Archive for September 2006

What is Magilton putting in their half-time cuppa?

29 September 2006 | Category: Entertainment

It’s extraordinary enough that we’ve scored two goals or more in each of the last six games, but even more so that Currie’s free kick on Saturday was our first goal in the first half since the opening day of the season. I was quite aware of how rarely we score in the first half [...]



We have to hear that question from them, now

28 September 2006 | Category: Entertainment

Rarely has a movie had as strong an impact on me as An Inconvenient Truth. Rarely have I seen a movie get as many good reviews as this one. All the more remarkable then that it’s just a relatively low-budget film of a guy giving a lecture. I don’t want to focus on the climate [...]



Healthy Start

25 September 2006 | Category: News/Media/Sport

Our new health service equipment news web site has launched, edited by Paul Buckley. It’s been most of the year in preparation, and it deserves to do really well.



Don’t take Google for granted.

19 September 2006 | Category: Gadgetry and IT

Whilst Google is not my favourite search engine at the moment, having applied an arbitrary penalty to my business web sites this summer, I’ll forgive the folks there for today at least. I do enjoy it when summary justice is delivered to people who just want to punch a gift horse in the face. I [...]



MisGuided Bus: a sad day for democracy

7 September 2006 | Category: News/Media/Sport

The commencement of buying up of land between Cambridge and St.Ives for the ridiculous “Guided Bus” scheme has brought home the fact that, incredibly, this absurd creation really is going ahead. Powered by the unstoppable combination of governmental ignorance and county councillors’ vanity, the “misGuided Bus” is set to plonk the most enormous concrete white [...]



43 inches – I think I got away with it

5 September 2006 | Category: Gadgetry and IT

As promised, a review of my new AV setup. Well, partially new. I decided to retain the old Denon DVD Receiver just as a DVD player for now, and there certainly isn’t any point in updating the indestructible Panasonic VCR. But I wanted a new screen, an internet source, and (after much nagging from Mrs [...]