Chris had some good saves and Mark really put the pressure both on defense and offense. He scored at least 2 goals, maybe 3? CJ, joined the team and had an assist for Mark's first goal. We managed to get the lead late in the second half. We fell back to a heavy defensive position and ran the clock out.

Mac Daddy's had their own terminator on the field. A girl with an exposed knee brace was inflicting pain on people left and right. If we aren't supposed to wear jewelry I suspect a large, and apparently sharp, leg apparatus should not be allowed on the field exposed. If she had put a knee pad on it and wore pants, she probably would have been OK. The first time I encountered her knee brace, I thought, "Wow, she's built like a rock!" Eventually I looked down at my knee and saw that it was bleeding. See the picture to the left. Once I get the blood cleaned off, I'm sure it won't look so nasty. I suspect I'll have a long line of a bruise. The ref. should have taken care of it but, even when I brought to his attention, he did nothing.

I can't complain too much, in my own oxygen deprived state, I kicked a couple of people in the ankles. aaKarma.

My copy of iLife 2005 came yesterday. I quickly installed it to see all the wondrous improvements since the original version of iPhoto/iMovie that came with my power book in 2002. The motivating factor behind spending the $79.00 for iLife '05 was the updated iPhoto and iDVD. iLife also comes with GarageBand and iMovie.

It took over an hour for iLife to import my iPhoto library. I have 1,756 photos in my library. However, once the import was complete, I found the new iPhoto to be a lot faster. I haven't yet played with iPhoto's advanced features, but will take a closer look the next time I import pictures from my digital camera.

iPhoto is only the first stop in my photo archive workflow. Everything lives in my web-based photo-album, powered by Gallery. I use iPhoto to get pictures from my digital devices and touch them up before importing into Gallery. I use the iPhotoToGallery export plugin to upload the pictures into Gallery. (I wish there were some way to sync. gallery with iPhoto.) I like iPhoto's new keyword feature, but I'm dissappointed it still only supports one library of photos and does not support sub-albums.

iDVD did not install by default because I don't have a super drive. I have a Lacie DVD writer which Roxio Toast identifies as a "Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-106D." I believe this is the same model as the super drive. Even if it isn't, iDVD now supports writing a DVD image which I can then burn using Toast. The CaptyDVD software that came with the Lacie drive is pretty basic. It will still take nearly 24 hours to encode a DVD using my little 800 MHz powerbook!

I still have 60+ Gig of digital video from our wedding TWO years ago that needs to be compiled and burned to DVD. When I get motivated to actually do this, iLife will help.

• A RAW Look at iPhoto 5
• Output Like a Pro with iPhoto 5
• iPhoto Library Manager - allows switching between multiple iPhoto libraries

A plugin for iPhoto that uploads images to the LiveJournal Scrapbook (Fotobilder) photo hosting service.