In March and February I wrote about personal finance software that I like in Ubuntu. I came to the conclusion that GnuCash was great, which it is.

However, GnuCash still requires effort. I have to either manually enter all transactions from my accounts or download a quicken file (or whatever my bank or credit card offers) that gets imported into GnuCash. I still have to manually edit the data once it's imported. This is true of all personal finance software.

I recently discovered a great online service, Mint.com. For basic tracking of your finances in bank accounts, investment accounts, and credit cards Mint does a lot in a great interface. Using Mint basically consists of signing up, and then submitting your user name and password for your online bank and credit card accounts. Once you're setup, transactions are imported and updated every time you login. Then the fun starts.

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I was at BigSoccer.com yesterday, reading the only thing worthwhile on the site, Dan Loney's blog.

By chance I happened to see another blog by Bill Archer who happened to have the Euro 2008 commercials that ESPN is using to promote the tournament. I'm pretty much stealing his links and posting them in my own blog for your viewing pleasure.

I'm really impressed with these commercials. For the first time, it seems like ESPN is catering to soccer fans, and not Joe Football fan or Bob Baseball fan.

Greece

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The Fall is the best movie I've seen in the last 3 years.

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My favorite sketch comedy show of all time is Kids in the Hall. The show ran in the 90's and had six seasons. Comedy Central still shows re-runs occasionally, but not as much as they used to. Since the show ended, the 5 members of the cast appeared in various TV shows and movies. I was thrilled when I found out they'd do a live tour so I pounced on tickets for their show at The Orpheum Theater in Downtown L.A.

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In the past week, this commercial for Nike has made its debut. Guy Ritchie directed it, and it's brilliant.

In honor of the brilliance, here are my other favorite soccer commercials of all time.

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Yesterday I was battling my sister across the country. We were on different teams, and I was trailing her with red shells. She kept dropping bananas and somehow wiped me out 3 times in a row. Around that point, I decided that Mario Kart Wii is totally awesome.

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First, a huge thanks to Matt.

Second, OMG THAT'S BILLY CORGAN, OF THE SMASHING PUMPKINS. I can't rank them as my favorite band ever because number 1 isn't high enough. They're beyond the top for me.

I got to hang around where Matt works (I have to keep a lot of stuff secret, and I even signed a confidentiality agreement) and watch Billy do his thing for a few hours. I didn't really get to meet him, but hanging around in the same room for 3 hours is totally cool. I have two pictures I can share. The others can't be published until the fall.

That's Billy's autograph on the lyrics for Muzzle, my favorite song ever. I'll probably mount this and frame it.

After Landon completed his hat trick for LA on Saturday, the Chivas bench was greeted by this.

If you don’t like me jumping to celebrate, then don’t let me score--Landon Donovan

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