Oracle ‘A’ lister and Scottish football fan, Doug Burns, was celebrating last night as he hoisted the inaugural ‘Champions League Bingo’ trophy aloft in an Edinburgh pub. Burns commented: ‘Obviously I am surprised and delighted to win this cup. I had never played before but the cliches just kept on coming. It was unbelievable. I was in a noisy pub and I had to ask the bar staff to pump up the volume and my friends to stop talking but it was worth it’. ...

Referrer traffic from TailRank. Nothing too remarkable about that but an absolutely fantastic opportunity for a Viz style subject line. Finbar Saunders

To liven up tonights Champions League Final between Arsenal and Barcelona, score the following number of points for each and every mention of the following: 1 - The English clubs who have won the European Cup (MUFC, Liverpool, Nottingham Forest). Score double for Aston Villa. 2 - The Scottish club who have won the European Cup (Celtic). 2 - Patrick Viera. 3 - Sol Campbell’s ‘state of mind’. 4 - The fact that Barcelona have only lifted the trophy once. 4 - Thierry Henry’s future (‘Staying’). Score double for ‘Going’. 4 - Price of blackmarket tickets outside the stadium. 5 - Idiotic Norwegian linesman who donned a Barcelona shirt. 5 - Arsenal already qualified for Champions League thanks to ’that lasagne’. 5 - He’s only played twice this season (Ashley Cole). 10 - ‘EEENNN- RRREEE !!!!’. Score double if Martin Tyler actually reaches a climax. 20 - Pitchside analysis at half-time from Townsend/McCoist. Score double if fans manage to drown it out. 20 - Only he (Ronaldinho) could produce that. 25 - Sven Goran Eriksson will be pleased/shocked/worried/annoyed about that. Score double for ‘ashamed’. 1000 - Thierry Henry saying ‘I’m leaving’ in the post match interview.

BBC News 24 mistakenly interviewed the wrong man about music downloads. The original news story was funny enough but the actual footage (his face at the start of the interview) is absolutely hilarious. I sincerely hope the BBC reward this gentleman with the job he was applying for.

Originally, I was going to post about my visit last week to the Microsoft campus in Redmond on a training course. The technical workshop was excellent: there were some great presentations and interesting speakers; we covered a lot of material in 3 days; there was a refreshing lack of marketing fluff; there was a lot of hands-on practical exercises; I learned a lot; I met some interesting people and our hosts at Microsoft were very friendly and hospitable. ...