Euro 2004

If you live in Europe, then it can't have escaped your attention that Euro 2004 started yesterday! I found a new thing on BBC sport that replays goals and incidents virtually, just in case you couldn't see the TV coverage. It's called "Virtual Replay." A brilliant idea. I work in 3d graphics and simulation so it's especially interesting to me to find that this sort of thing is taking off in sport (there's Channel 4's Hawkeye and Virtual spectator who do yachting, rallying, etc) and even game shows like Time Commanders.

Anyway, back to Euro 2004 and completely unrelated to 3d graphics, my Tournament Predictor might interest you if you want to see who the team you're supporting could meet in later rounds. The BBC sport one does scores too.

Tags: Euro 2004, Virtual Spectator

Yeah baby! Sold my first thing on eBay today - a wireless broadband router. This buying and selling business could get addictive... well if I had some money it might! Must say though, there are some good deals out there, at least compared to the rip-off prices in high street shops...

Related: eBay

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It's D-Day +60 today. I think "La Legion D'Honneur" should be renamed "La Legend D'Honneur"... (partly because that's what I always thought it was until this afternoon...)

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I got my postal voting forms a while ago and today got round to deciding on who to vote for. However, as I was about to mark the boxes I discovered this really patronising letter from one of the candidates detailing how I should vote! There aren't any letters from the other candidates! Having been attacked charity-mugger-style by the man on Sun I'm already not too keen on him... Is this allowed? It seems a bit unfair.

(Kingston was quite the place to meet "celebs" last weekend. I saw Christian O'Connell on Sat... the Xfm breakfast DJ...).

Tags: election

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Gwyneth Paltrow has named her baby girl Apple. I mean, that's just asking for abuse! Any guesses on the middle names? Cider, Juice, Schnapps? Maybe Apple is the middle name and she's actually called "Bad"? There must be some logic to it! Is it because Gywneth's real name is "Tree" and apples don't fall far from the tree...? Hmmm. Is it that she craved apples during the pregnancy? I'm just glad that I was called David, especially since my mum craved tomatoes and this stuff the taiwanese love to eat called smelly tofu. (It's actually quite nice.) Perhaps there was a little oversight with my chinese name though i.e. with it being "ha" which can be literally translated as "leisure pavilion". That's right, I'm a Butler in a pavilion of leisure. Maybe it's fate, as I'm writing this at my bachelor pad in a fairly leisurely manner. I'm not joking, there are blocks of flats in Taipei called my name ~~and a dodgy motel or two I bet~~.

Related: Gwyneth Paltrow, Apple

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This is cool. Go to church online.