Live from Cambridge!

Just a quick note, I'm here at the Judge Institute for Cambridge hanging out after the last football game of the season. Today both sides have given their all in football, tennis, basketball, and cricket. Sad to report Oxford have brought home only the basketball trophy, but we challenged well on alll fronts.

Full report to follow. Right now there is wine to drink and people to talk to ;-)

Arghhh

This is going to really really really spoil football for me. I suppose he could still fail the medical but... Oh, and Freddy Shepherd is the highest paid chairman in football. I swear something is very rotten in the state of newcastle united.

Update

Lots to talk about, but not much time to talk with I'm afraid. Lets see

I've landed a summer business project with a major technology company. I can't say too much about it because we're still negotiating the details of how we're going to work with them and there's a chance it could fall through. More on this as it emerges.

In other news my preparations for the football match against Cambridge business school (Judge) have been thrown into disarray by my managing to badly bruise my right foot, which makes playing football kind of difficult. So I'm facing a fitness test tomorrow and I'm rating myself less than 50/50 for the big match. Still there's a whole festival of sports planned for the day at cambridge so I may manage to play cricket or basketball - anything that doesn't involve kicking things with my feet is still an option.

I really have to get started on the coursework for this term. I'm planning on starting on the ethics case this afternoon, I've got two individual and two group assignments for branding - and I plan to knock out the individual ones soon.

Finally rumours have reached me of an interesting job in warwick. It's hardly ideal locationwise, but the job is interesting and it's near an airport, which is important when your better half will be living in Holland. This is good news, because all the work is seriously impeding my ability to jobhunt.

Life after wartime

Salaam Pax has been out on the road with Raed, touring the south of Iraq and compiling lists of civilian casualties. That's grim enough, but its the emerging fanaticsm he records that scares me. Looters in Basra destroyed off licenses and attacked the owners. Clerics are preaching that those who sell alcohol or show films of 'loose women' (according to Salaam that would include Britney Spears videos) will be given a week to desist or face the consequences.

If the Americans want to avoid radical islamists taking over parts of the country (if not the whole country) they're going to have to stay longer than they expected I think. You can read his report with accompanying photographs at electronic iraq

Term gets serious

The stress is getting to us. Our usual diet of debate, serious discussions of economic policy, views on the efficiency of the market and critiques of the Black Scholes model have been replaced with a viscious email argument as to whether or not Noo Noo the hoover can be considered an honorary tellytubby.

I'm telling you, there's only four of the buggers. Tinky Winky, La La, Dipsy and Po. Don't believe me, look at this from their website.

No No No NO NO NO NO NO

This is terrible news. The signing of Woodgate was bad enough. Adding Bowyer, a man who's past is not so much dodgy as an integral part of footballs heart of darkness is horrible. Never mind that he's been a disaster at West Ham as well. Agressive, unpleasant and probably racist. I don't want Newcastle to become like Leeds were in their 'glory days', a team full of spite and visciousness masquerading as professionalism and fighting spirit.

Lets hope it falls through.

Words of sanity on this from Biffa and Nial.