The Anonymous Widower

Team GB Chooses Fire

Team GB has announced two captains for the Olympics; Ryan Giggs and Dai Greene.

Both are Welsh and hopefully they’ll be able to put some fire into the teams. Admittedly, the football team has a strong Welsh presence with five members, including two of the three overage members of the team.

The only problem, I can see is it makes it even more urgent to find somewhere to park the dragon.

July 9, 2012 Posted by | Sport | , , , | Leave a comment

And Then There Were Five!

I passed New Bus for London, LT8, on the way back from the Angel this afternoon. So that means at least five; LT1, LT2, LT4, LT6 and LT8.

July 9, 2012 Posted by | News, Transport/Travel | , , | 1 Comment

Mickey Arthur Shocked By Aussie Performances

And he’s the coach, so surely he’s shocked at himself as well. The story is here on the BBC web site.

July 9, 2012 Posted by | Sport | , | Leave a comment

Branson Goes Short Haul

It would appear that Virgin Atlantic want to set up a short haul airline from Heathrow, according to reports like this.

Now with a lack of runway capacity at the airport, surely we don’t want short-haul flights, but long-haul ones!

Especially, as the Channel Tunnel and its trains are not running at full capacity.

But then if an airline wanted to run trains from London to Paris, the French would probably find a way to block it.

July 9, 2012 Posted by | Transport/Travel | , , , | Leave a comment

A Message From Syria

I just received this message.

Greetings,

 

I will like to formally introduce myself, I am Mrs. Asma al-Assad, First Lady of Syria which is the wife of Syria President Bashar al Assad.

 

I have a Profitable business transaction for you which involves transfer of funds,Please if interested do contact me via email for more details on this transaction but if this does not suit your business ethics, kindly delete this e-mail as I will gladly appreciate.

 

I await your swift response, to my email.

 

Regards

Mrs. Asma al-Assad

It is the sort of message for which the delete button was invented.

I checked the message source and it came from Indonesia.

July 9, 2012 Posted by | Computing, World | , , , , | 2 Comments

And Now For The Olympic Tennis

Out of curiosity, I looked up the Swiss performance in the 2008 Olympics.  I found this informing report on the Swiss in the 2008 and 2004 games, where they got 6 and 5 medals respectively. The report is both ambitious and optimistic and I suspect that Roger Federer is looking to improve on the doubles gold he got in Beijing. After all, he will be carrying the Swiss flag in the opening ceremony, but he hasn’t won an Olympic gold in the singles.

So Federer must start favourite on his favourite surface. He will also be carrying a lot of the weight of the Swiss nation, to get a medal.

So who will meet him in the final?

July 9, 2012 Posted by | Sport | , , | Leave a comment