a blog from space...

i'm sure its been done before but i just love the idea of a regular person blogging from outer space. Anousheh Ansari is telling us some of the things we've always wanted to know?!
http://spaceblog.xprize.org/

after further investigation, watch live NASA TV here

and bizzarely, check out Anousheh's 'theme tune' produced by Deep Dish

prize for the first comment

ok, I'm conducting a little experiment....

I'm new to this blogging thing and I know that each blog is a very personal account of whats going on in that persons head. This obviously leads to posts about things that no-one cares about at all!

So, I'm putting a small challenge out....I'm offering a small prize of some sort of prize realted to Australia for the first person to post a comment on this blog.

Each month the dollar value will rise by $10 (aus) from today.

terrible terrible terrible

Leading for most of the game at home and then to lose it in 20 minutes!! Wednesday seemed to have 20 minutes of madness after a solid performance for most of the game. Derby went down to 10 men and we continued to push, throwing on 3 unfit strikers to get the winning goal only to be hit in extra time by a winning goal from Derby. We must improve, there is no excuse for a home defeat like this!

So what is the answer???

Do we have to get rid of Sturrock, I just don't think its as easy as this. I think we just have to wait, once all the strikers are back up to fitness we'll have a proper team that can challenge the others in the championship. Don't get me wrong, I don't think we'll be challenging for playoffs but I think, I like most other wednesdayites juts want middle table mediocrity this season.

unconvincing win for sydney fc

i thought I'd give Star City a go to watch the football and was disappointed in a number of ways. A poor performance and not a great venue. Sydney are desperately missing some key players. I don't think Carbone is the answer either. He'll sink Sydney into debt in the same way he did with Sheffield Wednesday and Bradford City. Sydney lost the league when they sold Yorke. Anyway, less of the doom and gloom. If Sydney don't win the a-league this year it wouldn't be a bad thing (can't believe i said that). For the good of the game in Australia we need healthy competition and Melbourne, QLD and Adelaide are all providing this.

back now....

well, after 4 posts way back in March, I'm now back and this time i mean business. I'm not exactly sure what type of business as I'm still not sure what my blog will be about. I reckon that the most successful blogs are the ones where you can see the passion of the writer come through. So i have a feeling this will morph into a blog about sport and media. Lets see how we go.....

Eng 2 v 1 Uru

I got the score wrong but the result was right - just!!

England pulled another one out of the bag last night with a Joe Cole winner in the third minute of extra time. England were down 1-0 for most of the match, but Peter Crouch scored his debut goal (and about time too!) late on.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/4754630.stm

Still not a convincing result considering England are being touted as potential winners for the World Cup 2006!!

Also worth noting that they used their new red (circa 1966) kits last night - looking very sharp indeed.


FYI - minutes silence was for late great England Manager, Ron Greenwood
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/front_page/1447218.stm

England v Uruguay

England v Urugauy tonight in a friendly, uruguay are a team that were battered by australia in the world cup qualifier. A very professional defensive team but England should win 3-0.

....we will see!

cheeky little monkey

Surely inspired by the superb Sky Sports (UK) show - 'soccer am'

here is the clip with sound as it appeared on the BBC

Whats the story...?

So here is where it starts, there have been a few false dawns with this blogging thing but I'm finally going to make a go of this one. I guess that I now understand a little more about what makes a successful blog and I think the key is passion. You have to have a passion for what you are writing about. I'm hoping that this blog will help me hone my writing skills and also show people what I'm passionate about. You'll find that football (I will never call it soccer) is one of these passions that comes to the front but I reckon I'd like to talk about other stuff too.

Just to give you a little background so you can put things into context. I'm in my late twenties, originally from Sheffield (city in the north of England) and I've been living in Sydney, Australia for the past 2 and a half years and very much enjoying life down under. Before moving to Sydney I lived in London for 4 years after graduating from university in northern England.