Sven's-day !

I don't go to many games at all, in fact I haven't been in perhaps the last couple of years, I'm more of a fan than a supporter, in fact I'm not really sycophantic about football at all apart from enjoying world cups and watching out for my favourite team on a Saturday so imagine my glee when the below almost surreal story unfolded last night and today, Wednesday the 22nd, or otherwise know as Sven's-day!

Sven-Goran Eriksson, former England Manager has been announced as 'Director of Football' at my beloved Notts County. Call it uncanny but when the six o' clock news announced they'd tell you who Sven had been linked with on news at ten I instantly thought it was my team. I hastily searched google for news and my bizarre sixth sense was confirmed before my eyes, Sven was on his way to Meadow Lane, and my heart sang. It was only 2 years ago that Notts County bereft of luck and cash faced expulsion from the Football league, and being the worlds oldest league club it would have been a bitter tragedy. Jimmy Sirrel the old former Scottish manager was wheeled out, the man in the twilight of his years roused Meadow Lane with words of encouragement and County stayed up after scoring in the 80th minute.

I'm sure Sven with his extensive knowledge of the game and contacts will bring something good to Meadow Lane, after years in obscurity Notts County deserve to be back where they belong, in top flight football.

Nell

So it came to pass a couple of weeks back that 'Nell' my trusty desktop pc died. It had been on the cards for months really but I managed to keep her going in a cobbled together fashion. Nothing lasts forever as they say and computer components seem to change overnight these days! Nell, who got her nickname from the ships computer in the sci-fi movie 'Battle beyond the stars' has done really well over the 5 or so years I've had her. So now is the time to get a new model, which I'm actually thinking of having a friend build, far cheaper and more power for your money. After checking out ebuyer.com we worked out the fundamentals of a new pc which came to £666 (the beast!), ironically when we checked the same spec machine on PC world the spec was actually slightly less but the cost was an exorbitant £1,500. I still have my laptop for day to day stuff but I don't think you can beat a tower pc as a main hub for all computing activities.