Do you like hairy, sweaty Essex boys1 making themselves even hairier and sweatier?
Um. Let’s start that again.
Do you like gorillas?
Then check out my idiot colleague good friend Chris who is running in this year’s Great Gorilla Run and sponsor him
[1] Though if you do, Chris would probably like to hear from you and an introduction could be arranged.
So I found this file, last modified 10 June 1997, on a set of back ups and it’s a pub quiz that I ran in Balliol bar. In fact considering the date I suspect that this is the night that ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
pink_weasel first clapped eyes on me and thought “nice guy, shame about the jumper”.
People on facebook and twitter said that they wanted to see the quiz, so here goes.
Read the rest of this very true thing…
That was far too close for comfort. Wales made far too many errors and only two good tries saved the day.
relievedYes. Result.
My prediction before the tournament started was that it would be scrappy with no grand slam. Scrappy it certainly is, as for the rest? We’ll see.
pleasedI’ll say that again, Grand Slam.
jubilantWell, how about that then?
jubilantI met Jeremy Beadle once. He was hosting a charity quiz night that WW sent a team along to.
No one had him on their lists for this year’s Deadpool game.
This morning we launched a revised version of the Visit London home page. Along with a tie up with Trip Advisor, a new Japanese site and a site for the China in London season, as well as lots of behind the scenes improvements, it’s been a really packed January.
One thing that crosses over from behind the scenes to public is the addition of microformats to the site. hCard, hCalendar and hReview are all in use. Whilst hCard was straightforward to implement I found the hCalendar and hReview formats a little tricky to apply to our data. Anyway, install Operator and take Firefox for a whirl on the site and see what you find.
Rugby tomorrow. Oh yes, it’s Six Nations time again.
accomplishedEngland beat Australia and France beat New Zealand?
Have I slipped into a parallel universe?
shockedDreadful first half. Much more promising in the second half.
Why is the South Africa match on ITV1 and the Wales and Scotland matches on ITV4? I don’t think I’ve ever watched ITv4 before, the reception is, predictably, only adequate. (I live very close to the Crystal Palace transmitter, is my dreadful digital reception due to interference from analogue signals? In other words will things get better or worse when they switch the analogue signal off?)
Oh, and itv.com need to get a clue. System requirements to watch the match online are:
I have all that, but why should I need to use IE and WMP when I have far superior alternatives? This is 2007 and insisting that people use a precise combination of four proprietary technologies is so last century…
Do ITV actually want anyone to watch the Rugby?
restlessSo I’ve managed to have two weeks off work and not make a single blog post. Okay I was out of the country and off the www for three days but still, it’s shocking.
Have I turned into one of those bloggers who only posts to talk about how they’re not posting? Oh dear.
The world cup starts today. Wales don’t really stand a chance. Fingers crossed that they don’t fuck up the group matches and finish second behind Australia. Then it’s England or more likely South Africa and that’s probably that.
I’m not sure about the new White Stripes album.
I fixed the broken shower. This makes me feel all manly and capable and productive.
Amsterdam has a ridiculous number of shoe shops – be aware of this fact if you plan to take your wife or girlfriend there. Also, as everyone speaks English there are a number of English language bookshops and even the Dutch ones have English sections, and apart from Waterstones (which presumably is supplied and priced like a UK branch) the prices are good.
Speaking of books, I attended the launch for Stuffed and Starved by my old university mate Raj.
A war between an authoritarian government and a set of independent planets. The central government wins. Our heroes were amongst the fighters on the independent side. Meanwhile a remote planet is devastated by a chemical that causes the population to become wildly violent. Not actually a summary of the background to Serenity but actually the background to the old roleplaying game Living Steel that I picked up from eBay recently.
Oh, I’m flogging some stuff on eBay. Only Star Wars miniatures at the moment but I hope to list a few books and vids plus some other miniatures over the weekend.
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