Archive for February, 2006

Sci-Fi Doctor Who Mini site.

The SCI-FI Channel has launched its new Doctor Who mini-site featuring a brief “about” section with basic facts about the series. These include a “characters” section with biographies of the Doctor, Rose, Captain Jack, Mickey and Jackie (and the actors who play them) as well as the TARDIS, an episode guide to the first series, [...]

Can’t touch this….

MC Hammer has a Blog, check it out @ http://mchammer.blogspot.com/

Man Utd ease to Carling Cup glory

Well thank god for that….
Still celebrating the Reds Carling Cup win this morning, not a bad match all round and thankfully United played the way we all expect them to and were focused on the job in hand from the very first minute. Apart from the opening spell of pressure from Wigan in the second [...]

And i thought my maths was bad….

Vodafone in overvaluation warning
Vodafone has warned its assets are overvalued by as much as £28bn and it faces a slowdown in revenue growth. The mobile phone giant said it would take a hit of between £23bn and £28bn - mainly on its German operations after its takeover of Mannesmann in 2000. Increasing competition will [...]

Carling Cup Final 2006

So here it is, well tomorrow anyway….
UNITED last and only chance of silverware in what has, let’s face it been a dissappointing season. Wigan Athletic stand between us and the CARLING CUP (previously known as the Worthless Cup to most fans). With Wigan due to appear in their first ever major final, i fear that [...]

Smith ambulance attack condemned….

Manchester United and Liverpool have issued a joint statement condemning the fans who attacked the ambulance taking Alan Smith to hospital at the weekend. Smith, 25, suffered a broken leg and a dislocated ankle during United’s 1-0 FA Cup defeat at Anfield. The clubs’ statement read: “These people aren’t real fans of football. “The actions [...]

Woe Canada, what went wrong?

Canada followed the USA out of the Olympics yesterday after a 2-0 defeat at the hands of bitter rivals Russia. The Russian’s out shot the Canadian’s by 33-27 and goals from Alexander Ovechkin and Alexei Kovalev condemmed the Canadian’s to a shock early exit.
But what happened to the 2006 Canadian team that appeared so strong [...]

Canada edge out Czech’s

A late fight back from the Czech Republic could not deny TEAM CANADA a vital 3-2 win in Torino yesterday. Three first period goals looked to have put the Canadian’s into a comfortable position in the final group game before Pavel Kubina (33:46) and Petr Cajanek (42:41), gave the Czech’s late hope. Canada are currently [...]

What is wrong with the NHS?

Today i tried to get a dentist for the first time since i moved from Manchester to Lincoln. After enjoying years of lovely Free NHS dentistry i now find that i cannot get a dentist unless i go for an appraisal and sign up for something called DENPLAN. This service apparantley rates your teeth in [...]

Tom Baker says….

Further to my recent post on Tom Baker being the new voice of the BT text service, Ryan showed me this website where someone has used the service to create film quotes, jokes and “Bakaraoke” where Tom sing’s songs. Well worth checking out if you are bored @ work.