Archive from February, 2008
More taxpayer-funded misGuided Bus PR puffery
28 Feb 2008: Cambridgeshire County Council has made a couple of expensive-looking videos to promote the Cambridge to St Ives misGuided Bus – it would appear that a substantial portion of the staggering £100M+ budget for this huge white elephant has gone the way of PR firmsFirst news on Cambridge Folk Festival 2008
27 Feb 2008: They always manage to keep the lineup at the Cambridge Folk Festival pretty well guarded secret, at least until the day the whole lineup is unveiled. But in the last few years one or two acts have “accidentally” included Cambridge when listing their summer tours. This year we find Billy Bragg letting the cat out of the bag,Namechecked in the Eurostar Ebbsfleet advert!
19 Feb 2008: Yay. CherryHintonBlu (damn those 15-character name tag limits!) featured in the newspaper ads taken out by Eurostar today to celebrate the takeover of Ebbsfleet United.As Opposed To “Quite Fast”?
15 Feb 2008:Stephen Bywater says the c-word: video
1 Feb 2008: To say that I’m underwhelmed by my team, Ipswich, signing Stephen Bywater for the rest of the season is an understatement. As I wrote in a letter to Ipswich CEO Derek Bowden yesterday: I did not ever believe we would consider taking on a player who – at our own ground – had gestured to one of our players to come off and fight him in the tunnel (and who I understand was rightly questioned by police for this). A player who is a bit of an internet star for interrupting an on-pitch TV interview with moronic shouting into the microphone. And above all, a player who is now notorious for thinking it is acceptable to spell out the c-word [...]These ones got people talking
What else is new?
- iTunes Match – what happened when I tried it
- Cineworld: run by robots who just don’t care
- My Top Ten Movies of 2011
- Why you shouldn’t leave your passwords in your Will
- Our Experience of Moving House in Cambridge
- Virgin Media “Customer Service” lives up to its reputation
- In Defence of the Olympic Tickets System
- Brit Floyd, Cambridge Corn Exchange, April 2011
- The Unthanks, Cambridge Junction 2, April 2011
- TV Comedy Spin-off Books From The Eighties!
- Spamalot: my favourite scene
- Big upload speed increase from Virgin Media cable internet
- Album of the Year so far
- My Favourite Apps of 2010
- My Favourite Sporting Moments of 2010 (Part 2)
- My Favourite Sporting Moments of 2010 (Part 1)
- My Favourite Gadgets of 2010
- My Favourite Online Videos of 2010
- My Favourite Websites of 2010
- My Favourite TV Programmes of 2010 (Part 2)
- My Favourite Blogs of 2010 (Part 3)
- My Favourite Live Performances of 2010
- My Favourite Radio Programmes of 2010
- My Favourite Movies of 2010
- My Favourite Blogs of 2010 (Part 2)
Me Tweet quite a bit
- .@Stuart_Watson Hmm, it appears the #itfc customer charter ("best in league" says press release) is one of those not mentioning abandonments 1 hour ago
- http://t.co/DwSbxqVY Blimey, even the Telegraph thinks our council's crap. 6 hours ago
- Being joined at the football this afternoon by @tonyrand - 'twill be just like the old days. Although we were mostly crap then too. #itfc 6 hours ago
- Wha-hey! If anyone was in any doubt, Suarez IS a complete git. 7 hours ago
- Can I say that the ground staff at #itfc must be absolute miracle workers? 8 hours ago



