Monthly Archives: November 2007

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Last night was the last night (of the Stockholm Film Festival). We went to the Grand cinema to see Great World of Sound. Unfortunately, the only great thing was in the name. The cinema room was about 40sqm and packed … Continue reading →

Just incase anybody wasn’t sure how all the group systems worked in the world-cup qualifiers, they use the same system as in US94. Here is a video from Alan Partridge who explains it using a simple “Soccermeter” method. Haha, that’s … Continue reading →

The football never ends here at GaryWritesABlog.com! Today is the draw for the 2010 world cup qualifiers. 53 European countries will compete for 13 spaces at the finals in South Africa. Scotland is in the second seeded pot so I … Continue reading →

Last night it got pretty cold, down to -6 overnight. This morning it was frosty and bright sun so we went downtown and had a walk around. In NK, the big departement store, Santa was sitting under a giant Christmas … Continue reading →

One of the reasons I haven’t been blogging much recently is because I have been busy working on a project that runs alongside the Stockholm Film Festival. Tonight me and Maria took the chance to go and see one of … Continue reading →

In the U.K, the government put the names, addresses, bank account numbers and national insurance numbers of 25 million people onto a couple of CD’s and stuck them in the nearest post box. Amazingly, 1 month later the records of … Continue reading →

From the book “Delete This At Your Peril – One Man’s Fearless Exchanges With The Internet Spammers” by Neil Forsyth. The 29-year-old Dundonian invented a bloke called Bob Servant, to frustrate and ridicule crooks who tried to rip him off. … Continue reading →

After a terrible start, the Scotland players done us proud and played a blinder against the world champions. In the end, it wasn’t to be and we fell down 2-1 thanks to an extremely dodgy injury time winner. Can’t blame … Continue reading →

Haven’t logged a blog for a while, cos I’ve been working hard, but also cos I’ve been in Scotland! We flew across last Friday and on Saturday we took Maria to visit Stirling and the Wallace monument. Neil and my … Continue reading →