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With the final game of EURO 2008 now over, it is time to breathe in the Alpine air and take stock. Overall, it has been one of the better tournaments of recent years. The football has for the most part been attacking and open, an improvement on Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup and broadly as exciting as Euro 2000, although the final's denouement will colour the final analysis. I found only France v Romania a turn-off, although Croatia v Turkey would have had me switching channels if I had no

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Please note: this is a temporary post. F1 Digest was all done, written and ready to record, but we had to wait for the 5live folks to finish their extended broadcast for the British GP. It was actually fun, because there’s free beer and we got to listen in. However, just as they finished up and cleared the media tent, so the fireworks and the live music started. Presumably this was no coincidence, but unfortunately we at Sidepodcast do not have the power to ask them to hold off for ten more mi

You Can Beat So Does Team Garmin by Justin Davis BREST, France, July 4, 2008 (AFP) - This time last year David Millar came back to the Tour de France with the air of a debutant trying to find his way in the race hierarchy. Ahead of the first stage on Saturday, a 197.5km ride over undulating terrain between here and Plumelec, the 31-year-old Scot is now harboring realistic aims of winning another prestigious stage on the world’s biggest bike race. And maybe even ending his eight-year w

Travelling around Europe on my TechCrunch Euro Tour one of the topics of conversation I hear almost constantly is the desire for more seed funding for startups. Right now there is no such thing as Ycombinator-style incubator for startups which is pan-European. However, the closest thing we have to that concept - a startup competition where the prize is a cash injection to get the product built in exchange for a stake - is Seedcamp. Inside a year since it’s launch last September, Seedcamp CEO R

First off, let me say that my hat’s off to the Colombian military, which pulled off one of the best bait and switch schemes to rescue 15 hostages long held by FARC that anyone could imagine. Pretending to be FARC allies who wanted to move the hostages by helicopter for an interview with an international relief agency, they persuaded the FARC guerrillas to allow them aboard two helicopters along with two FARC guards. When they were airbornes the guards were (I like this part) “overpowered” (I

Today is the 4th of July here in the US. As a country, we celebrate our independence (and watch fireworks) and the formation of our nation. It's a big deal here. I'm not always "proud to be an American", but I am proud of where I'm from. Sometimes my government does things I'm not proud of. But I am free to say that without fearing that I will be punished for my viewpoints. I never take that for granted because I was never allowed to- both of my grandfathers served in the second World War, I hav

July 4-5 2008 Air Temperatures – The following maximum temperatures were recorded across the state of Hawaii Friday: Lihue, Kauai - 84 Honolulu, Oahu - 89 Kaneohe, Oahu - 83 Kahului, Maui - 86 Hilo, Hawaii - 86 Kailua-kona - 85 Air Temperatures ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level at 5 a.m. Friday morning: Honolulu, Oahu - 76F Hilo, Hawaii - 69 Precipitation Totals – The following numbers represent the largest precipitation totals (inches) during th

[UPDATE at the bottom of the post] Travolution is off to California in November for the PhoCusWright conference. So, browsing Kayak - and other sites, hasten to add - for a flight from London to LAX, and we find this little nugget of good fortune: The search results shows an Air France return flight from LHR to LAX on the required dates. On the Air France website it is £862; on ebookers £384!! Schurely schome mishtake? Follow the link through to ebookers and - da-da - the same fare is stil

This is the talk I gave at Earth Sciences back in May. It’s long and picture heavy and much of it will be be familiar to regular readers, but some people expressed some interest in it so here it is. I’ve lightly edited it, mainly to correct typos in my written copy. I’ve put in links to the Boswell drawings because they’re under copyright, and I’ve replaced one photo because I realised it was of British Army Aeroplane No. 1b, not British Army Aeroplane No. 1a! How embarrassing. Facing Armagedd

An interesting look at today's politics and a comparison between John McCain and Khalid Sheik Mohammed: Ugly Liberals: Only Care If Terrorists Are Tortured, Not If Americans Are The “Ugly Liberal” is coming out in the Democrat Party. A close cousin to the Ugly American - who would go to Europe and other places and display such arrogance and snobbery that it gave all America a bad reputation - this is the election for the Ugly Liberal. It is their hate of Americans, conservatives, life, etc tha

How to Effectively Target Gay Travel Markets Explored at World Travel Market 2008 Lesbian and gay travelers have the same wide demographic segments as the straight traveling population. A retired lesbian couple will have very different expectations about their ideal vacation to a 21 year old gay backpacker, yet the traditional view about these travelers within the travel industry has been that there is a single “gay market." The industry misperception that gay travelers form a homogen

Which country is the rogue nation? Iraq? Iran? Or the United States? Syndicated columnist Charley Reese asks this question in a recently published article. Reese notes that it is the US that routinely commits "acts of aggression around the globe." The US government has no qualms about dropping bombs on civilians whether they be in Serbia, the Middle East, or Africa. It is all in a good cause - our cause. This slaughtering of foreigners doesn't seem to bother the American public. Americans t