Very nice little Flash puzzle thing. Remove the balls of the same colour by grouping them together…
TPS registration doesn’t affect cold calling from political parties. They’ll get short shrift if they ring me…
As mentioned before, Nathan Barley is on our tellies. Someone has lovingly compiled a cunt compendium of all the TV Go Home episodes, for which I am eternally grateful..
Found at zfilter
Robert Key should not be included in the Ashes starting XI. He looks like a jolly farmer and will have every weakness in his technique exposed by McGrath and Gillespie. IMHO there’s an obvious XI that has a real chance.
The camera phone, plus the desire to play with EXIF data and ImageMagick (and some prompting from Martin) have led me to write a little moblog thingy that let’s me post pictures from my phone while on the move…
BBC apologies for coverage of the Charles/Camilla engagement (or specifically for rearranging the schedule to cover it). Really? Surely it wasn’t that bad. It didn’t manage to knock the launch of the Labour (not really an) election campaign off the top news spot, anyway…
On which related point… Can anyone reading this really bear a 3 month election campaign? 3 months of question dodging, opposition bashing and overwhelming media saturation? There’s a risk that I may be forced to resort to weapons if it goes on that long. Is there any way I can opt out?
In previous years I’ve tended to get really excited by elections, but this year I can sense the bile rising already. The choice of either a Labour third term or a Conservative first does not fill me with anything other than horror. What worries me the most is that I can see Tony Blair claiming a “mandate from the people” from an election with a hideously low turnout and no effective opposition. Suddenly he’ll be telling us all that we really wanted ID cards, war in Iran, cessation to the US, etc etc because “if the people didn’t want it they’d have voted for someone else, wouldn’t they?”
It may be time to turn off my TV and radio and read something else on the tube.
I’ve only got one thing to say:
M. E. Trescothick
A. J. Strauss
M. P. Vaughan
G. P. Thorpe
A. Flintoff
K. P. Pietersen
G. O. Jones
A. F. Giles
M. J. Hoggard
S. P. Jones
S. J. Harmison
Bring on the Australians.
In an otherwise appalling series we’ve found a new star. 454 runs in 6 innings at an average of 151 and a strike rate of 105 runs per 100 balls. Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is a series to remember. Amazing that in his native South Africa Pietersen was considered a bowler who could bat. Didn’t we think the same about Andy Flintoff a few years ago?
Words fail me. What the hell has happened? So many penalties missed. The easy drop goal for victory fluffed.
The French played an appalling first half and should have been 23 points behind at the halfway mark; they were hemorrhaging penalties in the breakdown and kicking away possession whenever they had it. The fact that we missed 6 spot kicks is horrifying. The whole team’s at fault, but Charlie Hodgson alone missed 15 points and Ollie Barkley, who kicked when Hodgson’s confidence failed him, missed another 6. Hodgson’s failings have been the cause of our downfall before; he is the distillation of English rugby at the moment - flashes of brilliance in a mire of misplaced confidence, sudden nerves and simple mistakes.
Like I said last week - this year’s Six Nations belongs to the Irish. I just didn’t think we’d come 4th.