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I've been asked by marketing to write a proposal for an event. Here's how the brief starts. "It will be a semi-blank canvas. That is, we want to leverage a global core agenda and theme, adjusted to reflect nuances and key factors in each market to optimize relevance." Does anyone have a clue...

I always used to wonder why so many people moaned about builders: I know now. We've been trying to have some work done on our house since March: we have architectural drawings and a structural engineer's report so builders aren't flying blind but it's proving to be impossible to find one. We...

To test my theory that you can get an answer to anything on NSC, can anyone solve the last clue in last Sat's Guardian crossword - it's driving me mad. "Scottish trees are a pain in the Bahamas" Five letters: -I - K - I thought it must begin with S for Scottish but couldn't any tree beginning...

Frizzell County Championship - Division One Hampshire v Sussex at The Rose Bowl Hampshire first innings 7 for 0, from 3.4 overs. MJ Brown not out 5 CC Benham not out 2 Extras 0 TOTAL: 0 wkts , 3.4 overs 7 Bowler O...

I met a guy yesterday who's doing research into football fans and the Internet. He's looking for supporters who can answer a few questions about how they use the web. If anyone would like to take part could they mail him at shant@soi.city.ac.uk (Shant's his name). He's a nice guy and the...

Who needs a gut-buster? I think the value meal looks particularly wholesome :) One US light snack

Finally got round to looking at the programme for the Reading game and was staggered to see that the "all-time great" Reading team didn't include Friday. This would be like an alll-time great Brighton team not including Peter Ward. The programme didn't give the names of the geniuses who...

This has just been posted on the BHA Forums site. Look like the NIMBYs are getting more active. "I've been involved with the attempts to limit B&H Albion's expansion of Withdean and despite the fact that their first planning permission has now been declared illegal due to no EIA...

My local branch of the Halifax is advertisng that Howard Brown will be making a personal appearance there next week. Anyone got any idea why? I can understand people making PAs at bookstores or musicstores as they're going to sell more books but do the Halifax really think that HB is going to...

Someone on NSC used a phrase to describe a woman who looks fine from the back and a bit rough from the front. The phrase had something to do with Kronenberg but I can't remember what it was. It was a rather distasteful phrase and not one that I'd use myself but I now need to recall it. Anyone...

Why? I didn't hear any announcement as to why - although I suspect that it was the poor PA more than anything.

I've completed my move home and very traumatic it's been. There are millions of things to do, but my main concern is some plumbing and electrical work that needs doing. Does anyone on NSC know a decent plumber and a decent sparks who could sort me out? Ones that won't involve taking out a new...

In an hour's time, I'm switching the PC off and packing it up. The next time I log on (which won't be at home for some time, thanks BT), I'll be a Brighton resident again. Can't wait. See some of you wearing red tomorrow.

"Oracle CEO Ellison looking to buy sports team Larry Ellison is passionate about more than America's Cup sailing. The billionaire Oracle Corp. chief executive is in the market for a basketball or football team, he said Friday. Ellison has shopped around but found there are no teams for sale...

I know this will mean sod-all to everyone else on this board but, after 23 years of living in London, I'm finally moving back to Brighton: the estate agents contacted me last night to confirm my completion date. I'll be swapping Selhurst Park (which has been my nearest league ground for the...

A friend who's a Leeds season ticket holder has sent me this. Interesting what the author says about the police give the experiences of the people in the Railway Bell. (I haven't edited this in any way, are paragraph breaks not allowed north of The Wash?) A grand day out Trains delayed or...

Just finished reading Peter Oborne's book about Basil D'Oliveira: it's a terrific read. It reveals for the first time (officially anyyway) the depths of collusion between the South African government and MCC, and how far the establishment would go to kow tow to the apartheid regime. It also...

A friend of mine got married a couple of weeks ago and I spoke to her yesterday for the first time since her wedding (which I couldn't go to). She told me that the evening had ended with a bit of barney as some bloke had a made a pass at her and her husband had then got involved: it all got...

Channel 4 decided to change the time this week, so my videotape ran out about 20 mins from the end. The last thing I saw was Tony's father-in-law about to open his presents. What happened after that?

From the BBC Gould leaves post at Posh Former Wales manager Bobby Gould quit his position as Peterborough's head coach at half-time during their LDV Vans 1-0 defeat at Bristol City. Paul Heffernan's seventh minute goal put City through, and after the match manager Barry Fry revealed his...