I’m not sure whether Tony Blair popping across to Singapore for the Olympic bid (I reckon he’s just after picking up some cheap gadgets) is going to make a huge difference to our chances. After all, as far as I can tell most of the world hates us for following America into every war they …
“Crush chaos at Ikea store opening” It’s amazing what people will do to get their hands on some flat-packed furniture ahead of everyone else. Except, of course, it’s the same stock in every store… It must be all those Viking sounding cabinet names that have turned the crowd into warring barbarians. I think there will …
Two apparently unrelated stories: Army pilot rap over pizza flight “A lieutenant has been disciplined after using an Army helicopter to deliver a pizza to his girlfriend.” Anger over fireman’s ‘pizza trip’ “Sydney firemen were reportedly unable to answer a call-out because their fire engine was being used by a firefighter to collect a pizza.” …
Somehow I’ve gotten caught up in playing “Texas Hold ’em” online at Pacific Poker. I’m completely addicated already. (Admittedly playing for pretend money at the moment.) The game’s quite simple to learn and the tutorials at the Pacific poker school are excellent, not only at explaining the rules of “Texas Hold ’em up” but also …
I would have thought that if anywhere was going to be free from decisions based on faith rather than facts then it would be the world of IT. How wrong that seems to be. There seem to be a particular set of zealots in the computing world, especially around the internet, who have a reglious …
Working with PHP 5 I thought the ‘magic’ method __toString would be a really great way of substituting objects for simple data types. That seemed the whole point of good object oriented design, so I could change the way a piece of data worked without having to track down every call to it and change …
I don’t know if it’s just me, but it seems that every innovation or change in working practice in the internet industry seems to result in tasks taking more work and costing more money. CSS is a big gripe Supposedly, with the introduction of standards and the death of Netscape as a popular browser, the …
Martin Jol certainly seems to be doing the business at Spurs. I don’t know what it is, but he seems very well suited to the club and really keen to make some progress. It’s obviously working as well with one of their best unbeaten stretches for some time. Spurs news on the BBC Spurs official …
I was lucky enough to get a copy of “Rome: Total War” (“RTW”) for Christmas and, as an addict of “Medieval: Total War” (“MTW”) I was too excited even to install it for a couple of hours. (Actually, I rushed to conquer Europe in the medieval game; I knew there’d be little chance of playing …
A rather good curry I’ve tried the Brick Lane curry experience a few times now, as I live in East London and work in Bethnal Green, but have always been disappointed. I think out of the worst half a dozen curries I’ve ever had in my life, Brick Lane has accounted for about five of …