Month: August 2004
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What I did on my holidays
This is the holiday blog, so everything gets thrown into it, not to be published until I return, as a visit to the splendid Millennium library in Norwich found their Peoples Network PCs painfully slow (why should public libraries be poor relations when it comes to bandwidth?). Also clogged up with au pairs e-mailing home…
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Holidays
I’m going to be in rural Norfolk and I think far from any sort of network connection unless some entrepreneurial soul has started a web cafe in Burnham Market, aka Fulham-sur-mer, or I can get anywhere near one of the People’s Network PCs in the splendid new Norwich library (last summer they were clogged up…
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University Challenge: British Library trounce PR
A triumph of light over darkness on University Challenge: the Professionals where the British Library team beat a team of PR people 210-70. BL were very impressive, though a little shaky on neuroanatomy. On to the final.
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Racing tips
Andy Richardson has been kind enough to comment on the success of Byron at 16/1 on the first day of Goodwood, and mention it on the DLNet blog; afraid the Racing Post tipster competition project collapsed under pressure of deadlines (not least beause they insist on you ringing your nap through to a premium rate…