The International Football Association Board has ruled out the use of goal-line technology and video replays.

"The door is closed. The decision was not to use technology at all," said Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke.

The decision was reached after watching presentations of two systems, Cairos - a chip inserted in a ball, and Hawk-Eye - used in tennis and cricket.

The Football Association and Scottish Football Association had both voted in favour of further experiments.

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Patrick Nelson, chief executive of the Irish FA, also backed Fifa's position.

"We very much appreciate the human side of the game, the debate, the controversy, that's why the board has taken this decision," he said.

Im surprised he wont get lynched when he returns to Ireland.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

then in the afternoon I removed all of the vertical branches and dead wood from the bramley apple tree at the end of the garden. So hopefully this years crop will be within reach and not fall from a great height on the ground and bruise.

then, feeling I had deserved it from both the dya's effort plus being on my alcohol free diet for a month I allowed myself to go to a beer festival nearby. But I walked, 7 miles in total (just over 10 km). I was already aching by the time I got to the pub. I was in pain when I got back despite the general anesthetic.

And I'm still ache-y today.

keep to the Fen Causeway

Otherwise, gray morning here in Monterey, listening to my wife singing along to Joni Mitchell as she whips up her own pancake batter from scratch. A Sunday morning tradition.

And the world will live as one

The first 10 minutes were a uh, adventure. Until you have a sliver of muscle memory on where the clutch starts to catch, you're not in control of the bike. I thought I had it down after a good 20 practice tries in the driveway without any throttle to make me move, but when I hit the throttle for the first time, holy shit. Uncontrolled acceleration straight toward a wall (this is where living in the suburbs with wide, flat streets would have been nice). So I recover from that somehow, head up the hill (good 7% grade), get it into 2nd gear, try for 3rd, and kill it. A car is coming up behind me, so I manage to roll it down the hill toward the curb without falling. After five or six tries on the hill start I get going again.

After that I had no problems at all. Low speed u-turns were easy and I had the clutch down. I went up and down the street 10 times then put it back in the garage.

Today: millman attempts to drive to the gas station and refuel.

you are the media you consume.

1. I haven't joined Facebook or had anything to do with it.

2. A person invited me to join, so I got an email (it's immaterial that I've never met this person, it just happens that we're on a mailing list and she kindly invited the whole list to be her friends...)

3. After the kind invitation from 2., Facebook reminds me that someone else invited me about three years ago. Well, I knew about that, and had at the time mailed that one separately to say thanks, but I don't want to join Facebook.

4. Next, Facebook tells me there are other people I perhaps know on Facebook. There follows a list of people I do in fact know. Some of them are ETers, others not.

The only thing these people have in common is that, at one time or another, they have corresponded with me at the email address I received the FB mail at, so that address is in their email address books.

So, when you join Facebook, do you give them the right to peek into your address book and collect non-FB members' addresses?