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Mo Mowlam

19 Aug 2005: This is getting depressing. Look, if someone has to go, why can’t it be one of the bad guys?

Robin Cook

8 Aug 2005: Why is it always the good guys?

Ipswich Town 1 Cardiff City 0

7 Aug 2005: A very satisfying start to the season, given the way that most teams (especially Ipswich) often look so disjointed at this stage. Cardiff will punch above their weight this season, with a decent manager and a lot of experienced players, and we can probably count ourselves fortunate to have got them right at the beginning while they’re still getting sorted. They were a solid opposition, and it was a good win. Full Ipswich v Cardiff report…

One more ticked off on life’s checklist

6 Aug 2005: What is it about supporting a football team which suspends all rationality and common sense? The company I work for, with my encouragement and the support of fellow directors, is “sponsoring the kit” of Ipswich Town’s reserve goalie this season. Why? Because it’s a great bit of publicity? Hardly. It just gives us an absurd thrill to see something of ours in the team’s match programme each week. I’ve always looked at that page and thought: “who are these people who spend all that money?” But I’ve also always secretly harboured a desire for it to be me one day. Now it is.

The Girl Who Couldn’t Do Any Wrong

1 Aug 2005: Yep, it was another cracking Cambridge Folk Festival. There can’t be a better music festival in the UK, can there? Everyone seems to have such a good time, there’s no trouble, and the atmosphere simply couldn’t be any more relaxed. So, what were the highlights? Kate Rusby was as adorable as ever, and launched her new album The Girl Who Couldn’t Fly a month ahead of it being in the shops. Needless to say, plenty of us (several hundred, in fact) were besotted enough to queue up for over an hour to get their CDs signed: Also memorable from the weekend, for me anyway, were KT Tunstall, who justifies the hype, and Idlewild, who played a low-key, small-stage “acoustic” set, [...]

Woo. Cambridge Folk Festival is back.

28 Jul 2005: I do love the Cambridge Folk Festival, and we’re set for another great weekend here. Looking forward to The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Mavis Staples, Kate Rusby, Idlewild, KT Tunstall, Hayseed Dixie and the Peatbog Faeries.

Pneumatic grippers

7 Jun 2005: Not the most gripping of subjects, admittedly, but I’m just making this reference to pneumatic grippers from Bosch Rexroth as a bit of an experiment. These things are important, you know.

AutoCAD 2006 software review published

5 Jun 2005: Colin Mathews has been hard at it, and here’s another good piece from him: an Autocad 2006 review which should prove popular.

Well I’m not exactly skinny but…

31 May 2005: …I thought I’d better put out an update following the entry 3 months ago admitting that I was joining the “Fit Camp” at the health club. It’s gone brilliantly! Started Fit Camp at 14st 11lbs, ended it six weeks later at 14st 4lbs. Also lost 2.1in from my waist! Six weeks further on still, and naturally, although I haven’t kept up the exercise or diet regimes quite to Fit Camp standard, things have improved significantly on both fronts and another 4lbs has gone. Check back to see if I can hit my target of 14 more lbs over the next seven months.

I’ve just been told who to vote for, on the web…

15 Apr 2005: Your expected outcome: Labour Wrong! Your actual outcome: Labour -12 Conservative -53 LibDem 69 UKIP -21 Green 22 You should vote: Liberal Democrat The LibDems take a strong stand against tax cuts and a strong one in favour of public services: they would make long-term residential care for the elderly free across the UK, and scrap university tuition fees. They are in favour of a ban on smoking in public places, but would relax laws on cannabis. They propose to change vehicle taxation to be based on usage rather than ownership. Take the test at Who Should You Vote For

With Rupe on My Side

26 Feb 2005: Looks like the Lynne Truss Backlash is well under way, brought to you courtesy of Sky Sports (and the landlord of The Rock, Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge, who must have thought when the banner arrived that at least it would be a talking point).

Good work, Sky One

24 Jan 2005: Having just watched the concluding episode of the first series of the Battlestar Galactica remake, I went on to the net to find out if and when the second series was coming. I assumed (as you would) that the Americans had seen the first series months ago, and if there was a second series, it might have already started there. That’s what we’re used to, after all. Wronggggg. Amazingly, it’s only just started there, as this report discusses. Yes, folks, somehow Sky One got the series weeks ahead of the USA. Astonishing. So for once, I couldn’t find out if a series is worth sticking with by reading the opinions of those who’ve seen it through in its entirety. I [...]

I love clever mathematical tricks…

15 Jan 2005: …and this is a lovely implementation of one. Top marks, that man.

Blobs? Cosmic Blobs!

20 Dec 2004: Colin’s done another great piece, a Cosmic Blobs review. This wild and wacky piece of software could actually turn out to play a great role in education.

Things to make the world a better place

4 Dec 2004: …part 45,308: teach women how to turn a mobile phone on. Look, the power is (virtually) free, why DO they all switch their phones off when they take them out with them? “Er hi, just replying to your message earlier today, sorry, I had my phone switched off”. Why? WHY?
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