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Charity ‘Drag Race’ report

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

A couple of weeks back, I promised to do something daft on this blog, and now I have. The Bristol charity drag race took place on a mind-numbingly cold and rainy English Summer’s day last Sunday, and I got thoroughly soaked! Which is all part of the fun, of course. A few pictures of the event follow, for posterity…

Drag Racing

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

Nope, not the fast car variety, this one’s straight out of Monty Python.
The Bristol Drag Race is a fund-raising activity organised by Bristol Cancer Help Centre, in which grown men and women who ought to know better race across an inflatable 300 metre obstacle course dressed in drag. My wife and daughter found a flyer […]

Google Bomb

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

During a bout of shameless time-wasting the other day, some friends and I decided to pick upon that lowly form of internet life, the automatic phrase generator. E-Bay has a running ad on the Google search page ’sponsored link’ sidebar, that seems to parrot back any phrase or saying typed in as a search. We […]

Ajax Seminar : Part 7

Monday, March 13th, 2006

Final leg of the Seminar now. I missed most of the Tibco/GI talk, while my laptop was being fitted out for the presentation.
My talk was overshadowed by the Internet Explorer pretzel that I discovered this morning, which received a good round of applause. I have taken photos of it, and will post them to this […]

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