I never do these things, but this one actually interested me. So…

At the bottom of an entertaining profile of ESPN baseball announcer and Hall of Fame second baseman Joe Morgan, Chronicle sportswriter Steve Kroner notes:

For the first two games at SBC Park, A’s and Giants fans have a choice of telecasts. At 7:15 tonight, Hank Greenwald and Ray Fosse will work the A’s telecast on KICU (Channel 36) while Duane Kuiper and Krukow handle the Giants’ telecast on FSN Bay Area. At 5 p.m. Saturday, it’s Miller and Krukow on KTVU (Channel 2), with Greenwald and Fosse on FSNBA.

Unfortunately I’m working tonight and Sunday evening, so the only game I’ll be able to watch will be Saturday’s. It’s likely that I’ll keep it on FSNBA, as I’m much more partial to Krukow and Kuiper than Hank Greenwald.
Ray Ratto also weighs in on what it will take to make these games at all interesting.

This weekend will be the eighth annual Sunset Celebration Weekend at the magazine’s compound in nearby Menlo Park, and, of course, we’re going. We went last year. This year, the architect behind the Glidehouse has a new attraction: the Sunset Breezehouse (reviewed here by SF Chronicle architecture writer John King), and we’re looking forward to seeing it. All we’d really need is land, lotsa land, under starry skies above. And $300K or so, which we could easily get–and then some–for our townhouse if we sold it.

Also, the Giants (suck) and the A’s (also suck) will be playing each other this weekend. I, the sucker for punishment, will be watching Saturday and Sunday’s games. The Giants’ “Double Play Ticket Window” wanted between $200 and $500 for a pair of seats to Saturday’s game. At least one of the two teams will actually win a series.

I’ve preached the Gospel of Opera for some time, and now you can learn about this excellent Web browser/email client/newsreader/newsfeed reader in “30 Days to becoming an Opera8 Lover”. The site author is as of this writing up to Day 14: Panels.

Panels are not new in Opera8, but there are some new features present since Opera7 was introduced. Today we will look at what panels come with Opera, as well as some other customized panels made just for you.

Previous topics include Chat, RSS and Atom, User JavaScript, and Preferences. A bit dry in topic, perhaps, but the writing style is entertaining and the information is very useful–I even picked up a couple of tips.

I don’t often get political here–not too often–but this certainly bears mention. As part of the bogus “Oil-for-Food” Senate hearings, British MP George Galloway tore into Senator Coleman and the neocons in a remarkable statement which can be found here at the Times Online, and an audio clip containing the most damning segment was linked from Brad’s Blog. Brad also links to a RealPlayer video clip, which I haven’t watched.

If the above sounds like boring Senate committee testimony of the type you skip over when CSPAN somehow makes it onto your TV, take a second and read the transcript or listen to the audio clip anyway.