Wikipedia has been in the news a lot recently, and the ‘fifth column‘ in the Guardian had another story today, this time about political staff changing the entries for their bosses. Two statistics in there really made me stop and think. I don’t know where they came from, or whether they are correct. If they […]
Entries from February 10th, 2006
How many web sites do you need?
February 10th, 2006 · Comments Off on How many web sites do you need? · Technology
Tags: Internet·Statistics
African Cup of Nations
February 10th, 2006 · Comments Off on African Cup of Nations · Life
I caught hardly any of the African Cup on Tv this time round, despite the generous provision of coverage, but two things which I did see stand out. Mido getting substituted was brilliant television. Most players do not like being substituted, but Mido took it further than everyone else by having a stand-up row with […]
Tags: Football
RIP Ron Greenwood
February 10th, 2006 · Comments Off on RIP Ron Greenwood · Life
Ron Greenwood deserved to be a lot more of a household name than he was. The fashionable thing to say is that he won the World Cup for England before he became manager, through his nurturing of Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters at West Ham and it may be true. What is beyond […]
Varied tastes
February 10th, 2006 · Comments Off on Varied tastes · Life
Andrew at Bloggers4Labour is obviously quite a clever bloke with computers and has loads of nifty bits of code on his site. One of the simpler bits is the box in the sidebar which pulls out three random books from his library on librarything.com but it did make me laugh the other day when it […]
Tags: bloggers4labour·Books
