September 2005

Day one: England/Australia on top (delete whichever applicable)

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Ton-up star Andy: you can shut it now Warne
- Headline, The Sun, London, 9.9.05

Warned: Shane turns on his magic
- Headline, The Advertiser, Adelaide, 9.9.05

It's a sign of the times that 319 runs in a day can be considered a disappointing effort from England. Despite a great knock from Andrew Strauss and a pretty darn good one from Andrew Flintoff, I think Australia have their noses in front right now, although this is almost singularly due to the genius of Shane Warne.

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ashes 2005

More proof that Google is taking over the universe

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I'm a big user of Google products, slowly gravitating towards using my gmail account as my primary email address, and still trying to get my teeth around Google Talk. Nonetheless, I find the speed of their growth these days somewhat disquieting. Here's the latest press release from Google. You have to believe if that once Vint Cerf comes on board, Al Gore himself can't be far behind...

CERF'S UP AT GOOGLE

Vint Cerf, a Founding Father of the Internet, Joins Google as Chief Internet Evangelist

Those five days in September

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Has there been a bigger buzz about a five-day Test match than the one starting at The Oval in just under an hour? It's a bit like Grand Final Fever. Some of the British media are comparing this to Wembley 1966. Maybe I could modestly offer a mention of Upton Park 2003...

The cricket will have my undivided attention from about half an hour after the start of play. Two points for now:

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ashes 2005

SBS Ashes Website is that-a-way

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Just a reminder to all those people who stumble upon my website while googling for "SBS Ashes Website" - the SBS Ashes Website is at www20.sbs.com.au/theashes (yes, www20), and about an hour before the start of each day's play, one of their studio commentators (either Dean Jones, Greg Matthews, or anchorperson Simon Hill) will be present in the live forum, and this is the place to leave questions for them.

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ashes 2005

That's looking better

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Some hastened php scripting and MySQL table amendments, and the news and blog feeds are starting to roll again.

I've removed the calendar - it wasn't being used and was dumping a lot of junk into a temp/cache directory. I'd like to collaborate with someone on an ical-based fixtures calendar - anyone interested?

The other pending change to the site is that I will retire the tipping competition following the conclusion of the Zimbabwe-India Test series. It's had a low takeup and the software is very clumsy for both users and administrator.

What part of Aargh! don't you understand?

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This website is back (I think) after 36 hours off the air. Apparently the server on which this site is hosted had some sort of massive failure, and has now been replaced and the data restored. Well, Sunday's backup restored anyway. Any updates to the site in the last few hours before the crash (about midday Monday Sydney time) are lost, but I don't recall any off hand in any case.

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