Top tip 2

Who'd have thought it: two major top tips in one day?

 

If you insist on walking into a car park on the road rather than on the pavement, make sure you don’t pass under the barrier as it comes back down after a car has just gone in to park.

 

DW

Top tip

Here's a priceless top tip that came to me this morning.

Do NOT drop a wooden shelf on your toe especially when you are wearing
neither shoes nor slippers.

DW

This is grandson Archie ... coming on isn't he? DW

Watch the news today because there is a meeting of African States in Zambia later today. The news is full of the doom, death and despondency that Mugabe is visiting on his country. The communiqué at the end of the summit will probably send Mugabe home happy: there will be no condemnation of any note ... it's a sad reflection on the world of the politician whose words are sounding increasingly hollow and dangerous.

DW

Hans Rosling

This is a simulcast.

 

I have just watched a fascinating video on the ft.com web site: FT Videos ... Specials ... 17th July 2007.

 

Everyone should watch it as it concerns preconceptions, students, teachers, international health, international development, statistics, presentation skills ... really, you need to watch it.

 

You can also find this video by searching for Hans Rosling, a Swedish Professor, in google and doubtless yahoo, ask and any other decent search engine.

 

DW

Burnley again

I went to bed last night thinking that Burnley had been dumped out of the Carling Cup competition. This morning I woke to find that the opposite is the case!

 

I checked the results last night after 10 pm and saw this:

 

Grimsby 1 v Burnley 0 (ET)

...

 

I noticed that it said ET and even though I knew it should have been AET, I missed the point: that report was telling me either that the match was still in progress or the page was not up to date.

 

Burnley equalised in extra time and then won the penalty shoot out.

 

Onwards and upwards lads!

 

DW

I have just been in a stationery shop in Abingdon to have a one page document photocopied: it cost 10 pence and the alternative would have been to drive home, copy it and file it then go back into town to deliver the original. As I was in the shop I suddenly remembered that I need an eraser for my propelling pencil. The assistant asked her boss if they had such erasers for my brand and she got a curt, "You'll have to bring the pencil in, they're all different." The assistant helpfully rummaged though a box and I said, as she proclaimed her own cluelessness, "I'll bring my pencil it but it's the same style as that one." The boss came back in and barked, "That's for a Shaeffer ... " Well, I'm sorry but I won't be going back there as there are alternative stationers. I know the assistant and I were just playing at looking for the erasers but I didn't appreciate his rudeness and aggression. DW

The English Premier league football season started at the weekend and how about this for confusion? On Friday I read a report that clubs had spent £200 million in buying players over the close season. On Saturday, just before the Sunderland (1) v Spurs (0) game, someone said the amount spent on players was £350 million. After the game that amount had become £400 million. Which is the correct amount? Who knows? Fascinatingly, Burnley's season started with a marvellous 2: 1 win over West Bromwich Albion on Saturday. Well done lads! DW