Make-your-own World Cup draw

Well we finally know which teams will be going to the World Cup.  The less said about France’s progress the better though (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/8367418.stm).   All I will say is “What ever happened to sportsmen showing sportsmanship?”  What I’m saying is, no Thierry, it’s not the referee’s responsibility to be omniscient and to call a hand [...]

The Book of Jobs III

My last note on jobs ended with a sense of foreboding, but it certainly didn’t start out that way.   I sent my CV to a recruitment agency that I found in the advertised in the post, they seemed to like me and I got a call the next week informing me that I had an interview [...]

Knocked-out by Boxing

I always used to find Boxing terrible to watch; I couldn’t help but find myself rooting for neither boxer to get seriously hurt.  And yet there is something deeply engrossing about it at the same time.  In most sports that I can think of (bar athletics, which are more a comparison of singular basic attributes such as strength [...]

The Book of Jobs Part II

Yay! Another trip down memory lane in another useless blog series?  Why on earth do I put you and myself through it?  Because, well, if I suffer amnesia then it will all be online ready for me.  Unless, of course, we run out of electricity due to a lack of renewable energy sources and have [...]