all talk and no action

Dan Grabham has written an interesting piece over at CESuncovered.com on the "unique networking challenge" presented by the FIFA World Cup. The mammoth task of providing network connections to stadiums, staff and journalists involved 8,000 kilometres of cable, 40,000 network connections, 70 servers and 3,500 Toshiba laptops. And, no doubt, an awful lot of stress.

I'm in no way immune from the odd typo myself, but that doesn't stop me from pointing out a mildly amusing one over at Journalism.co.uk:

Last week the Guardian announced that it would pursue an internet-fist publishing policy for certain business and international stories.

Two entirely unrelated items, but a headline that needed to exist somewhere on the web. It should be the name of a band, or a child's book, perhaps. Anyway, I've made a minor tweak to this site, so if you're using Windows Vista Beta 2 or 2007 Microsoft Office System Beta 2 you'll see the typeface has changed to Segoe UI. For everyone else it should still be Verdana.

Second, I've discovered the existence of custard trucks. I had no idea there was such a thing until this morning when I saw a truck that looked exactly like a petrol tanker only the tank was yellow and it said CUSTARD on the back. At first I assumed it was a petrol tanker owned by Custard and Sons, Purveyors of Fine Petroleum Products, but a closer look at the side of the truck confirmed that it did actually contain custard (there were other words on the side such as 'whey' and 'milk products'). Unfortunately, I didn't have a stick of rhubarb with me, or I would have waved it at the driver.

I have something else in mind.