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new year | happy new | 2009 | gaza | new year's Happy New Year
Geeky-Gadgets

Happy New Year to all our readers and friends, I hope you all have a great 2009, and thanks to all our readers and friends for all their support in 2008. See you all tomorrow with lots more gadgets and cool geek gear. This is a post from Geeky Gad...

new years | years eve | electronics show | show bucks | bucks global Sleeping patterns: At pro...
doctorvee

Series: Sleep graphs 2008TOCSorting out my sleeping patternsSleeping patterns: progress updateSleeping patterns: update after nine monthsSleeping patterns: At project completion My new year’s resolution for 2008 was to get my sleeping pattern ...

january 2009 | 3rd january | saturday 3rd | saturday 03 | 03 january Dates for Your Diary
Bloggers 4 UKIP

UKIP Public Meeting on Saturday 31st of January 2009 The Peterborough & NW Cambs Branches will be hosting a Public Meeting with guest speaker Nigel Farage MEP party leader on SATURDAY 31ST OF JANUARY 2009 starting at 10am at the "Manor Farm ...

brother | lucy pinder | celebrity | verne troyer | jonsson Tommy Sheridan: an uphill...
Mr Eugenides

Grim news from the world of entertainment: Tommy Sheridan is struggling in the Celebrity Big Brother house.Bookies have revealed Tommy Sheridan is proving "as popular as the plague" with Big Brother punters. Sheridan and singer Mutya Buena are provi...

john travolta's | actor john | bahamas | jett travolta | son dies John Travolta’s Son Jett ...
Anorak News

JETT Travolta, the 16-year-old son of American actor John Travolta has died in the Bahamas. The actor’s lawyer, Michael Ossi, says Jett Travolta, who was 16, suffered a seizure, and attempts to revive him at the scene failed. Jett. Imagine the...

weblog awards | 2008 weblog | blog | 13th january | birmingham The 2008 Weblog Awards
Neil Clark

This blog has made the shortlist for the ‘Best UK’ Blog at the 2008 Weblog Awards, the largest of all the blogging awards, in terms of votes cast. Last year , thanks to your support, we won the award at a canter, polling almost twice as many votes a...

morris dancing | morris ring | too embarrassed | within 20 | take part Morris dancing facing ext...
Nothing To Do With Arbroa...

Morris dancing could be "extinct" within 20 years because young people are too embarrassed to take part, a UK Morris association has said. The numbers of people participating in the traditional British folk dance are dwindling whilst the age of the ...

steve jobs | macworld keynote | jobs explains | health | rumors A letter from Steve Jobs
The Devil's Kitchen

With Apple announcing that this year's MacWorld will be the last that they attend (for the present) and the news that Phil Schiller will be delivering the keynote speech, speculation about Steve Jobs' health has been rampant.Via John Gruber's Daring...

night garden | gaza diary | pilots feel | israel pilots | happy killing links for 2009-01-05
Shut Up, Sit Down

Feminist Voices on Gaza (tags: feminism lists war politics news) Gaza diary: Do Israel pilots feel happy killing innocent women and children? | World news | guardian.co.uk Om Mohammed says: "They [Israeli forces] attack everywhere. They hav...

webcabinet | web cabinet | shadow cabinet | cabinet meeting | labour Will Labours shadow cabin...
A PR Guy's Musings - Stua...

Not sure what I think of this. I like the idea, just not to sure about the implementation. The only bit that really made me laugh was “William Hague (available for speeches, weddings and hen nights) has logged on. hi sorry am late. had a prior engag...

iphone dev | 3g | dev team | iphones latest | called yellowsn0w iPhone Dev releases iPhon...
GadgetLite - Latest gadge...

The iPhone Dev Team have now released their latest unlock tool for the iPhone 3G, though a tiny bit later than what they promised! The tool as you will know called yellowsn0w, will work with the iPhone’s latest OS update, firmware version 2.2...

ideacentre a600 | lenovo ideacentre | 4gb ddr3 | 1tb hdd | x 1080 Lenovo IdeaCentre A600
Geeky-Gadgets

Lenovo has released details of their new all in one desktop PC, the Lenovo IdeaCentre A600, and from the photos it looks stunning. The Lenovo IdeaCentre A600 features a 21.5 inch widescreen HD display, with a resolution of 1920 x 1080, processing c...

liberal england | britblog roundup | blog postings | roundup 203 | 0 world Someone’s attacked you on...
Liberal Democrat Voice

The US Air Force may not seem the obvious place to go for advice on this, but they do seem to take online communication seriously and are an organisation whose activities, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan, are frequently talked about online. Bei...

police across | britain routinely | quietly adopted | computers without | hacking Police set to step up hac...
Nothing To Do With Arbroa...

The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant. The move, which follows a decision by the European Union’s council of ministers in Brussels, has ange...

netbook | msi x | ssd | intel atom | hdd HP unveils Mini 2140 Netb...
gadgettastic.com

HP has updated its Mini 2133 netbook with the new HP Mini 2140. The HP Mini 2140 is designed for business users, and it features a 10 inch LED backlit widescreen LCD with a resolution of 1366 x 768, there is also the option for a standard display w...

met office | global warming | 10c | severe weather | temperatures We are supposed to take t...
EU Referendum

Next year in the UK is set to be one of the top-five warmest on record, according to the Met Office.The average global temperature for 2009 is expected to be more than 0.4 degrees celsius above the long-term average, making it the warmest year since...

gaza following | david miliband | israeli invasion | israel | ceasefire Divided Europe ... again
Bloggers 4 UKIP

When the world faced a global economic meltdown, several EU member states didn't give the EU a second thought before announcing their own unilateral "solutions" to their problems. Now the world is facing a humanitarian disaster in Gaza following th...

right wing | wing extremists | simon heffer | wing extremist | google ad London’s Met Police runni...
IanVisits

It seems that the Metropolitan Police has turned to Google to place adverts on the internet calling for people to report suspected Right Wing Extremists - and the advert is directing people to the Met Police’s anti-terrorism web pages. For ...

golfers | titanium clubs | golfer | sonic boom | playing golf New golf clubs could dama...
Odd News | newslite.tv

Doctors have warned golfers that while new titanium clubs can add yards to your drive, they could also damage your hearing.Boffins say golfers using a new generation of titanium drivers - which help players hit the ball further - should wear ear plu...

review 2008 | sly emotional | jane another | governments sly | set review Review of 2008 - Part 2
Andrew Allison - A Conser...

One of the surprises this year was the resignation of David Davis. We know he is passionate on the subject of our liberty and freedom, however, no-one expected him to resign his seat and fight a by-election on this issue. There were many at the time...

new year's | soldier killed | soldier planned | province brings | casualty 2009 A New Year's Resolution
The Devil's Kitchen

Even when most on his uppers, your humble Devil has been wont to donate money to favoured charities—those he has carefully selected as doing good works and receiving no government money.However, I am fed to the back teeth with "charities" that...

jan 2009 | former ministers | mps warns | insider knowledge | 5th jan Victoria Line upgrade on ...
A blog for Finsbury Park

[from Railway Gazette] Victoria Line upgrade on schedule 05 Jan 2009 | Nick Kingsley UK: The ambitious project to renew one of London’s busiest Underground lines is nearing the halfway stage. Despite the high-profile collapse of PPP infraco Metrone...

channel m | manchester evening | evening news | surround siege | greater manchester Live debate with David Ca...
newsjiffy

The Manchester Evening News is inviting applications from those who would like to question Leader of the Opposition David Cameron on the economy.To take part in the debate, email debatesATmen-news.co.uk* with your name, address, job, contact details...

12 months | next 12 | rebirth electro | spinning reunions | months music Westminster Tories spend ...
Labour Matters » Labour P...

Shirley Porter’s “Homes for Votes” scandal returns to haunt Westminster Conservatives Westminster Conservatives have spent over £14 million buying back nearly 60 former Council flats sold by the Council in the 1980’s, includ...

white working | hazel blears | ignored | communities | class people What about the non-white ...
New Direction

Hazel Blears is on risky footing with this one, badly confusing political reality with decent political aspiration.Before I start on this, I'd like to ask why the media feels it acceptable to talk about 'the white working class' without taking any t...

dual sim | lg ks660 | sim mobile | raised position | macheads review The Coolest Gadgets we mi...
Geeky-Gadgets

As usual there has been lots of cool and interesting gadgets featured on geeky gadgets over the past week. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to feature them all, so here is a round up of some of the coolest gadgets and some other cool stuff that we...

kills dozens | police say | accidentally stepped | shot beavers | old retrieved Boy, 4, shoots babysitter...
Nothing To Do With Arbroa...

Police say a 4-year-old boy in southern Ohio shot his babysitter because the sitter accidentally stepped on his foot. Police said 18-year-old Nathan Beavers and several other teenagers were babysitting several young children in a mobile home in Jack...

gaza crisis | sheryl gascoigne | surviving sheryl | gazza's biological | surviving gazza Surviving Sheryl Gascoign...
Iain Dale's Diary

Someone in the world of TV scheduling has a deep sense of irony. On BBC2 you can watch The Gaza Crisis, while on Channel 4 I am watching Surviving Gazza. It's painful viewing. I keep thinking: what kind of mother would allow her three very scarred c...

14th world | van barneveld | raymond van | pdc world | taylor Darts: Phil Taylor beats ...
Latest news, sport, busin...

Phil Taylor has won his 14th world title and pocketed a cheque for £125,000 after a masterful display of darts at Alexandra Palace. He obliterated his opponent and good friend, Raymond van Barneveld, by seven sets to one. In doing so he achieved a ...

top five | weekend notes | five carmakers | extraordinary fourth | moves 3 The top five local Libera...
Liberal Democrat Voice

Based on the amount of traffic they’ve passed on to www.libdems.org.uk in 2008, the top five local Liberal Democrat sites (excluding blogs) were (with changes in brackets from last year’s top five): stevebeasant.mycouncillor.org.uk (NEW) vinc...

 

Cougars v Sheffield via Carlisle Rugby Football Club November 26th, 2008 at 09:05

The lack of regular competitive matches is showing tell-tale signs in the Cougars. Admittedly, circumstances did not favour the visitors, with dubious refereeing, a long bus journey and Siberian-like winds to contend with. The large number of inexperienced players has, of course, a part to play too, but if the last roaring twenty minutes of [...]...

Carlisle 12 pts v Sandal 21 pts via Carlisle Rugby Football Club November 16th, 2008 at 16:53

Saturday, 15th November, 2008 RFU North 2 East League Carlisle did not quite reach the heights of their performances over the previous couple of weeks with victories over Penrith and Pontefract.  Meeting Sandal in the league for the first time, they were more than a match for the opposition in the opening period and were worth their [...]...

Top Points Scorers via Carlisle Rugby Football Club November 12th, 2008 at 14:47

RFU NORTH 2 EAST LEAGUE We might have a slow start to the season but two of our players have made an early start by getting into the upper reaches of the league statistics.  Check out through our link to Rugby Roundup.   Youngster Chris Harris is in at 5th in the list of top try scorers with [...]...

Carlisle Colts 10 v Wigton Colts 21 via Carlisle Rugby Football Club October 28th, 2008 at 09:03

Saturday, 25th October 2008 Friendly  Carlisle had a free league weekend and Wigton’s scheduled league opponents, Consett, having withdrawn from the league, so this was a hastily arranged friendly.  Wigton demonstrated they are a force to be reckoned with this season but Carlisle battled throughout, and for much of the game we were well in contention. The weather [...]...

Old Crossleyans 25 pts v Carlisle 9 pts via Carlisle Rugby Football Club October 26th, 2008 at 20:40

North 2 East League Saturday, 25th October 2008 On only their second ever visit to Broomfield, Carlisle were looking for a repeat of last season when they eclipsed their hosts by one point.  Given the very windy conditions, but with no rain, and a good firm pitch, the Warwick Road side will be very disappointed to come [...]...