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A radio dramatisation of The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins. Excellent. Yesterday evening I was watching [and listening] to Yusuf Islam; that's Cat Stevens to oldies. Having taken up the guitar and writing songs again, the bloke hasn't lost it. It was a delight to watch him play some of his older stuff too. This sort of thing:

You might be able to in a few years. Have a few bob spare though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Galactic He's a bit of a lad, that Branson chappy.

Kepler's laws of planetary motion, I believe. Bit of a hero for me, was ol' Johannes, when I first read his laws in school. Of course, my school wouldn't have taught us of the history of them, as that would have made the subject interesting. So that was a bit of side reading by me. Just like Marvin, he had a brain the size of a planet. Which is rather appropriate. Billion years into the future, so they say. I'd be more worried about the Sun by then. If I'd be worried at all. Anybody noticed it's fizzing out..?

In this day of almost instant and widespread communication, I'm slightly surprised someone hasn't yet proposed the idea of total government for the people and by the people - i.e. everyone has the opportunity to vote on every [major] issue, via the net. This could then eventually bring to an end the age old inefficient representative [MP] at Parliament. We'd just need the civil servants to shuffle the paperwork.

BBC Website covering the news too. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/8091242.stm

Ah... the youth of today. Instant gratification is all they want.

Yes it does. The Itchen is tidal up to Woodmill.

Oh I know that Red Bull have a Renault engine and Toro Rosso have a Ferrari unit, but really..! Anyway, as mentioned earlier, Toro Rosso are up for sale.

Tbh, I find all this rather amusing. Who are they trying to kid..? and

Pancake, install the new RAM, save the important data, her Favourites, .PSTs, etc... and format the drive. Then reinstall the OS and programs. A very close inspection of the software would probably reveal something is cluttering up the system, but it could take you minutes or hours, or you may never find it. If you're keen, inspect away. If not...

Just in case nobody has mentioned it, I believe Scuderia Toro Rosso have to be sold to an independant owner for 2010, under the current Concorde agreement.

I know mate, it's almost unfathomable how people can consider the life of fellow human beings so cheap. I've just been reading on about the pregnant woman who was stabbed and killed on a Grimsby street for apparently no reason at all. Her unborn baby also died. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/8088886.stm EDIT: To answer your question - the truth is, there is no such thing as a motivationless act of violence. There is a catalyst somewhere, however remote. People are not born evil. They learn to be that way.

Well I think you're funny. Does that count..?

Funny quip from the Renault Team Radio today [not exact words]: Renault engineer: If you can't get by Kubica, can you come out of his slipstream, as we need to keep the engine temperature down..? Alonso: No I cannot do that..! Jonathan Ledgard quickly added: So there..!

Aw... I'm sorry mate. And Vettel didn't win either. What is it with this Red Bull anyway..?

That was from the actual show when Adrian Chiles was presenting. Sorry Arizona.

The BBC team picked it up from Ross Brawn recently. And as he would surely know what being Schumacheresque would mean, [whether it means predictable and boring or not] I think they took it as high praise. As did I.

I'd got very bored with Angus Deayton, by the time he'd got himself sacked. I find the different hosts a refreshing change, although there are some who make welcome returns. Of course, we'll never see Boris again [well not for a few years]. Brian Blessed was side splittingly funny, but we couldn't expect that every week. True, the last presenter was a disappointment.

World Shut Your Mouth - the above poster.

Excellent win by Brawn. I think we can finally lay to rest any remaining opinion which suggests that Jenson Button and crap driver appear in the same sentence. Given that they are all pretty damn good, he with the fastest car... Apaprently Jenson is now Shumacheresque. High praise indeed, and probably deservedly so too.

OK, I'll give you that one.

I don't think we have any grounds for taking any tiny amount of p!ss.

I think therein lies the answer. The right manager is going to find the best, and best combination, in all the players, not just McGoldrick. It's quite obvious that rival clubs have seen a lot of promise and skill in him, and maybe it's time we [saints fans] valued him too. Perhaps £1M is about right, but it means that Saints would be one pretty good player down, and having to find a replacement.

You wait until someone else downloads a file with a zipped extension they just can't fathom. Perhaps it'll be WinAce's turn..? No doubt it'll be a job for Pancake. What A Guy..!

Like Ponty, I don't think sweeping generalisations are the answer. But perhaps British cars were ultimately crap, as the British volume car industry is long gone.