Last week I started work at Sony London, as a senior programmer, working on… well I’m not sure if I am allowed to say, so I’d better not risk it.

So far I’m enjoying every minute of it, although getting into the office at 9am every morning is a bit of a shock to my system!

Caroline pointed out this little tidbit from the New Scientist.

THE board for Beebe School District in Arkansas voted on 12 July to remove from textbooks stickers promoting an “intelligent designer” over evolution. Feedback wonders if they were influenced by an open letter to the State Board of Education in neighbouring Kansas circulated by Bobby Henderson, a “concerned citizen”.

“Let us remember that there are multiple theories of intelligent design,” is its crux. “I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster,” Henderson affirms. </cite>

Actually Caroline was pointing me at the story about Microsoft and Apple on the same page, but it was the Flying Spaghetti Monster that caught my eye.

I’ve just finished a spell of contracting back at Sports Interactive, and I’d just like to say cheers to everyone there for making me very welcome once again.

It was scary how easily I fitted back in (and even scarier that I’m sure there were things in the fridge that have been there since I left last year).

The place is still completely bonkers in many ways, and I could feel myself getting dragged back into the arguments about coding that caused me to resign in the first place, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it - hard not to with such a nice bunch of people.

Football Manager 2006 is looking good too…

Next week I start The New Job(TM). Call me superstitious, but after the Dublin experience I think I’ll wait until I’m actually there before saying anything more…

… to know that the internet contains everything you could ever need in the way of useless trivia.

I was recently browsing the International Hero website (as you do), and I discovered that Hong Kong Phooey’s real name was actually Penry, when all this time I thought it was Henry.

Oh what a fool I’ve been…

Not much fun to be had once again at Loftus Road on Monday night.

Ainsworth looked up for it - including the outrageous hand ball in the second half which he was very lucky to get away with!

I thought Dyer looked quite good, but unfortunately there were times when Palace just ripped the defence to shreds. Big Dan had a bad game, Santos was rubbish as usual, and even Bignot had trouble, particularly after set pieces that we had in their half where we lost possession and they hoofed the ball up for Morrisson to chase after.

Birch was bustling, but still strangely ineffectual compared to a couple of seasons ago, and Doherty was disappointingly quiet. Cook had a few good runs, and interchanged well with Dyer at times, but also had plenty of times where he didn’t release the ball quickly enough, and we lost possession as a result.

Up front, Furlong was excellent but frustrated by lack of service, whilst Moore was anonymous. Langley and Baidoo came on late in the day, but neither of them imposed themselves in any way.

On balance, I thought Palace thoroughly deserved the win.

Not much fun for me having to travel back to West Dulwich (hint: that’s West Dulwich, within walking distance of Crystal Palace).