On Tuesday an old gent called Alec Holden had his hundredth birthday and won Â?25,000 bet at 1/250 odds placed 10 years ago that he would not die. Mr Holden seems quite a wag, he said that spent the last few months avoiding hoodies lest they were William Hill thugs hoping to scupper his bet. [...]
Give your name a Brazilian style makeover for the back of a football shirt.
Although my birthday had been a week and a half before, Friday was the day for the birthday knees-up at the Dover Castle. The pub is about ten minutes north of Oxford Circus on Weymouth Mews , because you could stand outside if it was too crowded within and was bound to be less rammed [...]
I was reading this article on Google’s ascendancy to the position of ‘mega-corp’ in the Economist and found that they do this thing called Google Docs and Spreadsheets – an online word-processing and spreadsheet programme (something like Excel and Word, except the software is on the internet rather than your computer). They are canny buggers.
