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At the time I had some discussion with an Algerian friend of mine who said that Zidane should have killed Materazzi for that comment as this is the worst kind of insult you could direct at an Algerian. … So it turns out that Materazzi did not say anything of the sort, instead saying that he preferred Zidane’s sister to the French captain’s offer of his shirt, which Materazzi was pulling at a corner.

I listened to the podcast of the Russell Brand radio programme last week and there was a thread running through the show that I really didn’t believe at the time.
Brand and his co-host, Jonathan Ross, phoned the voicemail of the actor Andrew Sachs. In a previous show, Brand had said that he had been in [...]

A story on the BBC website says that a Bristol University study claims that across 1,200 hours of radio output, 73% of all comments made by presenters about drinking or getting drunk encouraged drinking.
I have long had a problem with this.
The same radio stations that carry stories about binge drinking will move immediately to a [...]

I will be running in the Great British 10k tomorrow (Sunday July 6th) with my wife.
We haven’t done any training for it but we are determined to make it to the end wheter we run it or take some walk breaks.
I’ll be using my phone to upload my progress to http://tracker.modaco.com/index.php?mid=167946

So here it is, the first post.
I have been setting up blogs and offering blog marketing advice for a couple of years now and the advice I always give is to write about something you know, keep it regular and create good quality content.
If you have good content, people will come to the site.
The problem [...]