Month: April 2007

Leyton Orient 1-3 Nottingham Forest

Leyton Orient 1-3 Nottingham Forest

It’s not often Leyton Orient get to play former European champions, so it’s no surprise that the last home game of the season was going to be a sell-out. Orient went into the game needing to win, or for Bradford to lose, to guarantee a place in League One next season. Forest needed a win, …

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Earthquakes, the English way

Earthquakes, the English way

I’m disappointed that we couldn’t feel anything of the 4.3 magnitude earthquake in Kent from east London at 8:18 this morning (although I admit I was barely awake then). However, the reports coming onto the BBC site show exactly how the English cope with these kinds of events. Compared to the recent earthquake in Japan, …

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Poor phishing attempt

Poor phishing attempt

I received a phishing e-mail claiming to be from the Co-op and, for a change, I actually looked at the link. Strangely, the link was FTP (not HTTP) protocol and contained a username and password. So, instead of clicking on the link, I opened it in my FTP client and lo and behold I was …

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Posh bloke getting cold calls

Posh bloke getting cold calls

This is very funny. The posh bloke keeps getting calls from “Glaze-u-like” to be sold double-glazing, but unfortunately he’s got nowhere to put one… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10LdaoDNjoM]

Regular expressions: a misnomer

Regular expressions: a misnomer

Why are regular expressions called regular expressions? Two regular expressions that achieve the same result can often look completely different, so what’s so regular about that? And also: they’re not even expressive. Who can really understand what /(<[^href]*href=(\"|'))([^(\"|')]+)(\"|')/ does off the top of their head? (Okay, I admit it's semi-obvious that it's something to do …

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Exponetic poker night

Exponetic poker night

Last night we had the first ever Exponetic poker evening. In attendance were (in clockwise order as we were sat around the table): Me Lucja Wszola Chris Sainsbury James Bebbington Nick Grimshaw Ben Isaacs This was the practice hand and it’s difficult to tell from this shot whether James is bluffing or not: Chris was …

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Leyton Orient beat Bradford to safety?

Leyton Orient beat Bradford to safety?

Leyton Orient come back to London with an essential victory over Bradford today. Had they lost it would meant dropping back into the relegation zone by swapping places with the home team. As it was, a 2-0 away victory takes the O’s back up to 18th in League One and 5 points into safety with …

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Poker night warm up

Poker night warm up

The first ever Exponetic Poker Night is coming up on Friday so in preparation I have so far done the following: Bought some poker chips Watched the Cincinatti Kid Played my first game for months on Party Poker Taunted the opposition I think that’s all the preparation that’s necessary and I’m sure exactly the way …

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