Category: News/Media/Sport

Here in Cambridge’s Queen Edith’s ward, we consider ourselves to be very much part of the city, so it’s strange that the parliamentary boundary of the Cambridge constituency rather oddly puts us outside of the city. Unsurprisingly, folks round …

You rarely see serious forecasts of the European elections on a regional (constituency) basis, mainly because the proportional voting system makes it much harder than “first past the post” systems. But I thought I’d take a look, spurred on by …

Back in 2012, my wife and I were walking down Hills Road, returning from having voted in a local election, when we ran into some neighbours, walking towards the Polling Station. “Off to vote then?”, I asked. They shook …

Oooh, nice. The most expensively-placed grocer’s apostrophe I’ve seen for a long time. A half page advertisement in The Times doesn’t come cheap. And when your ad only has a few words on it, well, proof-reading isn’t that onerous a …

A friend threw a pub quiz-style question at me today: “How many sets of brothers can you name who have both played football in the English First Division (or Premier League)?” It’s a good one, and I have to admit …

Woo-Hoo. Texaco Fantasy Football is back for the Championship 2010/2011 season. Do join! Picking a team takes 5-10 minutes and is free.

You can then also join in individual leagues, and I’ve got two tell you about:

1. ITFC …

Those who can, do. Those who can’t get a cushy job in the TV studio.

Isn’t it odd that Danny Baker’s few minutes on Match of the Day became for some people one of the most abiding memories of the …

For me, this has been the most interesting election campaign for many years – if not ever. The emergence of a third party nationally; having my house “moved” from a Tory stronghold into a constituency which could go any way; …

Yeah, snappy title, huh? This extraordinary document crashed out of my Sunday Times today, and I’d love to know more about it, not least because I can’t see any commercial credits and I therefore have a sneaking suspicion that I’ve …

BBC News website picture of Ipswich fan stuck at airport thanks to the Icelanders making a big bonfire of all the evidence. Or perhaps just burning money, who knows?
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This is one of the oddest things I’ve ever seen on the internet. A company variously calling itself Alphascript Publishing and Betascript Publishing is taking articles from Wikipedia and publishing them as books. It would appear that the act of …

While we all fear for the future of local journalism, Cambridge blogger Richard Taylor has once again shown that nowadays, independent commentators can – and do – provide a better job of covering local politics than the traditional press. His …

I may well blog quite a bit about the forthcoming General Election, because we’re actually in a very interesting constituency here in Cambridge, which could go one of three ways. And as an “undecided” voter at the moment, I need …

1: Ipswich 5 Bolton Wanderers 3 (2000)

Simply the most exciting football match I have ever had the privilege to watch. Funnily enough, both teams were nervous and the quality of football was rather poor, although we conveniently forget that.…

5: David Beckham curls in a free kick, a nation goes mental (2001)

The time, the place …how can any team leave World Cup qualification to the 93rd minute and then do this? Like all of the top five here, …

10: Europe win the Ryder Cup in Oakland Hills (2004)

There was just something about his one. Watched it in a packed bar full of Dads who’d got away from their families for a joyous evening.

9: Usain Bolt saunters

15: Michael Phelps wins eight gold medals in Beijing (2008)

When a sport you’re not usually that interested in totally grabs you for a few hours or days, it can only be because something extraordinary is happening. And good grief, …

I should point out, of course, that these are my twenty most memorable moments in sport from 2000-2009. They won’t be yours. But my goodness, there are some moments here that make those long winter nights in between worth persevering …

The extremely talented Wayne at Adeptise has done a nice splash page for us to promote The Discount Sorcerer, our new online shopping venture. The problem with sites like these is that they go in and out of favour …

Curious news that The Times is about to launch a science magazine called Eureka. But hang on… there’s already a long-established, well-respected technology magazine called Eureka, published by Findlay Media. Whilst the subject matter may not be exactly …

The Cambridge Folk Festival kicked off on Thursday with a terrific performance by Mumford & Sons. Blimey, if the rest of the weekend is this good it’ll be amazing. “Post Folk” at times, according to @fenlandgent

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The story so far: Having just got myself one of those gadgets which shoehorns video signals into a USB port, I’m now going through hundreds of dusty old VHS tapes gradually expiring in the attic. So far, the oldest full-length, …

I feel no comment is necessary.

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This just struck me as a curiosity, spotted in a display of football memorabilia in our village men’s hairdressers. For an FA Cup match in January 1971, Portsmouth were charging 90p for a ticket in the “Main Stand” (oh, …

Well, the expensive potential white elephant which is the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway is running at least six months late (and with additional contractors being called in, that may be optimistic), so this week must have been a great relief …

Well, four or five of us twittered from this afternoon’s riveting nil-nil thriller at Portman Road; the whole project is a little primitive at the moment, but I honestly believe that one day this sort of thing will be …

110% Larch Dithering! Champion!

I’ve always loved anagrams, although my admiration for their possibilities reached its peak many years ago when my flatmate and I realised the best ever anagram of his name was “Bob Ganjashit”. In those days, you …

And so we wheel out the picture of the best album of 2008 for one last time, as I bring you my Compilation of 2008 – a CD of (mostly) sheer joy which I have imposed on some of my …

The more I think about this, the more I think it’s a great idea. Say It is a excellently-designed (technically and aesthetically) site with a really fun product too – what’s not to like? The site allows you to send …

For ages I’ve been sitting on loads of great engineering articles written in the late nineties, and at last I’ve got around to putting them onto the interweb. They were produced by various engineering suppliers for general publication. I know …

The Mini Coyote Speed Camera Detector (which was written about in The Times) is now available from Amazon UK for £199.

Click on the link below to go directly to the correct page at Amazon where you can …