There’s a great line in the Guardian piece ‘100 minutes in the life of Muammar Gaddafi‘:
Gaddafi certainly knows how to woo a crowd, particularly at important junctures such as this. This was after all his big chance to cement Libya’s re-entry into the bosom of the international community after 20 years in the wilderness.
The technique [...]
I love the penultimate paragraph of the Guardian’s report on Man Utd’s total failure at Fulham last weekend:
As for Ronaldo, this was one of those wearisome afternoons when he played with the soul of a pickpocket, trying to get opponents sent off, eyeballing the officials, exaggerating injuries – in short, the whole everyone-is-against-me routine. At [...]
I had fun not revising for an exam on genetic algorithms the other night, instead going through old posts from insolence.co.uk .. it’s a horrible perfumeadvertisingflashsite now, but I was pleased to find my second favourite news article in the world survives – Philippine Troops Threaten to Attack MILF Over Soldier’s Death. Fantastic choice [...]
Eleven hours in the labs and we’re not even in the last fornight :\
I made my Last.fm charts program available for anybody to use and it’s had a positive response, hurrah, though people are far too reluctant to give feedback. It’s good to know there’s others out there who like to investigate every inch [...]
Third year 0_o. I’ve chosen Operating Systems, Computer Design, an Introduction to Vision & Robots, Logic Programming, Agent Based Systems, Security and Language Semantics and Implementation (the best of a bad bunch, no way I’m doing ADS eh), along with a course in professional issues, an individual practical and a group project. We [...]
Days are happy and spent watching Six Feet Under and thinking about going outside to museums of surgeons but we watch the rain fall instead and it’s much better. I have a new flat in a brilliant location but it doesn’t feel like a home, it feels like a student flat and it’ll take [...]
Not posted any of these articles in quite a while, so here’s my favourite of all time. It’s from the Times some time in 2002. The manager’s decision just makes no sense whatsoever!
A worthy world record to hold. Apparently their punishment was quite harsh.