Cook will take singles all night.

Mashable on Apple’s CEO. Sound familiar?

Someone in this team is very, very good. A real talent in web design and development.

If you know anything about responsive web design/development, you’ll love this site. And even if you haven’t got a clue what I’m talking about, you’ll probably still like it.

It’s funny too.

Go check it out.

Sachin's saving 100th ton for ODI series "As a boy I dreamed of making 100 under lights in Cardiff wearing 3 sweaters in late September"—
Paul Kelso (@pkelso) August 22, 2011

Too good not to post. And to savour.

Tendulkar will get his 100th eventually, but I’m happy he didn’t in this series.

England dominated this series and Tendulkar not getting his record is just part of their performance.

Spinners, run-outs hurt Netherlands

So says CricInfo.

It also doesn’t help that we are basically not very good at this game.

This World Cup is lasting way too long already. When is Test cricket coming back again?

Telling it like it is!

You already know I am a fan of Willow TV right? Little things like this make me like them even more.

I'm watching the World Cup at Willow TV

The World Cup starts tomorrow. Time for you to choose where to watch the games online.

I have written several posts about cricket livestreaming and I am not going to repeat myself and rewrite them here. You can just go and check the category page for livestreaming to get some background on Willow TV and ESPN Player.

Because for this World Cup, it was one those two who were going to get my money. (Check out this post if you want to know why I don’t like those peer-to-peer livestreaming sites.)

Willow TV vs ESPN

As you may know, I have been a big fan of Willow TV for some time now, but I also love the high quality ESPN Player offers.

To me, when both livestream the events I like to follow, it has always been a matter of choosing between Willow TV’s multi-platform (now including PlayStation, Google TV, etc, etc ..), multi-channel livestreaming combined with an awesome on demand service and ESPN’s top notch quality, which allows for decent full screen watching.

But I haven’t had to debate this subject with myself this time. It was settled from the moment Willow TV promised a glorious 3mbps livestream for the World Cup.

Willow TV added extra quality to the mix and I was sold.

Money, money, money …

Well, until I saw the price they asked for their World Cup package: a staggering 95 Euro (129 us dollars) … Compare that the 14,99 Euro to watch the entire World Cup at ESPN and suddenly there was a whole new argument on the table: money.

Don’t get me wrong; the complete package Willow TV offers is probably worth all that money. It really is an impressive set of features, but I won’t use all of them and the World Cup doesn’t mean that much to me.

So all this means I subscribed to ESPN Player? You’d think so, but no. I made another switch and eventually went for Willow TV’s Blockbuster package for 2011.

Blockbuster

It is a great name for a great deal: the World Cup package and a monthly subscription for the rest of 2011. The price: 147 Euro.

No small sum indeed, but I would have probably subscribed to their monthly package anyway, which would have cost me about the same.

A win-win situation for me.

How about you? How are you going to watch the World Cup? Are you going to watch it online at all? Are you willing to pay for it?

As England battle it out against Australia at Lord’s cricket ground in an attempt to claim the Ashes, we witness the mastery involved – both on and off the field.

http://vimeo.com/17360378

And yes, it has been a while since I posted anything. Can’t be bothered that much with cricket at the moment.

A slight post-Ashes-dip probably, not helped by the fact it has been really busy at work and I just don’t care much about all those ODI’s.

Looking forward to watching the Netherlands at the World Cup though. Hope they can cause another upset like the one from 2009 (← watch the video in there )

Q: What is the difference between an Australian batsman and Cinderella?

A: Cinderella knew when to leave the ball

From Simon Hughes’ blog at TWC.

I just could not resist posting it.

Mostly because England are losing from Australia like they did not trash them during the Ashes. Which they did, big time.

the Aussies should have 18 counties, 460 pros, loads of Kolpaks who will never play for their country, 160 Twenty20 games a season and travel the length of the country between games. That is clearly way to do it.

via ASHES 2011: Bumbles Ashes view.

gin soak | Flickr | by-nc-nd

Paul Collingwood’s international career will be over very soon I’m afraid.

I hope he can keep playing for the ODI- and T20-sides for some time coming, but if he keeps batting like this, I do not see that happening.

And because of his poor batting form, we probably won’t miss him at all.

New players will come in, and Collingwood’s typical role as Brigadier Block is no longer in high demand for this England side. His grit seems to have rubbed of on his teammates and they can do without him.

His catching and bowling aided England in winning this series, but no batsman can keep his place in the side on just those qualities.

But even though I don’t believe England will miss him, I still feel sad, because he has been a great player to have around for England over the last few years.

Check out these posts from King Cricket and Edward Craig on what made him so good – and so likeable.