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Jenson Button has taken this year’s F1 World Championship finishing in 5th place (from 14th on the grid). Barrichello, who was his cloest rival, suffered a puncture in the closing stages of the Grand Prix, but would not have been able to take the championship to a final round due to Jenson’s finishing position.

The finish also granted the constructors’ championship to Brawn GP, in their first season of racing.

The race was not without incident, with crashes galour towards the start, and a dramatic looking moment when Kovalainen took off from the pits dragging a fuel hose behind him, which promptly sprayed fuel over the car of Kimi Raikkonen. Luckily everyone was ok.

Congratulations to all!

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News just in is that Flavio Briatore, boss of the Renault F1 team has resigned his position, with the team deciding not to contest Nelson Piquet Jr’s allegation that he was told to crash in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix. Frankly I’m amazed. This will be a big blow to the team, and doesn’t really help the current turbulent image of F1 racing. There are no details yet as to who exactly was in on the decision. Potentially I suppose with the team boss leaving the full details may not come to light. The official press release says that no further comment will be made until the FIA council on 21st September.

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It comes to something when I find myself agreeing with Esther Rantzen, but on the new rules for registering people giving lifts to children, I am in that exact position. This is a continuation of a slippery slope of suspicion against adults that is growing way out of proportion. Fever over peadophilia has been whipped up so much, that we are in danger of suspecting every single adult of wanting to do harm to children, when the reality is that peados are – thankfully – a very small percentage of the population. Stuff like this registration process simply adds to an air of suspicion. How long before you are presumed guilty simply because you haven’t been through the vetting process yet? It seems like that’s where we are going.

Additional – 14th September, the Government are now re-evaluating this system, following a larger than expected backlash.

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I don’t often do posts about me on here, but for this I should make an exception. Baby Niamh was born to us last Saturday 8/8/09 at 5:58 am. She was 7lb 10. We’ve had her for a week now. She is currently sleeping whilst we wait for her grandparents to arrive.

So here I present one of the first photos of baby Niamh.

Niamh on the first day

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WordPress 2.8.3 has been released as a security-related recommended upgrade. The changes fix some loopholes that allowed direct access to a few WordPress include files. Everyone is advised to upgrade their copies as soon as. (Remember with newer versions you can generally use the auto-upgrade functionality especially if your host uses PHP5.)

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