Jul

30

2007 Tour De France Winner Stripped of Title

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I have belatedly come across the following important news from early April which demonstrates that the UCI, ASO and WADA have been taking the issue of doping in cycling seriously all along. Fat Cyclist » Blog Archive » 2007 Tour De France Winner Stripped of Title 2007 Tour De France Winner Stripped of Title “Really, [...]

Jul

24

Bloody annoyed

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Alexandre Vinokourov has tested positive for blood doping. Astana have withdrawn from the Tour de France. Maybe now’s the time for the UCI to get really serious about drugs in cycling. The current leader of the Tour, Denmark’s Michael Rasmussen, has been suspended from his national cycling team for having made the ‘administrative error’ of [...]

Jul

16

Credit where credit’s due

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I discovered today, on the arrival of my credit card statement, that MBNA had failed to set up the direct debit that I had arranged with them several weeks ago. This left me with a late payment charge to pay on the account and also ended my 6-month interest-free period. It was the latter that [...]

Jul

4

Numeracy challenge

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Write down as many numbers as you can which get smaller when you times them by 2 and get smaller when you square them. Surely some mistake?

Jul

4

Victory at last

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One of the perils of teaching is having to endure the odd day of INSET (a fine example of trying to force an acronym when it’s not needed: ‘training day’ would be so much more self-explanatory) where members of staff demonstrate some of their weaknesses as teachers in front of the entire teaching body of [...]

Jul

2

New high score

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Steve may not be doing quite so well as me at Excite Truck but I’m guessing his high score on Galaga is somewhat greater than my 55510. He did, after all, spend much of the 1980s playing its BBC Micro equivalent. In other news, I had a premature attempt at an online game of Mario [...]