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There has been better commentary on web two, but none as succinct.

It was always likely, but to have one pull out and the other injured before they’ve even arrived in the country is the worst possible outcome. Gloucs overseas players are a right mess as Shane Bond pulls out and Hamish Marhsall is injured. That said, Marshall against SA has been fantastic, and it’s unlikely the injury will be long term. And it might mean we get Harv back for longer than we expected.

In Finland, where the words “nul points” are burned into the national psyche, they have decided to take radical action and appoint hard-rocking death metal band Lordi as their Eurovision entry for 2006.

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Possibly. And not in time for Sri Lanka. But still…

Giles sees end to injury crisis

Will the team that won the Ashes ever take to the pitch again? This is getting rather reminiscent of the 2003 Rugby world cup squad.

If this is what fishing nets you nowadays

The lobster catchers found 1,697 plastic bags packed with cannabis in a lagoon, Haveeru news agency reported.

A rather thought provoking (and wildly pro-Python) poke at the current state of Free Software. Remind me at some point to go on about Eggs, by the way. Same thing. But worse. ‘Cos they break the joy of Python.

A very quick one this time. Since going self employed my music consumption has gone through the roof. I’m working on my own most of the time and that means I can listen to whatever the hell I like as loud as I like. It also means that my taste is getting more catholic, and my curiousity often gets the better of me.

Two albums I could never have imagined owning a year ago are Sandie Shaw’s Reviewing The Situation and Johnny Cash’s At Folsom Prison. The first sounds hideously kitsch while the second is, well, country…

Both are true, but ‘Reviewing the Situation’ is a masterpiece of English psychedelic pop (her version of Led Zep’s Your Time Is Gonna Come is worth the price of the album alone) while ‘At Folsom Prison’ is one of the most powerful live albums I’ve ever heard and makes you realise exactly how close to the edge Johnny Cash really was, country or not. If you fancy a wander into the unexpected both are worth a try…

Seems the ECB have forgiven Headingley for whatever misdemeanour they had been deemed to have committed. There’s a Headingley test every year for the next 4. \\o/

Stop worrying about whether or not the producer of that Reality TV show you’re on will pixelate your carefully chosen t-shirt. Beat them to the punch with pre-pixelated products!

First thoughts on using the Audioscrobbler web services…. Two artists that have popped up in my playlist today have skewed data which rather surprised me (one very skewed, one only slightly)…

Similar artists for The Who include Bowie, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Yes and Elton John. For a couple of moments I sort of stared blankly until I remembered the Almost Famous soundtrack, upon which they all appear….

Worse still for Isaac Hayes though. Clearly some people listen to The Who who don’t own the Almost Famous soundtrack. Apparently almost no-one listens to Isaac Hayes except for the owners of the Kill Bill Vol 1 soundtrack.