Archive for October, 2007

As is common in a lot of households in the UK, Sunday evenings at 8pm is TopGear time. For those who don’t know, TopGear is the best car program I’ve ever seen and it’s broadcast on BBC 2 every Sunday at 8pm. This week’s episode has got to go into the history books as [...]

Check it out, the Kiwis have been knocked off the top spot for the first time in the history of the IRB world rankings:

Yes, I know, the rankings have only been in existence for a short time, but it’s the end of a 40 month rein for the All Blacks.
Now it would be [...]

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Woohooo!!!! The Boks have done it again. They’ve beaten England for the 4th time in as many months and taken the Rugby World Cup in the process. Nice one booooyyyyyyys. Pity there weren’t any tries (you know it wasn’t a try England), and even more of a pity Bryan Habana couldn’t set a [...]

Looky looky, even Google loves rugby.
Today’s google.co.uk logo is:

And Today’s google.co.za logo is:

We’ve been waiting for this great day since 18 September, and now we’ve only got a couple more hours to wait for what is going to be the best game in this year’s rugby world cup.
I’m all stocked up on beer. I’ll be popping out later to stock up on biltong, and then I’ll [...]

Interesting links for 2 Oct 07 - 18 Oct 07:

ASU team detects earliest modern humans - … and they found then in South Africa. So now everyone has a South African relative in their family tree ;-).
Amazon punts “special” beads to UK kiddies - NSFW: See what Amazon are now selling to kiddies in [...]

A colleague was browsing for loans on a popular price comparison website and happened to spot the following two CRAZY deals (the full results):

Who in their right mind is going to pay over 60% APR, let alone nearly 200%, when the lowest available is just 6.3% ?!
I know it’s hard for some people to get [...]