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Dear Paul You are 32 years old and a fantastic footballer. You are still producing moments of breathtaking brilliance (lobbed pass for Rooney versus AC Milan). You are one of my favourite players at Manchester United. However, let’s face it. You can not tackle to save your life. If you get booked and United beat AC Milan tonight, you will miss your second European Cup Final. This would be hard for me to take so God knows how you would feel. Remember how it felt to walk around the Nou Camp in 1999 with Roy Keane in those grey suits. ...
Apologies for the delayed transmission but the events of last Saturday left me traumatised and deeply shocked. You might find it hard to believe that a once great club has been relegated to Division 2. You might even shed a tear for the diminutive, chirpy, cheeky Cockney who manages this football club. You might hope and pray that this sleeping giant makes a rapid return to the heady heights of, err, the Championship. ...
‘How’s your curry, darling ?’
A blog post in the classic retro style of ‘Dear Diary’. Stay tuned next week for relationship woes, football reports, psychotherapy, unexpunged details on my health, teenage angst, my current mood, the music I am listening to and why I am going to be quiet for the next 13 days. Or, as Mark E. Smith of The Fall, once said to requests for ‘Bingo Masters Breakout’ ‘Are you still doing what you did 5 years ago ?’ ‘Yeah - well don’t make a career out of it.’ ...
Dust off that blogroll. Highlight your best technical posts. Update that photo in the ‘About’ tab. Polish the colours on your theme. Prime the hit counter and prepare for an invasion from the Web 2.0 ‘A’ listers. Justin Kestelyn (Oracle Technical Network) sparked some an interesting and though provoking discussion when he puzzled over the relatively low profile of Oracle Corporation in the Web 2.0 community. Robert Scoble picked up the thread (twice) and there are some interesting comments. Certainly, I’d love to see a Scoble podcast from Oracle Corporation. ...
The climax of the football season is currently dominating my life somewhat. However, I feel obliged to inform the world of my exciting plans for the next fortnight. Following next week’s UK Bank Holiday, the scheduling goddess informs me me that I will be doing a ‘brown bag’. This means that next Tuesday will see me wandering aimlessly around the shopping precinct in Reading, spontaneously shouting at shoppers while clutching four cans of Special Brew in a brown bag. ...
I received a summons yesterday for non-payment of council tax. Ah well. It was good while it lasted. I reckon at £1,000 each year for 10 years residence at this address, I probably saved in excess of £10,000. Still, all good things must come to an end. What a pity those rotters at the council caught up with me. Then I realised - I already pay my council tax automatically by direct debit to fund the firemen, refuse collectors, recycling collections, the lengthy queues at the tip on a Sunday morning, the multitude of speed bumps and liquid lunches for the fine councillors of this parish. ...
I am very lazy. It takes a gargantuan effort for me to maintain motivation and continue making material up for this blog. Therefore, actually sitting down, in my own time, to compose a letter to appeal against a £20 fine imposed by Transport For London on my 14 year old daughter, Norma Jean, was not a task I undertook lightly. I didn’t appeal because I can’t afford the £20. I didn’t appeal because I think my daughter is above the law. ...
Not content with writing excellent books, helping Oracle customers, maintaining his blog, presenting at technical seminars, traveling around the globe, family commitments and managing asktom.oracle.com, the workaholic Tom Kyte has now released a streaming media player.