 | 12 February 2002 |
GB women open in style "Rhona Martin skipped Great Britain's women to a 10-6 victory over Norway as they opened their Olympic campaign in style in Salt Lake City... " [BBC]
If you thought curlers were things worn by Hilda Ogden, think again. Keep an eye on our ice maidens and the curling results in Salt Lake City. It's one of the few winter sports that we really are up with the top flight. Gaun yersel GB (Really Scotland in disguise) !
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McKenna 'gutted' by failure [BBC] 3:10:36 AM
"Womens portal launches subscription services. "Europemedia.net Feb 11 2002 [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 2:45:01 AM
"14681 » February 11 3:28 PM. Manic Miner Believe me when I say that suddenly every British reader who had a computer in the 1980s has started to grin. Well here it is, just one click away. What the heck was that yellow thing in the 'Central Cavern'? Also at this Java ZX Spectrum Emulator site, see the sequel Jet Set Willy. " [via linkmachinego] [MetaFilter]
Oh my God. It can't be! Only I didn't just grin, my heart skipped a beat, my first favourite game. Nostalgia - aint what it used to be but that game must have been out around the mid 80's. Manic Miner was *the* game of games (or The Hobbit if you liked adventure gaming). Killer penguins, attacking toilets, jumping through liquids and an annoyingly tinny and compulsive sound track. And all this on a 48K machine with the game loading from a tape recorder. I remember scraping into to the 20th level but never managing to complete it argh! I don't think I ever fully got to grips with the sequel Jet Set Willy either :-) but I remember walking into town and back to get it - price £2 (A month's pocket money). My wasted youth. If I hadn't saved up for over a year to buy that Spectrum (two sets of Christmas money and a birthday) I wonder if I'd have ever ended up wanting a career in computing. Blame Clive Sinclair - it's all his fault I'm here, well, maybe Alan Sugar with his Amstrad PC1512 as well. It's an amazingly similar story for most of my 30-something colleagues we were all weaned on Spectrums. That's where we started writing code. At least you could program them yourselves in BASIC. I look at all these millions of kids with Playstation type boxes for all the fantastic hardware available now they don't have the same easy access into programming that our generation did. Shame.
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