to quickly finish this woman’s nails.

So, Jessie’s mother sat there and ranted on and on about how big of an Alabama fan she was and how big of an Auburn fan her “boyfriend” was (the boyfriend being a man she’s admitted to chasing for years who’s recently become single), and how she didn’t see how long the relationship will last because she’s “betraying her team”, and how she can see herself becoming an Auburn fan to “make it work” …

Oh give me a freakin’ break!

She then makes a snide comment about my husband and how he’s an FSU fan. Big woop. The woman was in there getting her nails painted orange. ORANGE!!!!

What kind of self-respecting Alabama fan gets her nails done ORANGE???

Oh Good Lord, help me. This is the same woman who lives paycheck to paycheck and stays maxed out on her credit card limits, and complains about not being able to pay the utilities — and apparently just recently QUIT HER JOB! I’m guessing she’s living off her 401K, as she is still unemployed and says she’s going to go to school to become a medical transcriptionist.

And Heaven help me, once someone asked her what she was going to do about money, she starts telling the woman all about the “new job” (that she hasn’t even gone to school for yet!) and how much it will pay and how happier she’ll be.

That’s it, I’m beating my head into the wall until I can’t hear her brainless dribble any longer!

Well, long story shortened, she finally left forty-five minutes later. Once she was gone, the young lady doing my hair said, “OMG, I knew from you talking about her all this time that she was bad, but DAMN!”

LOL … yeah, she’ll make any sane person’s head explode.

Something that bothered me though, I saw a change in Jessie’s demeanor while her mother was in the shop. On the drive up there, Jessie was all bubbly and happy. That changed once she saw her mother. She became very withdrawn and said she wasn’t in a “chatty mood” when her stylist asked if she was OK. For years, my friends had often told me that I behaved the same way whenever my father was around. It was a bit unnerving to see that behavior in Jessie.

About a half hour after her mother left, Jessie finally started brightening up and returned to her cheery little self. Seeing that kind of change in her when she’s around her mother worries me — I fear she’ll grow up and turn out like me.

She deserves so much better.

I’m an obnoxious Alabama fan

Every Friday morning it starts, the good-natured ribbing between friends and co-workers. Everyone knows I’m a big Alabama fan, and most will try their best to wind me up. However, last few years have taught me to keep my mouth shut when it comes to football. I may smile and play it down, but really my inner teenager is screaming, “Oh yeah? Come over here and say that to my face!” :lol:

My team is doing pretty well so far. Personally, I think Special Teams still needs a little more work, but the Offense and Defense are shaping up nicely. There’s no doubt about it, I love my team. An Auburn alumni tries to get a rise out of me with the ole “Alabama fans are the most obnoxious fans! They’re a pimple on the butt of the SEC!”

Oh great, acne jokes …

I countered with, “According to Fox Sports, Notre Dame fans are.”

“But,” he corrects himself, “Alabama is up on in the top 10 on that list.”

He’s right, we are. And like many of the teams on that list, we proudly puff out our chests and wear it like a badge of honor.

No. 8 / Alabama

“Crimson Tide fans take living in the past to a whole new level. How long has Bear Bryant been gone? They brag about how many titles they’ve won and proclaim their rivalry with Auburn the greatest ever, but they’re on an 0-6 streak in the Iron Bowl. Maybe they’re the ones who started this whole “SEC” chant thing; if your team can’t win, hide behind your conference’s success.” — Lisa Horne

In retort, I’d like to post something I received in an email. I know we still have a long way to go before we’re “National Championship material”, but we’re doing a lot better than we have been in recent years — and we’re doing a lot better than most other teams’ (and their fans) have expected.

We laughed when Mike DuBose admitted the affair with his secretary.

We laughed when DuBose turned Alabama from team ranked No. 3 in the preseason into a team with a 3-8 record.

We laughed when the NCAA came to town and pointed the barrel of the death-penalty gun at the Alabama cheaters.

We laughed when Dennis Franchione dropped the rope and ran to Texas A&M.

We laughed when Mike Price had his date with Destiny.

We laughed when Mike Shula couldn’t beat Northern Illinois, much less Auburn.

And we laughed when Alabama, the desperate bumpkins that they are, paid nomad mercenary Nick Saban $4 million dollars a year and then promptly lost to Louisiana-Monroe.

We aren’t laughing now. Saturday night, Alabama (5-0) unleashed a decade’s worth of frustration on the Georgia Bulldogs and sent a loud signal to all of college football:

‘Bama is back in a big way. It’s not surprising that Saban is winning. The man can coach, and any coach with a clue should be able to win at Alabama - the obvious implication being that a lot of cluelessness emanated from Tuscaloosa before Saban arrived to clean up the mess.

Still, it’s surprising just how quickly Saban has turned the Crimson Tide into one of the nation’s best teams. Most people expected that to come in 2009 or perhaps as late as 2010 when he’d have a full stock of his own highly-prized recruits.

But name a team with two more impressive victories than Alabama’s season-opening 34-10 destruction of Clemson or its 41-30 blitzing of the Bulldogs on Saturday in Athens. The polls now have Alabama at No. 2, its highest ranking since 1993.

That ‘93 squad was coming off a national title and was coached by Gene Stallings, the closest thing to Bear Bryant the Alabama family could find. His team were tough, disciplined and physical. They won old-school as the antithesis of Steve Spurrier’s Fun ‘N Gun. They were pretty much the opposite of the Keystone Cops routine Alabama has spent running for much of the time since Stallings’ departure in 1996.

Saban has brought that swagger and discipline back. Alabama is the fiercest team in the SEC, the antithesis of Urban Meyer’s dinky spread attack. The Tide hits you harder, blocks you harder and tackles you harder.

Playing Alabama these days is just so uncomfortable. Bryant would approve. The Tide plays with the passion of a team that simply won’t be denied and the innocence of a team that doesn’t know it’s not yet supposed to be this good.

This comes from Saban, the perfect coach at the perfect time. After a decade of dysfunction, Alabama needed a no-nonsense coach who’d be strong enough to take control of the program and tell the good-old-boys to butt out of his business. It needed a coach confident enough in his abilities to do the right things over the expedient things. That he has stepped on a few toes - especially a few media toes - only endears him to the win-starved faithful.

We laughed when Alabama coaching searches turned into three-ring circuses. We laughed when the rumors first surfaced that Alabama was pursuing the coach of the Miami Dolphins.

We laughed this summer when Forbes magazine named Saban the most powerful coach in sports.

Who is laughing now?

Certainly not Georgia or anybody else in the SEC.

Did you notice something else about that beatdown Saturday? So many of the plays were made by freshmen and sophomores.

Dark days are ahead for ‘Bama haters. Tide fans will be unbearable. Their team might soon be unbeatable.

We’re not there yet, but we will be soon. And you can expect me to be unbearable! :twisted:

ROLL TIDE ROLL!

WordCamp Birmingham Notes

Note: I had intended to post this Monday night, but work has been crazy-busy this week and Jim’s having a bit of a site snafu, so spare time has been pretty much nonexistent. LOL!

We had a wonderful time at WordCamp Birmingham this past weekend. A big thanks to Andre Natta and the B’ham team for all of their hard work. I’m most definitely looking forward to next year’s. The date is already set (September 26-27, 2009), so be sure to mark your calendar! Matt Mullenweg is slated to be a keynote speaker, so it should be awesome!!

The Future of WordPress

The first speaker we saw Saturday morning was Dougal Campbell with “The Future of WordPress.” He briefly covered WordPress’ version history and various milestones over the last few years. Thinking back, I think I started off with either version 1.0 or 1.1. I remember the upgrade to 1.2 being pretty hard, but that was nothing like having to re-do my theme for 1.5, LOL!

Ahh, those were the days … :lol:

He then moved on to the upcoming and much anticipated version 2.7. It’s due sometime next month. According to Dougal, there will be:

• more backend UI re-design;
• upgraded API, so you can upgrade themes, browse and install plugins and themes, etc.;
• comment improvements (many of these are covered in great detail on Otto’s blog) such as:
  • threaded comments
  • paged comments
  • auto-close comments
  • replying to comments from the Admin menu (a HUGE plus!!!)
• sticky posts;
• “Quick Edit” inline editing via Ajax for posts;
• HTTP-only cookies, a security feature;
• a new HTTP request API for plugin developers, replacing the current request API (Snoopy, I think?);
• and many others …

He also went over some possible features for future versions of WordPress:

• APP Importer: for Movable Type, Type Pad, Blogger, …
• A new “default” theme, possibly based on Sandbox or something similar to it. This will be replacing the current Kubrick theme.

Some features that he thinks are likely for version 2.8 (taken from the Trac Tickets) include:

• better page managment: select page order, hide pages
• expanded template functions: users, comments, attachments

We can look forward to seeing more CMS features, more social networking features, better widget management. Perhaps even OpenID (that would be sweet).

Documentation was brought up and he stated that there has been a big push (internally) to get the functions (I’m assuming he means the Codex?) better documented, updated, etc.

SEO For WordPress

The next speaker was Donna Fontenot, who had some really good insight on SEO for beginners. You can view her slides here. It is also available on her website in HTML format.

She started with a very simple recommendation as a first step for blogging: think first, write later. This can apply to so many aspects, and I admit it’s one that I don’t practice enough. You should actually USE the phrases you want to rank well for in blog posts. For best results, use them in prominent places:

• Document Title
• Body Headings
• In posts

Another stickler subject: Blog Visibility. In covering the WordPress Settings, she states that you should always make sure to have the privacy option set so that your blog is visible to everyone, including search engines.

Moving on to Permalink structure, the optimal setting is /%category%/%postname%/. For most blogs it’s ok to be different though. Dates, which are useless for SEO, are useful for users and are most generally preferred. It’s best to make sure that %postname% in there somewhere.

She talked a bit about URL canonicalization. Blog owners must make a choice: www or no www. Whichever you choose, you must consistently use it everywhere:

• Linking to your site
• correspondence
• email and IM signatures

Donna then moved on to categories. This is another thing I am doing wrong, LOL! She says it’s best to keep them as top-level important concepts, as opposed to tagging. Me, I tag and categorize all willy-nilly. Guess I’ll have to work on that. :mrgreen:

One of the plugins she highly recommended was All-In-One SEO Pack. I’ve heard about this plugin from several different people and from what I understand, it takes all the guesswork out of SEO for your blog. Donna says that the default settings work well.

Another plugin mentioned is: Excerpt Editor. This one gives extra control over excerpts, autogenerates excerpts (but allows overriding), prevents duplicate content between excerpts and full post, replaces the_content() with the_excerpt(), and more…

She spent a bit of time on two other post elements:

• Post titles:
  • use H1 or H2
  • Ok to use other tags, but H1 or H2 are best (use whatever suits your theme)
• Post slugs:
  • these should contain only most important words
  • and you should strip out “stop” words like ‘a’, ‘an’, ‘the’, etc. These dilute the value of other keywords in the slug (permalink)

Other topics covered were:

• Post Image Optimization
• Interlinking
• Encouraging Sharing/Linking
• Participating and Reciprocation

Donna’s presentation not only had a lot of good information, she also made recommendations as to customizations to themes and various plugins that could help improve the “SEO-ness” of your site. I highly recommend checking out her site. You’ll find a LOT of useful information there that she covered at WordCamp, and a lot more!

Merging your work life with your blog life

The next speaker was David Griner. His presentation was pretty comical, poking fun at himself (he’s not even a WordPress user *gasp* hehe) and his profession. While this wasn’t really one of the topics that first piqued my interest, it did have a lot of useful information for anyone whose ever wondered what it could take to make blogging a full-time job.

It’s not something I could do, but I admire anyone who does it!

Topics included:

• Pros of Freelancing
  • schedule your own time
  • stockpile blog posts in advance
  • decent extra pay
  • very minor level of celebrity
  • opportunities for guest editing/posting
  • work in your underwear
• Cons
  • most people suck at time management
  • you’ll starve
  • no benefits or security
  • can mess with your taxes
  • easy to lose steam
  • neighbors get tired of seeing you in your underwear
• Finding the right blog
  • you’re probably already reading it
  • who owns it?
  • how many writers?
  • Whats the output?
• Getting the gig
  • get to know the writers or editors
  • comment often under the same name
  • write response posts on your blog
  • if you like the site, help drive traffic there
• Asking for the job
  • no harm asking about openings
  • always write at least three sample posts that they could run that day
  • make sure your e-mail is colon-rupturing in its awesomeness
  • get across your enthusiasm for the blog
  • talk about how it has evolved
  • say why they need you
  • what is the blog missing?

You can see these and more in his slides here.

Break!

At this point, we broke for lunch. Jim and I didn’t go back for the late afternoon sessions. I was nursing a migraine and football would be on soon. (Hey, I’m a ‘Bama fan first and WP geek second! )

I went back Sunday for a couple of the sessions: Brett Bumeter’s “Windows Live Writer — Blogging with any Blogging Software Has Never Been Easier” and Mitch Canter’s “Making WordPress Dance.”

Brett’s presentation covered the Windows Live Writer application. It’s not really my cuppa, but would be a great interface for anyone intimidated by the web UI for most popular blogging software/services.

Mitch’s presentation covered several topics I had previously researched and I was impressed with the amount of helpful information he covered. He also had a great list of plugins that he recommended. I would like to see more of him next year, if he attends. You can find his slides here.

The Media

From watching the WordCamp Bham twitters, I can see that a photo pool is available on Flickr, as well as a handful of the presentation slides gathered on SlideShare. I also see that WordCamp Birmingham also made the local news. You deserve it guys, great work!

Good stuff. Can’t wait until next year.

(Updated to include slides links, thanks Don @ authorize.net!)

You GO, Bama!

Guess who’s on the cover of this month’s SI? Bama, that’s who!!!!

Yeah, baby! Ya lookin’ good, Bama, so keep on ROLLIN’!!!

Huge H/T to Roll Tide Football for this one!

ROLL TIDE ROLL!

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