Archive for November, 2007

If you never check out my calendar, then you can ignore this post. For those that do, be warned, things will be changing over the next few weeks, and it may not be pretty for a while.
There’s a big drive to use the internal functionality of our calendar server for scheduling of my team [...]

Two little girls in our block of flats are making sure Father Christmas knows where to stop in a month’s time. The decorations have been up for about a week already, but the inflatable rising Father Christmas is a new addition this evening.

  
(Excuse the lack of focus on the second - I don’t have [...]

Interesting links for 25 Oct 07 - 23 Nov 07:

Beer set to hit four quid a pint - Noooo!!!
Vote To Eliminate Leap Seconds - Apparently people want to get rid of the leap second in favour of a leap hour in about 600 years time. You just know someone will forget to write this [...]

This weekend I got to experience two firsts and neither were dodgy in any way. I got to be part of a double wedding. No, not two couples getting married, but rather one couple getting married twice. Yup, twice. Our friends, Nu and Mark tied the knot on Saturday, and what a [...]

This is pretty amazing. Ebbsfleet United FC will become the first football club to be taken over by a fan website. MyFootballClub has agreed a deal in principle to purchase a controlling stake in Ebbsfleet United FC.
MyFootballClub members will have an equal say in team selection, player transfers and the general running of the [...]

Last night, whilst waiting for the re-run of Wednesday’s Heroes (brilliant TV series) episode, I encountered The Mighty Boosh on BBC 3 for the first time. Well, encountered probably isn’t the right word, I’ve heard about it before, but never actually watched a full episode from start to finish.
Now I have, I’m not sure if [...]

The face of cricket may be changing to pink. The powers that be at the MCC (the guardians of the rules of cricket) are in the process of starting trials of a pink cricket ball, with the hopes it will replace the white ball used in Day/Night, Twenty20 and one-day international cricket by 2009.
The [...]