England for the semi-finals.
June 30, 2006
2 - 0 
I found these lovely players while not surfing the Official Fifa World Cup Site. Argentina just happen to be my sweepstake team to win if England fail to make it.
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Have an excellent weekend!
Come on Henman, show us how it’s done!
June 28, 2006
So just as one international competition takes a break from all the action, another one serves up some great entertainment. The weather looks good for Wimbledon and hopefully it can take the pressure off our boys in Germany. Tim Henman will face Roger Federer in his next round. There hasn’t been much news about Henman lately, I bet he is glad the England football team are getting the third degree in the news papers, but honestly what can we expect from him this year? Personally my money is on Mario Ancic from Crotia. Something about him tells me he is going to go far in this tournament.
In the ladies competition I will be following Martina Hingis. She retired from tennis 5 years ago, I think because of injury, but has come out of retirement to show the world that she still has what it takes to be a Wimbledon Champion. She was awesome in her day and was looking like her old self in the match against Olga Savchuk. She thrashed her 6-2, 6-2. Did I mention she is still looking awesome? 
I was doing some database housekeeping on my web sites last night and found the following Mysql Search & Replace to be very useful.
UPDATE table_name SET table_field = REPLACE(table_field, ‘replace_what’,'with_this’);
Update: English Babes at the world cup.
June 26, 2006
Now this is what I was talking about
In loving memory.
June 23, 2006
June 23rd 1999.
Where are all the English World Cup Babes?
June 23, 2006
So until then, these will have to do.
Don’t forget it’s the Canadian F1 GP this weekend where Alonso will probably win and Michael Schumacher will probably come 2nd… Ha Ha!!!
Isn’t the Internet a marvellous place?
June 17, 2006
I’ve been searching online for an Ultra Compact Digital Camera ever since I got my Canon Powershot S2 IS camera, only because it is not a "pocket camera", and it’s a bit too big to lug around every day. It great for everything else especially when you use the 12 times optical zoom. So, for the past couple of months I have been doing my usual research, which entails reading through all the digital camera sites, reading reviews, forums, asking questions, pondering over every pro and con etc. Finally I decided on the Casio Exilim EX Z-850.
Some of the features I like so far:
- Large 2.5" screen - as well as a small optical view finder for when you don’t want to use the screen. The screen is very bright, and there are 5 settings to turn it up or down. In direct sunlight you are still able to see the screen.
- Manual Controls - It’s not just a point and shoot. There is a dial setting for Aperture and Shutter priority. It also has a manual focus mode, which works very well; the central section of the preview is enlarged when you adjust the focus.
- Best Shot mode - There are no less than 34 (plus one custom ‘user’ mode), covering everything from the usual portraits, landscapes and night scenes to pets, ’splashing water’ and food to special effects and modes for copying documents and text that remove perspective distortion. In each case a brief description is shown on-screen to explain how and when to use it.
- It’s flat out between shots - Focus speed, shutter lag, shot-to-shot times and so on are excellent, and overall the camera feels very responsive indeed to use.
- Excellent battery life - I’ve taken roughly 425 photographs so far and have not needed to charge the battery.
So overall I am very happy with the camera. Even the video is fine. I really don’t know what people are complaining about on so many of the forums. I’ve shot about 25 minutes worth of video and it’s bright, clear and smooth. Video can be set to 640×480 or smaller.The video for me was never going to be an issue, because the video option on the Canon S2 IS is out of this world. Even better than some DV camera’s.
I also purchased a spare battery and charger from ibuynow.co.uk - 10/10 for speed & efficiency - I purchased the items on Thursday night, and it arrived this morning at 8am.
And finally the flash memory. I purchased a 1GB SD card from Picstop.co.uk on Monday morning, (at the same time as I ordered the camera). The memory card arrived the following day (Tuesday). Their service is by far the best. For flash memory you cannot go wrong with this site. I highly recommend them.
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