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- links for 2007-11-30
Google Maps for Mobile Shows Your Location, Even Without GPS
Cue cries of: now they know where you are! Always!
(tags: google mobile news bigbrother paranoid)
- On footballing quotas
You won’t hear me arguing for restraint of trade very often, but in football’s case I think there are sound sporting reasons for a quota on imported players. I’m blogging about it - and the amazing news, courtesy of m’old defensive partner Edinburgh Mike (thanks Mike!) that there were more Scottish players than English turning [...]
- links for 2007-11-29
Video: The return of Max Headroom
Splendid idea… 80s Channel 4 icon Max Headroom is back, thinner on top, to promote digital switchover
(tags: television digital maxheadroom)
- More on Carphone Warehouse’s dodgy insurance sales
You’ll recall I bought my iPhone from Carphone Warehouse… and the salesman misled me about the need for very expensive insurance, telling me I wouldn’t be able to replace the iPhone should it get lost or stolen unless I bought their policy. I only got the truth when I called the company’s insurance helpline.
Well, I’m [...]
- Answers…
to questions being phoned in randomly by readers of this blog not - they insist - cheating in a pub quiz hundreds of miles away. Can you guess the questions?
1. Valencia.
2. The dish was 21m in diameter, and its contents fed 110,000.
3. Sir Winston Churchill (clue: something about pigs).
4. Charles De Gaulle (clue: something about [...]
- In Croatia for a memorable win
The waitress at our hotel here in Dubrovnik was so distracted by the prospect of last night’s England v Croatia match she walked into a wall rather than through a nearby door while carrying our supper in. The collision sent food and crockery flying, minutes before kick-off, but she was fine, and it was understandable.
Any notions that Croatia, already qualified, wouldn’t [...]
- An odd collection of pictures from my old mobile phone
My crappy old Nokia N80 gets turned off today for the final time, to be replaced by the lovely, shiny, battery-life-longer-than-a-day iPhone. So I thought I’d clear out the old pictures on the Nokia. They reveal obsessions with football, food, animals and silly signs. This can’t be right.
- This’ll be the post-mortem, then
The voice is recovering, the head clearing, the cat is back from under the bed. And we’re left confronting the damned obvious, but often overlooked. A final league table never lies.
The relegated team always remembers the dreadful goal conceded in the last game that condemned them to lower-league football - the one where the midfield [...]
- No, no, no - just don’t say that
I’m often asked: Neil, why are you such a miserable, pessimistic bastard?
Well, it’s like this. Scotland play Italy tomorrow at Hampden park, in Glasgow. Win, and we’re through to the finals of the European Championships - a fitting end to an incredible run of results that has seen us beat World Cup runners-up France in [...]
- Good grief
Britain’s debt and numeracy crises, explained in one story:
‘Cool cash’ card confusion“A LOTTERY scratchcard has been withdrawn from sale by Camelot - because players couldn’t understand it.
The Cool Cash game - launched on Monday - was taken out of shops yesterday after some players failed to grasp whether or not they had won.
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Tina Farrell, from [...]
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