If the local papers are to be believed, things are not looking good for Crawley Town. The owners are talking about going into administration and selling up. Even if someone buys the club and can afford to put a team out next season, we will be starting with a 10-point deduction for going into administration. […]
Entries from May 31st, 2006
Catch it while you can
May 31st, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life, Technology
The website referred to in this story from the news yesterday can be found here at the moment, but obviously there is a chance of it disappearing since it is subject to a police investigation at the moment. Comments have been disabled, but there is a lively discussion about it here. The BBC call it […]
Herceptin
May 31st, 2006 · 1 Comment · Life
There was an interesting article on the BBC website today about the use of statistics – a subject which has always interested me. It talks about shampoo and obesity figures, but ends up on the topic of Herceptin. I am not a scientist and I am not a doctor, but for a while I have […]
Tags: Maths·Medicine/Health·NHS·Statistics
Thales
May 31st, 2006 · 3 Comments · Music, Work
Until today, Thales only meant two things to me: the Greek philosopher and the French defence group which owns the company I work for, but this morning a colleague sent me a link to yet another Thales – this time a Finnish "melodic death metal" band. I know. Finnish death metal… its all the rage […]
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Busy Bee
May 30th, 2006 · Comments Off on Busy Bee · Life
I was absurdly pleased to be able to get some decent photos of a bee in the back garden this afternoon, while it was busy sniffing around Jayne’s chives. Even more pleased that, of a dozen attempts, six were very respectable. Given the way the little chap kept flitting from one flower to another I […]
70s Cinema
May 30th, 2006 · Comments Off on 70s Cinema · Life
One of the movie channels was showing Deliverance the other night. I started watching it, even though it I had missed the beginning. It was a timely reminder of just how good cinema was in the 70s but also how all those masterpieces would probably never get past the test screening audiences now. Two things […]
Tags: Films·Nostalgia·Schooldays
Free Entertainment
May 29th, 2006 · Comments Off on Free Entertainment · Politics
On Friday I went to see the free entertainment offered by the annual council at the Town Hall. I was not an invited guest so only stayed for the meeting and not the nibbles afterwards. I didn't expect to be invited of course. The last two Labour mayors didn't invite me, so why should the […]
Tags: Crawley Council
Going back home
May 28th, 2006 · Comments Off on Going back home · Life
We went up to Essex today – not actually to my old home in Basildon but to Southend, a little way down the road. (Southend. Home of the famous Kursaal, where Dr. Feelgood were filmed playing live in 1975, available on a superb DVD called Going Back Home.) We were there for my niece’s birthday […]
Poetic justice in action?
May 28th, 2006 · Comments Off on Poetic justice in action? · Life
Colin Watson proves that he is no Keith Richards, in the most ironic death so far this year. Incidentally, I have just been reading Bill Hicks' opinion of Keith Richards: that he is someone who doesn't just live on the edge but went right over – and then landed on a ledge. Sounds right to […]
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Curb Your Enthusiasm
May 27th, 2006 · 6 Comments · Life
We recently finished watching the box set of the first series of Curb Your Enthusiasm. I loved it, but Jayne found it hard to watch, and she found it hard to watch for the exact same reason that I enjoyed it so much – the cringeworthiness of Larry David. His character in CYE has many […]
