Walked up Reigate hill yesterday in 30 degree heat- dsappointed to discover that it was just as hot at the top- but on balance the views were worth it.

Would also recomment Batman Begins, although it is possible I am biased due to air conditioned cinema.

For the first time since I have known what a football was, my chosen club is no longer in the top flight of the English game. A year later than I thought it would happen, and six or seven one-above-the-drop-zone finishes that I can remember, but it finally happened. And well deserved too- too many old, slow and crap players. If we can keep the good ( Read more... )

Following on from their obvious recent error (a vote for the Lib Dems is not a vote for the Conservatives by the back door. TWO votes, maybe)- New Labour have come up with the statistic that "If one in 10 Labour voters don't vote, the Tories win". Unveiled by Tony and Gordon fresh today ( Read more... )

So. Revenge of the Sith is nearly upon us (it should have been released on May the Forth - but there you go ( Read more... )

...I realise that the model used is based on uniform national swing and therefore drawers at coping with large swings. (Effectively, swing is defined as proportion of overall population movement not specific population movement- a slightly more realistic model would be to assume a particular proportion (to be calculated to fit the overall result) ( Read more... )

http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/

is a fantastically fun site for the geeks amongst us- the highlight is their marvellous electoral map made out of (conurbations aside) equal- size tetris blocks. At first sight, it looks like the map stops abruptly somewhere around Perth: this is, of course, largely due to Scotland being full of miles and miles ( Read more... )

Fantastically impressed by the following piece in the Guardian- One day, maybe we will all be this bitter and disillusioned ( Read more... )

Discovered this weekend that, if you buy a car from the Inland Revenue (yes, them of the famed customer service abilities), What you is buying is Crown property, sunshine. Ergo, not previously taxed ( Read more... )

Hmm. New year, new glasses, new gym membership and new car (pictures available of all the above on request): suspicions of the onset of professionalism here, which is extremely worrying. It's a slippery downhill slope.

A puzzle, one more next week if I remember... what (and why) comes next-

2,1,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,1,3,2,3,4,3,?

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I've been busy at work recently, but this had to be shared...