Hokies football opener this Saturday

Virginia Tech football season kicks off this Saturday 12pm ET against East Carolina. The game will be broadcast live by ESPN.

The season schedule is here.

Read more about Virginia Tech’s lunch pail tradition

OnMyList web widget

I have added a web widget to OnMyList. Check out how it looks on my sidebar. If you want to add this cool little eye catching widget to your website, follow these steps:

1. Create or login to your account at OnMyList
2. Click your username in the top right corner to go to your profile page
3. Under “Edit Profile” and next to “Change Password”, click “My Widgets”
4. Click “Create New widget”
5. Customize your widgets as you like
6. Click “Generate Widget Code”
7. Preview your widget to make sure it looks good
8. Click anywhere in the widget code box to copy and paste the HTML code to your website
9. Show off your widget and OnMyList love by telling all your friends!

Right now the default theme is the same as the cool theme as I did not have enough time to create more themes. If you are feeling creative, feel free to modify the CSS stylesheet that your browser downloads and send it back to us. We will consider adding your design to our theme selections and give you credit by showing your username next to the theme.

If you find any problems, please let us know.

OnMyList has moved to Amazon EC2

The EC2 migration went very smoothly and it is running rock solid. Big thanks to Andrew Ng and Jeff Coppedge for their flawless migration efforts, Jeff Rector for the amazing performance tricks. Check it out at OnMyList

We encourage you to hit it hard so we can see how it performs under heavy loads.

Yi Jianlian is going to play in the NBA this season

According to ESPN, Yi Jianlian has finally signed with the Milwaukee Bucks to play next season in the NBA. I am happy and excited to see if he can play at this level.