Have got the car loaded up this morning with bike, clothes, food everything I can think of for tomorrow. Am leaving car in underground car-park at work tonight (24 hour security, am not worried) then cycling home for what will probably be the last time in 2007 . The weather's definitely on the turn - it was perishing cold this morning.
Good news is that the usual 8:30 Thursday meeting has been moved to 11am so won't be in such a rush in the morning. Plan to get up at 5:00 and set off about 5:30. Bonus eh!
Does this jacket/shirt/combo work??
Ages ago I mentioned getting a jacket off ebay. This is the afore-mentioned rust coloured casual item. Apologies for the out-of-focusness of it all - PJ took the picture and he'd only just got up so I'll cut him some slack!
I'd wanted to put a poll on the front page but this blogger functionality seems not to be working properly at the moment. I'd appreciate any feedback on it - so please leave a comment if I can't get polls working.
Derby County given some stick as Blackpool rock!
Derby County, oh we do like to lose to the seaside. If I’ve heard one seaside joke today I’ve heard it three times! Thanks John, Paul and Ted, your humour is greatly appreciated (no, really). But let’s be serious DCFC need a cup run like a hole in the head. We’re throwing the Premier League away with poor defending and it sounds like we did the same last night – leading 1-0 until the 86th minute of normal time and then leading 2-1 until injury time in extra time until they equalise then out on penalties. I didn't attend in any case - I remember going to see them get beat by Grimsby a few years back and swiftly decided I'd not waste any more money on cup games (fairweather fan eh!). It all sounds very much like when Phil Brown was at the helm wonder how long it’ll be before folks are calling for Billy Davies to go?? Roll on Liverpool at the weekend am predicting a riot of goals for Derby (I can dream as well).
Listen to this man!
Heard a guy called Vint Cerf on Radio4 this morning. At last!, a Radio 4 interview with someone who is intelligent, wise and able to communicate a message despite Radio 4’s policy of trying to trap interviewees into saying something negative all the time. Vint Cerf was described on bbc.co.uk as follows: “Vint Cerf is known as one of the founder fathers of the internet and played a key role in the development of the protocols which underpin the global net. He was a founding member of the Internet Society and is Google's Chief Internet Evangelist”.
Think it was John Humphries interviewing him and saying "but shouldn’t content such as the sort of thing with guns and happy-slapping etc. etc. not be allowed on the Internet" to which the man delivered a very good discussion on the dilemmas of censorship but neatest of all was a comment along the lines of “myspace and facebook are a reflection of society, what happens in society is being reflected on the pages of myspace. You don’t fix society by fixing the reflection in the mirror”. Sort of like that but better – people listening would have got the gist – you can listen again to it on BBC’s website.
Derby County, oh we do like to lose to the seaside. If I’ve heard one seaside joke today I’ve heard it three times! Thanks John, Paul and Ted, your humour is greatly appreciated (no, really). But let’s be serious DCFC need a cup run like a hole in the head. We’re throwing the Premier League away with poor defending and it sounds like we did the same last night – leading 1-0 until the 86th minute of normal time and then leading 2-1 until injury time in extra time until they equalise then out on penalties. I didn't attend in any case - I remember going to see them get beat by Grimsby a few years back and swiftly decided I'd not waste any more money on cup games (fairweather fan eh!). It all sounds very much like when Phil Brown was at the helm wonder how long it’ll be before folks are calling for Billy Davies to go?? Roll on Liverpool at the weekend am predicting a riot of goals for Derby (I can dream as well).
Listen to this man!
Heard a guy called Vint Cerf on Radio4 this morning. At last!, a Radio 4 interview with someone who is intelligent, wise and able to communicate a message despite Radio 4’s policy of trying to trap interviewees into saying something negative all the time. Vint Cerf was described on bbc.co.uk as follows: “Vint Cerf is known as one of the founder fathers of the internet and played a key role in the development of the protocols which underpin the global net. He was a founding member of the Internet Society and is Google's Chief Internet Evangelist”.
Think it was John Humphries interviewing him and saying "but shouldn’t content such as the sort of thing with guns and happy-slapping etc. etc. not be allowed on the Internet" to which the man delivered a very good discussion on the dilemmas of censorship but neatest of all was a comment along the lines of “myspace and facebook are a reflection of society, what happens in society is being reflected on the pages of myspace. You don’t fix society by fixing the reflection in the mirror”. Sort of like that but better – people listening would have got the gist – you can listen again to it on BBC’s website.
The link is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today4_20070829.ram
Note: the BBC’ll probably take it down in a week or so, so don’t blame me if the link stops working!!!
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