On May 11th 2006 I was lucky enough to have tickets to Alan Shearer's Testimonial game against Celtic at St. James Park. Check out my gallery, for a few photos I took on the evening with my Mobile Phone of all things!
In my time trawling through google results for the answer to my questions I have stumbled upon an article in Google Blogoscoped - Why Good Programmers are Lazy and Dumb. This is really what I do and it caught my attention.
The basics of the article sum up the efforts that as a programmer I am [...]
Today I found out about the Amnesty International campaign named Irrepressible. It is a campaign to try and end the censorship enforced by some governments and some large web service providers on certain parts of the World Wide Web.
The Web is the first place where the mass populations can publish their own thoughts and [...]
It is the middle of a heatwave and not much is happening. I must admit while I enjoy warm weather and long evenings, I am not so keen on the extreme heat. I find that it tires me and leaves me with not much energy, meaning a lot doesn't happen.
Despite the heat, it was the [...]
It looks as if the use of my iPod may just get better. While good speakers for my iPod are expensive, the FM transmitters widely available may become legal in the UK in the coming year. It has been one of the most annoying thing is that some people do not use their discretion, everything [...]
I have a fairly vast and eclectic mix on my IPod. It ranges from the coolest jazz sounds of Miles Davis and John Coltrane through Mozart all the way to heavy rock anthems. This week I have added the Goo Goo Dolls album Let Love In.
I thought I might take a minute to mention what I was up to at work. My work is currently 2-fold. My role in continually updating the SK Chase system, is steadily growing. Following last month's launch of a fuller and inevitably more complex checkout and payment process, the next challenge is to make the [...]
Last night Italy became World Champions in a game that will not be remembered for the football but for one incident and one incident only! John Motson summed the game up at the start of extra time by saying about Zidane that he was still the best player on the pitch. It was a game [...]
It is final day in the world cup and France vs Italy isn't exactly an inspiring final. Both teams play in a similar way. Sitting back, giving the opposition plenty of the ball and trying to hit them on the break. It is difficult to see this as being anything other than a 1-0 win. [...]
The Edinburgh Festival is almost upon us again. One of the better sides of living in Edinburgh is that once a year, everything by way of entertainment comes to you. Whether it be opera, jazz, blues or any other sort of music you can think of; theatre; musical theatre; dance or comedy, the Fringe has [...]