What is Magilton putting in their half-time cuppa?

29 Sep 2006: 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 at home, because all the blummin’ goals there seem to hit the net in front of the North Stand, but I’ve only just realised our first half goal drought extended to away games too. This season, time of Ipswich goals (league): 01-15 mins: 0 16-30 mins: 1 31-45 mins: 1 FIRST HALF TOTAL: 2 46-60 mins: 2 61-75 mins: 5 76-90 mins: 5 SECOND HALF [...]

We have to hear that question from them, now

28 Sep 2006: 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 change message of the movie though. I want to comment on Al Gore’s optimism in the face of the evidence he presents. This truly is a man who comes over as a glass-half-full kinda guy. I brought away two revelations from the film: firstly, that whilst the economic system that created climate change might be flawed, and perhaps the corporations which support that system, the [...]

Healthy Start

25 Sep 2006: 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 Sep 2006: 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 get very irritated by people who consider it a right to be given masses of traffic or masses of AdSense revenue by Google, completely free of charge. If that free gift then gets withdrawn, they start talking about legal action, or “fighting back” against Google (ha ha). Get over it. Almost by definition, free gifts are privileges, not rights. Whilst I’m at it, anyone who [...]

MisGuided Bus: a sad day for democracy

7 Sep 2006: 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 elephant on our county, and cause irreparable damage to our local transport infrastructure at the same time. The most progressive way of taking traffic off the A14 would have been to have rebuilt the railway line to Huntingdon and connect it up fully to the East Coast Main Line there. But proponents of that option didn’t dare campaign for such a scheme, because the estimated [...]

43 inches – I think I got away with it

5 Sep 2006: 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 R, once she’d seen what was available) a speaker set which didn’t involve five boxes and a lot of cable. For the screen, the forums told me that I could probably get away with something as large as a 43-inch, but that anything larger in a room four or five metres across would run the risk of being too large (in that you’d start to [...]