There is a time to be criticised

So I had my first criticism in a little while. I decided to have a look at Technorati and whilst I am now up to 217,000th or something like that (this is progress believe me, I started at 1m) and I had four new links to check out. One of these, at Critical Christian made [...]

Karl as a blogger

Apparently my pastor needs a blog - I’d love it if he did. This fits into bigger issues over how we use the access to technology we have in general.

How much are you worth?

ChaCha Search, a tech startup, has introduced a radical way of paying employees. I love this - it allows you not to have to wait for your pay, to work when you want, to see immediate pay back for your efforts and to guage exactly what the company sees your value as. It allows for [...]

Global warmth for California

I love California. Having been there 5 times in my life, it’s just got a buzz about it that other places don’t have. Silicon Valley, a great natural beauty, chilled out people, great coastline, the madness of SF, all are lots of reasons to love this place. This week it took a step to finally [...]

Penalty time is up says Blatter

The Guardian had a story today that Sepp Blatter, head of FIFA, is to scrap penalty shoutouts to settle ties. He plans to have this in place by the 2010 world cup. I seriously can’t see this happening. The best solution to penalties I ever heard is that each side loses a player from their [...]

Hearts versus Sparta Pague

Tomorrow night, the mighty Heart of Midlothian take on Sparta Prague, in the 2nd leg of the 1st round of the UEFA Cup. If we win on aggregate then we go into the lucrative group stages. If we don’t, our European campaign comes to an end before October. This would be a real disappointment after [...]

Science in sports

If you read Moneyball and wondered about the truth in it, then look at the latest results from out west.

Going on holiday

I’m off on a week’s holiday on 7th October. Where should I go? Have been looking at Phoenix AZ, Orkney Islands, Elie Scotland, Brazil, Cyprus, Iceland, Las Vegas……any ideas welcome

Social networks

I was reading through the Financial Times tonight (yes, I still read the print media despite RSS’ing my news) and I came across the story that a couple of guys from QXL were leaving to go to some social networking startups (one was a mobile startup - perhaps one of the few users of the [...]

Have a drink on me

Today I saw sign in a shop that said “Beer is a sign that God loves us and cares for us.” It was clearly meant in one way but I guess there’s some truth in it lol.