France 2 - England 1

Watching Alistair MacGowan actually being funny, The BBC Licence Fee.
Seeing the England team preen themselves in “The Sun,” 30p.
Laughing at the strategy of Sven Goran Erikkson in “The Times,” 45p.
Watching France score two goals in injury time…
…Priceless.

Euro 2004 and the Best Moments in Football

Euro 2004 approaches, and the optimisim is so thick in England you’d think the official song was “Ally’s Tartan Army.” But please, sympathise with me. This is a very painful time for most Scots. We can see that Sven is as useful at a game of Risk as Claudio Ranieri, that you don’t have a […]

The (Harry) Houdini Museum

This BBC Article (and the same news in Metro) was something I read when I couldn’t post to this blog last month. What really got me was this quote from the Curator.
BBC: By telling people how this trick works, we’re giving people a deeper meaning of Houdini.
Metro: People appreciate magic more when they know how […]

NotCon Thoughts (It’s Over!)

Well, NotCon is finally over. Yesterday (Sunday 6th June) saw the first NotCon, or the sequel to Extreme Computing 2002, or the British equivalent to O’Reillys Emerging Technology. But whatever you called it, it looks like everyone actually enjoyed themselves at the event.
Probably the two best indicators from an organisers point of view, is that […]

Blogging Back On-Line

“Good evening, Rafe. Everything’s running smoothly.”
If you can see this, we’ve managed to fix MT and everyone on Symbian Diaries can start blogging again. Yaay!

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