Month: October 2005

Cad monkey

Cad monkey

Although this is very relevant to my old architecture days, I think the message is going to be familiar to anyone who works in an office: change it to ‘Code monkey’ and the joke’s the same.

Leyton Orient 1-0 Oxford United

Leyton Orient 1-0 Oxford United

I was there when the mighty Orient went top of League 2. Ok, not for the first time, but it seemed important this time around. The lads done good, again, and excellent to see a clean sheet at home. BBC SPORT | Football | League Two | Leyton Orient 1-0 Oxford

Easily proved wrong

Easily proved wrong

Most fortune tellers stick to safe, non-verifiable speculations, but it seems that Punjihal, a 75 year old Indian fortune teller, predicted his own death. It turned out not to be true. Surely this must tarnish his reputation? BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Seer defies own death prediction

Telegraph Fantasy Football password

Telegraph Fantasy Football password

I reckon there’s going to be a stampede for the fantasy football password for this week (19th October onwards) now that Thierry Henry is back and looks to be in a goal-scoring mood. This week it’s HAMMER

Martial Arts Monkey

Martial Arts Monkey

Few things can lay greater claim to ‘do exactly what they say on the tin’ than Martial Arts Monkey. (Except for the fact it’s a chimp, not a monkey, but who cares).

Leyton Orient 1-1 Lincoln

Leyton Orient 1-1 Lincoln

The O’s have had a particularly succesful run lately and were sitting just off the top of the table going into the game, with a win giving them every chance of sitting top going out of the weekend. Orient started well, and dominated the first half. They were rewarded with a goal from Gary Alexander …

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Review of Souk Restaurant, London

Review of Souk Restaurant, London

I went to Souk last night, a north African restaurant near Covent Garden, and what a strange place it was. Lots of low seating, low tables, and general ‘aren’t we in a tent?’-ness. Except, it isn’t in a tent, and most of it’s in a basement. (A very Victorian feeling basement with brick arches and …

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McAfee customer support

McAfee customer support

I’ve been having a fight with McAfee. Or rather, I’ve been having a fight and they’ve been waging a war of attrition. Starting with an automatic renewal that I didn’t want containing two e-mail addresses to contact customer services on, both of which bring back an autoresponder telling me to go to the website for …

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