Another Week 1

Naomi has started blogging again and told her friends to check out my website, so I guess I should try and keep this up to date too. Alas, I have no photos to post on this entry. And the blog entry about my Canadian car will get pushed off the bottom of this page when ...

Free iPods

Yes, you can actually get a free ipod – I know people who have done it. Admittedly it is a bit of a pyramid scheme, but if you get in now you can still get an ipod. You just have to go to http://ipods.freepay.com/?r=25158422 and sign up for one of their offers. If you like ...

Foggy Hockey

Yesterday I went to see Coventry Blaze’s first game of the season, which was an exhibition game against Telford Tigers. Unfortunately, due to it being one of the hottest and most humid days for ages, it made the climate inside the arena slightly weird, with the glass panels round the side getting covered in condensation, ...

Amazon Recommends

I just looked at my DVD recommendations on Amazon, and it had a list of films which mainly looked the kind of stuff I’d like. But at number seven in the list it had ‘Bambi’. I clicked on the ‘not interested’ button, and the list was regenerated. What have they replaced it with, I wondered… ...

Shameful Blogging Record 3

My blogging record is becoming shameful. For the last three months I’ve posted less than one story a week, which is my usual aim. And I haven’t posted a single photo for ages. So I’ll try to mend my ways… I thought it would be reasonably apt to put a barbeque picture on here, since ...

Game On! 1

After a year of players and owners being idiots, they’ve finally got themselves sorted, and in October this year the NHL is back! Which is good news, but what is even better is that this October I’ll be in Calgary, so I’ll actually be able to go and watch the Flames playing! And what is ...

Bad News

76 people killed, including 22 children, in attacks in the north-eastern Kenyan village of Turbi. At least 26 Iraqis, almost all of them children, were killed in a car bomb attack in Baghdad on Wednesday. People in Pakistan are desperately trying to locate their relatives and friends after a train crash killed at least 132 ...