So.. what does everyone think about tonight's results?

Got to say I'm more annoyed this week than I was last week. LOUIS NEEDS TO GET OVER HIMSELF. I don't care about his hate for Jamie, they're supposed to judge the sing-off on the better singer and that was blatently Jamie. Seriously if Lloyd or Jedward (as entertaining as I find them) don't go next week, the show will actually become a joke.

UGH.

★ LA SELECCIÓN
★ CARLES PUYOL
★ MIGUEL TORRES





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Graeme Le Saux
Born: October 17, 1968
Country: England
Position: defender
Club(s): Chelsea, Blackburn Rovers, Cheslea, Southampton

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Poll #1485771 Graeme Le Saux
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Does anybody know when its being released?
I can't decide whether it will be good or not lol
We'll have to see!
Also, are they performing tonight or tomorrow?
Thanks :]

P.S. Omg how AWFUL was Jamie? He was so out of tune!

Anders Limpar
Born: September 24, 1965
Country: Sweden
Position: midfielder
Club(s): IF Brommapojkarna, Orgryte, Young Boys, Cremonese, Arsenal, Everton, Birmingham City, AIK, Colorado Rapids, Djurgardens IF

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Poll #1485318 Anders Limpar
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Willy Sagnol
Born: March 18, 1977
Country: France
Position: defender
Club(s): Saint-Etienne, Monaco, Bayern Munich

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Poll #1484831 Willy Sagnol
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Notes augmented

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LiveJournal Cares

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Photos of the week

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Ronalinho
Born: March 21, 1980
Country: Brazil
Position: midfielder
Club(s): Gremio, Paris Saint Germain, Barcelona, AC Milan

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Poll #1484435 Ronalinho
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EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.

Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!

Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Robert Enke
Born: August 24, 1977 - November 10, 2009
Country: Germany
Position: goal keeper
Club(s): Carl Zeiss Jena, Borussia Monchengladbach, Benfica, Barcelona, Fenerbahce, Tenerife, Hannover 96

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Lisandro Lopez
Born: March 2, 1983
Country: Argentina
Position: forward
Club(s): Racing Club, Porto, Lyon

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Poll #1483250 Lisandro Lopez
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sixwordstories
Whether you're in the mood for a creative challenge or you're short on time or attention span, this semi-addictive community is perfect for those who find flash fiction way long. Once you get the hang of it, you won't be able to stop. The prince turned into a frog. The girl ran home to mother. Tough to write. Easy to read. It's a double threesome of fun.

dailyfoodie
Delicious, ambitious, and occasionally nutritious dishes make for an eclectic, all-you-can-eat feast. Whether you're searching for recipes for your next dinner party or you're jonesing for a late-night brownie fix, your cravings are sure to be well sated. A warm and inclusive community that welcomes all orientations, from carnivores to vegans, from gourmands to junk-food junkies. Guaranteed bias-free, food-positive, and pan-epicurian.

Gustavo Poyet
Born: November 15, 1967
Country: Uruguay
Position: midfielder
Club(s): Grenoble, River Plate de Montevideo, Real Zaragoza, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, Swindon Town

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Seriously, WHAT?????

So predictions for tonight? Since I was right last week, har har, this week I'm thinking Lloyd; I thought he was actually pretty good yesterday but the rest of the acts are really strong (and then there's Jedward =d). I think Stacey might end up in the bottom two, even though I hope not because I still love her to death, but I think she lacks... IDK, stage presence, maybe?

Can I say that Cheryl and Louis both royally pissed me off yesterday. Cheryl's comment on Danyl's VT (he'll probably pull a high note at the end and I'm over it) was so ridiculous; her Joe pulls those high notes too and Lloyd would as well if he could actually do it. For some reason she's so personal when it comes to Danyl, what was that crap about his demeanour, what about his bloody singing? Her 'positive' comments were so grudgingly given, and yet she glares at Simon when he says anything negative about her acts. Pah. I used to quite like her but what the hell.
And then there's Louis. YOU DO NOT INSULT DERMOT. jdahgrhejkl; I generally like Louis despite how crap he is as a judge because his ridiculous, bland, unhelpful comments are funny but that was so out of order.


How weird is it that suddenly Simon had become the nice judge? Granted they're his acts but I agree with him, the rest of them are just not giving credit where credit's due with Danyl and Afro and it must be because they're such strong contenders and they're threatened and playing mind games because it's nonsensical. Especially the Danyl hate, I honestly don't understand it.

5 Cesc Fabregas
5 Iker Casillas
2 David Villa
10 Gerard Pique (2 animated)



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GERARD PIQUE PICSPAM - PART 2

Model pictures,with friends,press-conference etc.
( ~90 pictures of sex on legs under here )

I originally made this picspam a month ago,posted it to ontd_football and wanted to post it here too - but my bandwidth exceeded,oops!
But now it's also here :)

GERARD PIQUE PICSPAM-PART 1

It's rather big,so I split it into 2 parts - this part has 104 images,the second one has ~90

( early years,fans,teammates and misc )