My Chi­nese lan­guage learning web­site is nearly ready. I’ve had time to invest in it recently, and I got some useful feed­back from friends who have pre­viewed the site. Once it’s ready, I need to edit the existing con­tent and pre­pare a gen­erous amount of ini­tial con­tent for a proper launch.

Mean­while, the first week of NFL games have been com­pleted. I real­ized that I forgot to make a pre­dic­tion for the winner of the San Fran­cisco / Ari­zona matchup. Based on my feel­ings about those teams, I prob­ably would have not expected the 49ers to upset the Car­di­nals, so I start at 0–1. Here are the other results:

• Steelers beat the Titans: and, just like last year, they play to their opponent’s level. Are the Titans that good? I guess we’ll have to see next week.
• Ben­gals lost to the Broncos: if not for that late game mir­acle, I would have gotten this one right. This is why they play the games.
• Texans lost to the Jets: Sanchez beat the odds, and the Texans still suck.
• Vikings beat the Browns
• Saints beat the Lions
• Colts beat the Jaguar: and I was right, it was close. It will be inter­esting to see how both these teams do in Week 2
• Ravens beat the Chiefs: the sur­prise here is how effec­tive the Chiefs offense was.
• Cow­boys beat the Buccaneers
• Patriots beat the Bills: but really, the Bills gave the game to the Patriots
• Pan­thers lost to the Eagles: and lost doesn’t even come close to describing it. Here’s the fun thing: could Vick become the Eagles starting QB?
• Giants beat the Red­skins: and it should not have been as close as it was.
• Sea­hawks beat the Rams
• Bears lost to Packers: and it was an inter­esting game.
• Fal­cons beat the Dolphins
• Chargers beat the Raiders: and it was much closer than it should have been. What’s up with San Diego?

Well, I am a very respectable 11–5 for this week. That was much better than I did last year at any point. Maybe now that I can watch ESPN at home, I am learning some­thing about sports.