"Operation Slap Shot" isn't going away any time soon. According to this article from The Star-Ledger out of New Jersey, wiretaps caught The Great Wayne Gretzky discussing the multimillion-dollar gambling operation run by his friend Rick Tocchet before the ring was dismantled Monday. This contradicts what Gretzky told us Tuesday
Songbird, the highly anticipated open-source media player from Rob Lord and the gang, built on the same platform as Firefox, was released today as a "proof of concept". The official site was impossible to access, but I managed to download the installation file from a mirror. Songbird crashed the first
I share an MP3 from my collection every Wednesday. You have seven days to grab this week's MP3. Please right-click your mouse and select "Save Link As..." or "Save target as..." so you can download it to your PC before playing. Von Bondies - C'mon C'mon This was my second
I'm not sure what to think of "Operation Slap Shot". For the unaware, "Operation Slap Shot" is the name of the New Jersey state police investigation into an illegal gambling ring with ties to organized crime allegedly run by Rick Tocchet. Tocchet is a former NHL player who is now
Just when I was about to stick a fork in Ed Belfour and declare him done like dinner, he's put together two fantastic outings in a row. It couldn't come at a better time with our arch rivals breathing down our necks. Prior to the game, former Leafs captain Darryl
Checking the milk calendar on the wall, this is 2006, not 1966. During the Super Bowl half time show, the audio failed to pick up one of Mick's lyrics in "Start Me Up". Children everywhere were spared from having to hear a geriatric exclaim "you make a dead man come"
Two years ago today I was part of a decision that haunts me to this day. We in Raging Storm voted to change our name from Hooray For Everything. Hooray For Everything was not only a fantastic name for a slo-pitch team, but it was a successful one. We won
Another benefit of moving to Movable Type is an automated RSS feed. I was manually maintaining the old one. The new RSS feed for this site is at http://www.torontomike.com/index.xml. Now we're cooking with gas.
With the signing of free-agent catcher Bengie Molina to a one-year deal worth $4.5 million US with a mutual option for 2007 worth $7.5 million or a $500,000 buyout, Toronto Blue Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi has now made five significant upgrades to the roster. Right-handed
I warned you more changes were coming. This is the biggie. For years I fought the push to implement a CMS solution. I derived a great deal of pride from hand-coding this entire site and ensuring it successfully validated as XHTML 1.0 Strict. Even the CSS and RSS feeds
Every Monday I shuffle my entire MP3 collection in iTunes and list the first ten songs that play. Here are the ten tunes I heard today with a personal story about one of them. Running Scared - Roy OrbisonGo To Sleep - Sarah HarmerBeaton's Delight - Ashley MacIsaacDeath - Ice
Super Bowl XL Commercials - Global TV watchers can see what they missed here.
In my adult life, I've never watched so little NFL action as I did during this past season. I saw the Colts blow their undefeated season, I saw the Colts lose in the playoffs and I watched yesterday's Super Bowl. My interest in the NFL began to wane when my
Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following entry earlier today. Accessing Jacob D. Robida's page is what Toronto seems to becoming. A CHILD with no future. 18 yrs. is still a child no matter how much they think they are grown
You may have read about Jacob D. Robida, the 18 year old suspected of a hatchet-and-gun attack in a Massachusetts gay bar and in the killing of two people in Arkansas, including a policeman. He died earlier today of wounds suffered in a gun battle with officers. Like many 18
Just last night I unveiled some changes to these pages. Judging from the immediate response, 12 point is just too big for you guys. Perhaps the jump from 10 to 12 was just too dramatic. I've dropped her back down to 11 point. It's still larger than it was yesterday
For a while, this game looked a lot like this one. We jumped out to a 3-0 lead and sat back while the opposition made a run. This time, Ed Belfour shone bright and we held on for a badly needed two points.Current Record Last GamesSeason Leaders26-23-5 57 points
"Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music." - Marcus Brigstocke
No, I haven't thrown a bunch of Ajax in the mix, but I did follow the lead of many so-called Web 2.0 sites and made a couple of changes to the aesthetics. For starters, I changed the font family from Verdana to Arial. That seems to be the way
This Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy has grown way out of hand. The Toronto Star is reporting that protests have escalated today with "aggrieved believers calling for executions, storming European buildings and setting European flags afire". Thousands of outraged Syrian demonstrators stormed the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus, setting fire
Star Wars Goes Gay - Yes, it's another "Brokeback Mountain" spoof.
Betty Friedan was 85. Her manifesto "The Feminine Mystique" became a best seller in the 1960s and laid the groundwork for the modern feminist movement.
I've added 4 new CDs to my MP3 collection. Here they are... K. D. Lang - Hymns Of The 49th ParallelRobbie Robertson - Robbie RobertsonHouse of Pain - Same As It Ever WasCulture Club - The Best of Culture ClubThat's 1141 complete albums, 17,024 songs and 45.4 days
Al Lewis was 82. He was the cigar-chomping patriarch of "The Munsters" whose work as a basketball scout, restaurateur and political candidate never eclipsed his role as Grandpa from the television sitcom.
Brokeback To The Future - The touching story, of a love that could never be.
