Archive for July, 2010

The Wimbledon Climax

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There’s something thoroughly entertaining about Nadal.

He plays with intensity and with fire; a steely determination to never give up, never allow a single point to slip away. He literally plays every point as if he were against match point. And yet, he has such [...]

England: The Team That Wasn’t.

In The Sunday Times today, there is an interesting piece on England the football team.

It is about what went wrong, about why they failed so woefully at the World Cup.

John Carlin interviewed Spanish midfield wizard Xabi Alonso, who said, very eloquently, that the 11 best does not make the best 11.

In other words, we can [...]

Forgotten phones

It’s fully possible to recycle them. And yet, either people forget that, or they don’t properly realise that you can do.

Mine can’t be the only house with old phones laying forgotten and discarded in shadowy corners of the house?

I’ve seen many offers over the years trying to entice me to sell my own mobile for [...]

Finding jobs today

With my post-graduate course drawing to a close, I’m having to look around at jobs that I can apply for when it finishes. And now, I suppose. Better to get the applications in as early as possible.

When I first came out of university, there was barely a job to go around. In [...]