Monthly Archives: June 2010

Longest recorded tennis match

I thought I would note this one down – after a week of sunny Wimbledon tennis (normally quite a sporting event on TV here, but largely eclipsed by the World Cup this year) – we’ve got Andy Murray still in as the last Brit standing, and we’ve experienced the longest tennis match ever recorded.  Both [...]

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WordPress 3 released

For those of you running WordPress as your blog software, you’ll most likely have noticed the automatic update bar suggesting that you click and update your software to version 3.0.  You should grab the new version now.  There’s many new features in this release, including a new standard theme and easy to use menus.  If [...]

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The missing goal

One of the benefits of HD is that you can see everything in wonderful picture clarity.  Except, that is, for a key goal in a World Cup match, when the show cuts to adverts by mistake.  (The coverage resumed shortly afterwards, to allow witness of a traditionaly flopish England start to the tournament.)

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Something Odd

I found this story about an attack by a fox on two babies to be a bit odd.  It just doesn’t sit right to me.  I mean, there’s the info from the pest control consultant at the end, for a start, where it describes the alleged attack as completely a-typical fox behaviour, there’s the notion [...]

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Finally, the last of the summer wine

Finally, after almost 40 years, the BBC are axing Last of the Summer Wine.  Thank god for that.  I can’t imagine a less funny programme, and I remember seeing this programme when I was younger and thinking that the name “Last Of”… actually did mean that that would be the last time we  would be [...]

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