foolfillment: the blog


Archive for February, 2003

Tour called off because of poor ticket sales

9:01 am on the 19th of February, 2003

I found this story on the newly redesigned BBC News site this morning:

A joint tour by pop acts Girls Aloud and One True Voice has been called off because of poor ticket sales.
The tour had been scheduled to start in March, taking in major venues including London’s Wembley Arena and Birmingham NEC

Perhaps they should have started at somewhere like King Tut’s in Glasgow or The Cavern in Liverpool, that’s where most young bands go to try and launch their careers isn’t it?

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Popstars tour cancelled

feel free to buy me this:

7:46 pm on the 18th of February, 2003

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Fans await Beatles ‘jam’ footage

Burley’s outburst

10:52 am on the 18th of February, 2003
Burley said: “Any blind man with a dog can see I’m being left out for personal reasons and not for football reasons.”

More likely is that he’s been left out because he’s about as usefull as a blind man.

Burley launches into Gregory

Happy Birthday Bobby

8:05 am on the 18th of February, 2003

BBC SPORT | Football | Teams | Newcastle United | Robson seeks birthday cheer

it’s riduiculous, he shouldn’t be this good at his age

Raging Ferguson ‘injures Beckham

4:48 pm on the 17th of February, 2003

BBC SPORT | Football | Teams | Man Utd | Raging Ferguson ‘injures Beckham’

Update : Guardian Unlimited Football | News | Beckham demands a full apology

a busy weekend:

9:25 pm on the 16th of February, 2003

Last night I was at the vet ball at the Thistle Hotel with the girlfriend and it was pretty good. I’m glad I went, there was a really nice meal, a celeidh and Astrid played as well.

There have also been some changes here as you can no doubt tell. I keep doing this, I start a proper redesign but end up just tweaking because I just can’t be arsed but anyway, I now have a proper quote box type thing:

see, a nice dashed border and everything

and you can use it too when (if) you comment.

I do have one question though, is it possible to have 2 different styles for links? As you can see the links on the left hand side are quite dark against the background but if I change them to a lighter colour (something like the random bit above) then the links in the main section are too light to see properly. Any hints?

hmm, that doesn’t actually sound that busy reading it back but, let me assure you it was, so busy in fact that everyones too tired to go to the lock tonight, and we always go on a Sunday – it’s 60’s/70’s request night!
Everyone knows it’s good to start the week witha few pints and some Beach Boys and The Jam.

have you ever heard of such nonsense?

6:01 pm on the 14th of February, 2003

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Sticky patch over gum row

A Scottish council is being urged to introduce an immediate ban on chewing gum at all of its meetings.

The call comes from Falkirk councillor William Buchanan amid fears that colleagues chewing gum in meetings “could be in danger” of choking to death.

In a letter to council leader David Alexander, he requests that “a fully trained first-aider” should be present at meetings if a ban is not approved.

A Love Story

4:30 pm on the 14th of February, 2003

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Interactive. Blair Brown photo love

census results

2:43 pm on the 13th of February, 2003

i haven’t had chance to read these yet, but will do soon
BBC NEWS | UK | At a glance: Census results

Scotland v Ireland

4:53 pm on the 12th of February, 2003

My prediction:

32-19 to Scotland

I am of course talking about the rugby on Sunday.

Tonight’s score will be:

2-1 to Ireland.

Update: I didn’t see the game but I half listened to the radio, was it really that bad? Did the team show any passion, or desire to win this time, that at least was something Brown’s teams showed most times they played. Vogts’ teams so far look like they couldn’t care less about the result whenever I’ve seen them.