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Archive for July 2006

Germany v Italy 44:29

Tuesday 4 July 2006

Ok, who designed the Italian team's shirts? Those black bands along armpits and sides, were they meant to cleverly disguise sweat stains? It's a no-no for me, sorry.

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Germany v Italy 29:31

Tuesday 4 July 2006

It must be psychologically harrowing to play such an important game and hear the crowd boo every time you are in control of the game, and cheer whenever you lose it. Which I suppose explains the fact that very often the host country national team reaches at least the semifinal stage.

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Germany v Italy 24:59

Tuesday 4 July 2006

Oh, poo - I finished my pizza. Bored now.
Oh, hello - dessert! (Weight Watchers Chocolate Toffee frozen thing)

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Germany v Italy 19:23

Tuesday 4 July 2006

I connected to an Italian radio station online to get the Italian audio but 1. it's widely out of sync with the action on ITV digital, and 2. instead of calling the players by name, they say stuff like "the defender from the Florence team". That could be anyone, as far as I'm concerned. Even [...]

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Germany v Italy 11:48

Tuesday 4 July 2006

Nothing much has happened so far. The pizza is nice though. Wild mushrooms and mascarpone.

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Germany v Italy 04:19

Tuesday 4 July 2006

Totti has definitely improved with age. Last time I saw him he wasn't much to look at. Not a fan of long hair, me.

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Germany v Italy -0:05

Tuesday 4 July 2006

What? Ads? Damn, it's on ITV.

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Germany v Italy -0:07

Tuesday 4 July 2006

Where's Berlusconi? Oh yes, they got rid of him - ha!

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Bitful football

Tuesday 4 July 2006

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Try and say that ten times very quickly without twisting your tongue. No easy americanisms allowed: it's football, not soccer. Not easy, eh? Near impossible, you say? Well, that's exactly the reason why there has [...]

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links for 2006-07-04

Tuesday 4 July 2006

Windows 98 and ME will stop being patched after 11 July 2006
If you can't upgrade to XP, you should at least 1. stop using Internet Explorer (Opera and Firefox support Windows 98 and ME users), 2. get a firewall, and 3. run a regularly updated antivirus.
(tags: patches virus os windows firefox opera antivirus firewall)

bubblewrap.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash [...]

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Today the world is a little less my Oyster

Tuesday 4 July 2006

Last night I have just found out that my email to Oyster (Transport For London smart travel card) requesting copies of receipts/invoices for the past two months (for tax offset reasons) went straight to their digital bins.
Apparently, you may be logged on as a customer, and click on their message sending tab, but that [...]

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links for 2006-07-03

Monday 3 July 2006

Geek Forum: Encarta Conversagent
Add encarta@conversagent.com to your MSN contacts and chat with it. Examples here. A bot that asks you to apologise if you insult it!
(tags: encarta bot encyclopaedia reference)

Grow Coriander at Home — Lifestyle — IndoIndians.com
I am tired to buy a bunch a coriander a week for a little under a pound, only [...]

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