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Historic Victory!

This game was so historic I had to post the footage of it. The clip is not in English, but I think goal and WIN is universal.

The MDLU West Coast Summer Ballpark Tour

It's Summer and being a fan of Baseball, I decided to go on a crazy last minute summer baseball tour of the ball parks of the West Coast. A few years ago, I visited almost all of the ballparks of the East Coast (Old Yankee Stadium, Shea, Camden Yards, and RFK for the Nationals).

So far the MDLU has made stops in San Diego, Los Angeles, Anaheim, and San Francisco. A future tour date is scheduled for Seattle. Oakland might be added to the list, but later in the season.

For those of you who want to see the sights and sounds of baseball in the summer, visit MDLU on TwitPic and Qik.

That is the end of another Anaheim Ducks Season....

Well, we made it this far. The Anaheim Ducks forced a game seven against the dreaded Red Wings, this was after eliminating the top seeded San Jose Sharks. Neither team was easy, but it was against the Red Wings where the Ducks showed their future strengths and their current weaknesses. While some can place the blame at the feet of the officiating crew, league officials, etc... it all comes down to the energy and tenacity of the the team that wanted it more. In this case, it wasn't the Anaheim Ducks.

 The team here that showed they really wanted it was the Red Wings. I hate to say it, but they were preventing the Ducks from setting up the zone, they did a good job blocking Hiller's view of incoming pucks, and they just dominated the checks along the boards (as well as a few cheap shots along the way).

So with the Ducks out of the playoffs, and the view of the possibility of a combination of either the Red Wings/Blackhawks v. the Hurricanes/Penguins, it looks like an interesting race to Lord Stanley's Cup.

 But if I have to make a prediction: Blackhawks v. Penguins (And don't expect a big West Coast TV Audience for that one).

Some of the sights and sounds of Playoff hockey here in Orange County:

LaidOffCamp Los Angeles

Today I jetted up and over to the westside of Los Angeles to LaidOffCamp. LaidOffCamp is an informal gathering of folks all in the same situation, and you can figure out the common element based on the title.

The topics covered how to leverage LinkedIn in a job search, how to update your resume, and marketing your "brand."

While this was out in LA, I have spoken to a few from Orange County.

PBS Newshour was also visiting and interviewing LaidOffCamp attendees.

Can we now call him Senator Franken?

Live Coverage of the Franken Press Conference from The Uptake.org:

(I removed the uptake video player due to it auto playing)

Baseball is back!

Well, I was going to say the score was solidly in favor of the Angels of Anaheim, but Shields screwed up. So in the 8th, the Angels are ahead by 1...

UPDATE: This morning word was received that starting Angels of Anaheim pitcher Nick Adenhart was killed in a hit and run accident in Fullerton, CA after the game last night. The driver, who ran a red light, was captured an hour later by Fullerton PD officers. This is very sad news, Adenhart pitch six solid innings and kept the Halos in the game until the 8th. As a true Angel fan since birth, my thoughts go out to the Adenhart family for this tragic and senseless loss.

Through the eye's of the MDLU: San Diego

Sorry for the lull here on The MDLU. While the blogging may have stopped for a while, those of you who follow the MDLU may have noticed that I was still going on twitter and also through Qik.

Lately I have been stepping away from my computer and relying more on my iPhone for my daily computing needs. With the right applications, you can do almost everything you can do with your laptop on an iPhone. With this extra time I decided to pick up and complete a few books that piqued my interest: Made to Stick and Wired for War. Both great books that are definitely from two very diverse areas of  Marketing and War (One could intertwine the two books based on some of the issues raised by both authors. In the case of Wired for War, you can learn the general issues that we will have with the growing use of robots in warfare through the TED conference webpage.

As for travels, I've been to San Diego twice in less then a month. The first was to see Japan take on Cuba in the World Baseball Classic at PetCo and then recently it was for the Crew Classic.

Here was my view from the beer tent in San Diego:

Qik and the MDLU

So after monkeying around with my iPhone, I've decided to play with the Qik video blogging service. So far I have a test video and a pan shot of the new Kean coffee in Tustin.

Let me know what you think.

www.Qik.com/mdlu

POTUS in The OC

I apologize for the lack of post here in the MDLU over the last week.

I was proud to see the President visit Orange County. The sight of the executive fleet landing at the OC Fair was both awesome and amazing. The way the pilots can bring them down in such a small area shows that not just any pilot gets to fly POTUS and his staff.

The President's visit, from my observations, was a lot like an episode of The West Wing. Combine both California 47th and 20 Hours in Los Angeles and that was exactly like the past 48 hours.

So, look for more coverage from the MDLU in the future.

WBC San Diego '09

Live from the World Baseball Classic in San Diego. Follow #WBC for updates on Twitter.