Good Sport

We got tickets and went to see the opening night of The Games over at the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham. It was freezing cold but it made a good night out. We saw the Jet Skiing and Kayak events.

We're now watching the Commonwealth Games and I'm also keeping the local Age Groups Swimming Gala Results up-to-date over at www.lasa-results.org.uk

Google Chat

I just (finally) got gmail google chat - the integrated version. Brilliant. Not only can you get distracted from something dealing with an email, but now you can get distracted reading it with a chat from someone! Still, definitely looks good.

I just found that the google spell checker doesn't know of the word google either ;)

Now waiting for google calendar...

Other google news is that I tried to apply to carry google adwords on a site I hosted. I want to raise some more money for the children's Brain Tumour Research Centre in Nottingham but google have turned down the application. They seem quite happy to accept my money for google adwords though for advertising...

Football

We've just been and watched Leicester v Derby tonight. Good football. The fans in the kop end were throwing stuffed toy sheep around, Derby being known as the "Rams". Brilliant. Refereeing was appalling. In junior football refs seem to blow the whistle for every other throwing, two feet should be on the floor, hands over the head.. in the Championship it never gets picked up. Do the refs think grown ups needn't bother?

Google Toolbar Button

I just put together a Google Toolbar Button that takes you to the tracker page for Royal Mail. Just highlight the tracking number (e.g. DP645035876GB ) and press the new button.

You can install it by clicking this link. You will need to install google toolbar (v4) first - its more good google gear and now includes bookmarks. You can get the latest google toolbar from http://www.google.com/tools/toolbar/T4/index.html

UPDATE: My button has been listed in the google gallery Here's my entry.

Swimming Results

A new database is up and running in beta testing over at http://www.lasa-results.org.uk/2006/index.php for the Leicestershire County Age Groups.

Free Talk

I just got Freetalk, from the guys who started freeserve (which became wanadoo). Read about it over here. I got a good local number and can now get free calls within the UK. I've got a router and fair amount of network set-up here, but it worked "out the box". I'll write up a review after we've used it a while, but initially its great!

Lottery results for Charity

Another site I run is called www.yourlotteryresults.co.uk I took it over a couple of years ago. It got a bit boring, then I thought I'd try and raise money through it, so I implemented an automated paypal payment system. We charge £3 for a years subscription, and each year we buy cuddly toys, dvds and other good stuff for Ward E39 at Nottinghams Queens Medical Centre, and if we can we give more money to Childrens Brain Tumour Reseach at Nottingham University.

You can see how badly me and a friends lottery syndicate, which we started when working in Milan when the lottery started here.