Archive for July, 2008

Time for a new search engine?

July 28, 2008 in Technology
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A colleague of mine today pointed out a brand new search engine had just gone on line. It’s called Cuil (pronounced ‘Cool’ – an old Irish word for knowledge apparently.)
My first reaction was one of indifference. After all, do we really need a new search engine when absolutely everyone these days uses Google? Surely they [...]

The Lookout (2007)

July 28, 2008 in DVDs

Watched this on DVD on Saturday evening.
Thanks to the title, I was expecting a thriller about a bank heist. And when I read that the main character, Chris, was a janitor coping with recovering from a serious head trauma who happened to be working in the bank, I assumed that this film was something along [...]

Let’s talk about the weather …

July 28, 2008 in Miscellany
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I’m just going to have one quick whinge about the weather: it’s too hot!
Yes, I know, this is being ungrateful for some glorious sun and soaring temperatures. But I can’t help it, I’m just not a fan of high temperatures – at least, not here in the UK where they seem inseparable from suffocating, soaking [...]

NASCAR: Round 20 – Allstate 400, the Brickyard – July 27

July 28, 2008 in Redirect

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IRL: Round 14 – Rexall Edmonton Indy, Canada – July 26

July 28, 2008 in Redirect

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