Out in the cold

Monday, April 17, 2006

Tayls update

Quote from Glen Roeder

"I've been very impressed with Steven Taylor," said Roeder. "Some days he works on his own but he's back to a level of physical fitness. If he had full movement in the shoulder he'd be fit enough to play."

"Physically he'd have been okay to send out to play on Sunday but we have to get the full range of movement in his shoulder,"

"He's been doing lots of swimming and working in the gym. In between times he's out working with us."

"It's not a problem of us saying, `Be careful, no crashing into Steven.' The problem is to get Steven to stop crashing into players,"

"It's a long time since I've seen a player who I get the feeling would kick his granny to win and that's lovely - although not for granny."

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Football

A 3-1 win over Wigan kept Newcastle's slim chances of a european place alive. Uriah Rennie had a truly awful game, Wigan and Newcastle fans both incensed by what was one of the most inept performances in recent years. Despite lacking the pace he once had, and playing the last few matches of his career, Shearer bagged a brace and drew the defenders to allow Bramble a free header for the third.

With 7th place likely to carry the reward of european football the last few games of the season still have all to play for.

Boltons game in hand puts them in the driving seat but Newcastle do have a good run in and have struck form since the introduction of Roeder.

Newcastle (prediction 57 pts)

Trips to all three relegation favorites on paper gives an easy run in, but with the teams playing for pride this could be a bad time to play them. A win over the mackems is a must (as always) but this game has more sitting on it than many thought likely only a month ago.

Bolton (prediction 56 pts)

The side most likely to stop Newcastle's charge. Despite playing two relegation candidates Bolton may have difficulties with the two trips to the capital.

Wigan (prediction 54 pts)

Wigan have had a stunning season, with the manager and players catching the eye of a number of clubs. Injuries and strong opponents will make it difficult for the club to push on to europe

West Ham (prediction 52 pts)

Despite occupying the 7th spot West Ham will find it hard to hold on to as trips to arsenal and spurs who are fighting for the last champions league spot will prove to be too much.

Happy Birthday Me!

Many thanks to PW for the yummy coconut birthday cake (and the prezzies)

EOS 350d

These photos were taken with my new toy! (Happy Birthday to me....) using the standard 18-55mm lens kit. The biggest drawback with this camera is that the images average 2.5mp (RAW images about 10mb) so i will quickly need aditional hard drives....

Sunday, April 02, 2006

Whats with the pictures?

This page has just started to use HELLO to publish photos. The software works like any other chat client but is designed with picture handling in mind. This allows fast and simple sharing of photos without messing with e-mail attachments, with the added bonus that it has been designed to integrate with blogger, allowing the easy update of this blog.

Anything that shaves seconds off jobs is a good thing in my bone idle mind.

GWIP.

From the www.Hello.com website

Share pictures like you’re sitting side-by-side.
Hello is a new way to look at pictures with friends and family.
When you use Hello, you get to see your photographs together with your friends online. You don’t have to wait for huge email attachments to download or upload your pictures to a public website. Just point at a picture and you can tell the person who sent it exactly what you think. With just one click, you can get the original high-quality, full-sized file to print.

Hello is easy to get going (as long as you have someone to share with). You’ll be talking about pictures in just minutes.