South Africa stadiums: virtual tour

You didn't have time or money to go to South Africa and watch the games from the bleachers?

Well, Google is trying to provide for those that always dreamed to be a soccer player by releasing a "street view mode" from the inside of all stadiums used in this World Cup.

Click on the link below and figure out how it is to be on the field, at least virtually:

http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/maps/streetview/gallery/index.html#south-africa-soccer-stadiums

About Paulo Porto

Work-life balance ... out the window?

With the World Cup starting in three days, I've had to put some serious thought into my overall work-life balance mix.

Previously, my time allocation and balance consisted of the following

• Work  : 50%
• Travel : 15%
• Eat :10%
• Everything else : 25%

Now with the first round looming my allocation is probably going to change to the following

• Watch/Read/Eat/Sleep/Write football : 63.487%
• Watch/Read while Travelling : 15%
• Everything else : 21.513%

I suspect that there will be many females who will wonder where their mates are and whether they will see them for the next month.

Now I need to spend the next eight hours trying to figure out how to either

• Circumvent company firewall to see youtube
• Reroute proxy server to accept torrent connection
• Install video software on my Nokia E71 to see matches while on the road
• Find bigger laptop to see more picture in picture video.

Am I the only one going through this? Hopefully I'm not the only one ... dear readers let us know how your work-life balance will change in the month ...

About Rishi Sankar

The first one is always the hardest

 
On June 15th Cote D'Ivoire will being their world cup against a very difficult opponent in Portugal. In all likelihood without their inspirational captain Didier Drogba upfront to lead the attack. In probably a must-win game in the group of death from both teams in order to keep the hopes of qualifying to the round of 16.

And where will I be? In the office...working! Now I'm sure I won't be the only person in this predicament as almost all the weekday games will be on during the workday.

I'm lucky as my office will be showing the games on a few of the big screens in the office, however I wanted to know how everyone else will be catching their teams games? I've listed a few of the options below which one will you use? Or do you have a completely different way of going about it?

• The classic "call in sick"
• PVR (Personal video recorder)
• Internet stream
• iPhone
• RSS feeder
• Radio
• Web Site updates
• Word of mouth (Could you really wait that long?)

About Mike Newell