Moss Side, near Manchester, England - Friday 22 June 2007 The hopes and dreams of the loyal and long suffering supporters of the popular football club, Manchester City, were cruelly shattered last night when the former Thai Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra suddenly withdrew from takeover negotiations and and unexpectedly deposited his £81 million from a brown paper bag into an unnamed Swiss bank account. In an exclusive interview, Mr. Shinywart explained: ...
Trevor Phillips makes an early (and unexpected) bid to succeed Bernard Manning.
Phew - what a relief. I often spend a night in the pub or a whole weekend at a beer festival and am completely flummoxed by such trick questions on my return such as ‘Well - what did you actually talk about ?’ or worse, ‘How are Janet, Jonathan, Jennifer and Jocasta ?’ A peculiar challenge for modern day parents: How do you ask your teenage son to tidy his room ? Seems straightforward but not so easy when he gave you the silent treatment for 10 whole years just because you gave consent for his tonsils to be removed. Let’s just hope his schoolmates don’t take the mickey out of his surname. ...
‘Oh look Henry. Over to the right. Isn’t that Nelson’s Column ?’
You never press ‘Publish’ any more When I read your feed There’s no articles like before In your blog You’re trying hard not to show it But baby, baby I know it You’ve lost that blogging feeling Oh, that blogging feeling You’ve lost that blogging feeling Now it’s gone, gone, gone Oh Tom Now there’s no comments In your blog when I read you And Tom you’re forgetting to comment Little things I do It makes me just feel like crying baby ‘Cause Tom, something beautiful’s dying ...
After a promising start, the recent introduction of Adsense on this blog is seriously floundering. I am bitterly disappointed with the financial returns in June and my wife is seriously doubting the wisdom of my decision to resign from a highly paid job in IT consultancy in favour of professional blogging on the kitchen table. Consequently, after an extraordinary board meeting, I have decided that desperate measures are necessary. I have cashed in my £12.50 Adwords vouchers bundled with my Bluehost account and launched a brilliant, inspired, marketing campaign aimed at driving traffic to this site, increasing e-commerce sales and boosting the click through rate. ...
I upgraded to a Virgin Media V+ service three months ago. Although I have had some initial teething problems, I am pretty satisfied with the V+ service. The V+ box is a personal video recorder (PVR) similar to the Sky Plus service. The V+ box contains a 160GB hard drive which can store 80 hours of recorded TV programs. Recording a TV program is very easy. You simply navigate through the 7 day TV guide, select the desired TV program and hit ‘Record’. You get the option to either record the individual broadcast or the series (if appropriate). ...
Lots of people stumble onto this blog hoping to find technical information, reviews and images of a black Virgin Media V+ set top box. I presume this is either husbands trying to convince the wife that the box will comply with the aesthetics in the lounge or geeks trying to look at all those connectors on the back. Whoever you are, whatever you are, these pictures are for all you people out there. ...
The Safari Web browser on Macintosh currently accounts for a paltry 4.34% of visits to this blog. It will be interesting to see whether this figure increases now Apple have released a version of Safari for Windows. I’ve downloaded Safari and while I like the fonts and appearance, I probably use too many Firefox add-ons to make the change permanently.
I was going to spend Saturday compiling very important guidelines for the formatting, style and content of comments but decided to go and watch the Ladies final and Men’s semi-finals at the Surbiton Trophy instead. I packed a lovely picnic (much to the envy of my neighbours), took a proper camera and enjoyed three matches in the sun: Brenda Schultz McCarthy (36 years old, 6 foot tall) beat Ayumi Morita (17 years old, 5 foot tall) in three entertaining sets. The eventual winner, Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, edged out the Australian 4th seed in a tight match featuring many impressive aces. Dodged for cover as 6'10" Croatian, Ivo Karlovic, smashed his way past a bewildered American, Robbie Kendrick (whose lovely girlfriend was sitting next to me).