Good news for Sam Newman

After having surgery to remove his cancerous prostate, News Limited reports that the cancer has not spread.
Not that I really follow the AFL, nor care much for Newman’s numerous moments of infamy on the AFL Footy Show, but instances such as this are a timely reminder and raise awareness of the potentially deadly nature of [...]

Try making sense of this classifieds ad

Gumtree is an online classifieds/buy/sell/swap site that works just like the Trading Post or any other for sale website like Craigslist. Often there are legitimate ads from people who actually have stuff to sell, and there are the odd instances of scams (of which I was actually a victim last year).
Tonight I stumbled across a [...]

How to deal with unrepentant teenagers

Gemma Anscomb is England’s Corey Worthington – a teenager who used the Internet to advertise a party and turned her parents’ house into a warzone, and doesn’t care about what her actions have caused.
The story of a party that appears to have involved group sex, illicit drugs (which have placed the family pet’s life in [...]

The FA Cup

Here are the teams remaining in the hunt for the FA Cup, world football’s most prestigious cup competition:

Middlesbrough or Cardiff City
Portsmouth
Bristol Rovers or West Bromwich Albion
Barnsley

The mighty have fallen by the wayside this year, and the typical “romance” story of each year’s competition is shared by an astonishing 6 non-Premier League sides. The last time [...]