On the way back from a holiday in Yorkshire we drove through Bradford city centre.
I spotted two eco-firsts. A 2+ lane on the motorway (car share lane) and wind turbines and solar panels on the top of council tower blocks.
Interesting. Now build more……
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Being told of the “tremendous support” for the British canoers/kayakers before the start of each run they do.
Watching replays of action from just a few hours ago when it is obvious we didn’t win any medals - if we did it would be the headline story.
Watching Steve Redgrave and John Inverdale whisper as they present the rowing so as to avoid disturbing the Australian broadcaster Channel 7 and NBC who commentate in the pens either side of them.
Oh why? It’s the Olympics.
And the opening ceromony was faked, both the fireworks and the singing.
Tags: bejing 2008, china, Olympics, sports
When applying to University in the UK you have no choice but to use the UCAS system (unless you only apply to Oxford and Cambridge). They charge you £15 for the privilege of using an over-complicated website which requires you to use separate login details to apply and then track the progress of your application.
Not only that but in the past 3 days they have sent me three separate letters containing nothing but an advert (for Lloyds TSB, some student housing company and for the Teacher Development Agency) and three letters explaining that they send us this junk to keep the cost down. This far from the only junk mail they have sent me though, I have had adverts for O2, numerous for yougofurther, BBC Radio 1’s “surgery” program and some shop called One4Uni.
Why are they using our future as a business? Because they can. Because £15 x 550,000 applicants (£8.25M a year) is not enough.
Built several large scalextric tracks with Jon and Simon this afternoon after playing basketball and aerobee in the park.
To make Jon happy, here is a bad video:
Tags: cassiobury park, jon finerty, scalextric, simon
A year an a month after I bought GameMaker.tv I have passed the domain onto Robin Monks for use with the audcast his GMKing organisation produces.
The $40/year godaddy renewal fee is something I will be glad to get rid of - especially as I was planning to let it expire after 1 year - forgetting I had set it to autorenew.
Tags: domain, gamemaker.tv, godaddy, robin monks
GameMakerBlog appears to be a big looser in Google’s latest PageRank update going from PR2 on July 9th to 0 today. Whilst I am not concerned that my search rankings may slip, they vary week to week anyway, I am annoyed as this could have a big impact in reducing the number of sites willing to advertise on GMB. PageRank is seen as a measure of how noteworthy a page is, so I wouldn’t be too surprised to see income in August at around half that of July.
The pageranks of all the other sites I listed on 9th July have remained the same.
Tags: gamemakerblog.com, google, pagerank
Not for the first time Watford FC has fallen out with the Watford Observer.
Tags: watford fc, watford observer
Found this page about a Microsoft prank backfiring after the release of IE 4.
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