Martin McDowell's Blog

Ravno se je končala zaključna slovesnost Olimpijskih iger v Pekingu in oči so seveda že zazrte v London, ki bo gostil naslednje OI leta 2012. Tu se mnogi sprašujejo, kako bodo OI uspele Britancem (ker živim v Veliki Britaniji »tu« pomeni v Britaniji in ne v Sloveniji). V primerjavi s Kitajsko VB ni ravno velika [...]

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It is possible, at least if the suspicions of a hacker »Stryde Hax« a.k.a. Mike Walker are true. There is a possibility that the Chinese gymanst He Kexin that won the gold medal at the uneven bars at the Beiging olympics in 2008 was born 01-Jan-1994 and not 01-Jan-1992 as the Olympic website now states, [...]

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I have put it off for a long time but a sightee-er to Tenby was well due. The town of Tenby lies on the south Pembrokeshire coast and if leaving from Haverfordwest can take the road across the Cledau bridge or you can, by saving the 75p bridge toll and, depriving the Pembrokeshire County Council [...]

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I received a mail today from an on-line publisher of digital travel guides called Schmap that my photo of Bristol Cathedral was chosen to be included in the fifth edition of the Schmap Bristol Guide. I received an e-mail a while ago saying that the photo was short-listed for it and I didn’t think my [...]

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Če izgleda, da bom delal reklamo za WordPress, potem ste prebrali prav. Tale blog, ki ga trenutno gledate (poleti, leta gospodovega 2008), deluje v spletni aplikaciji, ki se ji reče WordPress. Blog sem začel pisati konec 2006 na Googlovem Bloggerju (a.k.a. Blogspot-u) a mi je bilo dosti omejene funkcionalnosti, ki jo je nudil Google. Kupil [...]

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Živim v državi, kjer imajo že večletno zgodovino zavesti za boljšo skrb živali. To sicer morda vsakogar ne bi prepričalo po branju člankov o večletni tradiciji brutalnih lovov na lisice, so pa nasprotno precej bolj strpni in dobrodelni do hišnih ljubljencev in konjev in bi marsikaj storili za njihovo blagostanje. Ravno ta teden smo se [...]

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