Darren Beale

Lucky to be alive

11. July 2005

Amazing. I just saw this on the BBC news site. It shows people still on the top deck of the bus that blew up on Thursday: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/uk_number_30_bus_bomb_aftermath/html/3.stm On Thursday looking at the pictures of the bus I was suprised to hear that anyone had survived. at all.

The O’s sign a Scottish Premiership midfielder.

11. July 2005

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ORIENT have pulled off a major transfer coup by persuading Livingston midfielder Craig Easton to move to Brisbane Road and reject the chance to stay in Scotland with Motherwell. Easton, 26, has made almost 250 appearances in the Scottish Premier League over the past six seasons, but was surprisingly released by Livingston at the end of [...]

Terrorists: It wont work, not here.

8. July 2005

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I’m starting to feel really angry about the bombing yesterday. It’s not like the death and misery will achieve *anything*. As a generation us Brits have grown up with constant IRA threats and a resolve to just ‘keep buggering on’, what do ‘they’ think we’ll do? Gah, anyway, I wish I’d written this. It sums it [...]

Leytonstone Blogs

8. July 2005

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Via the London Bloggers site I found a bunch of Blogs that are written by (or about) Leytonstone residents. /me *waves* Here’s the list: Alex McLintock Chronic Disease by Suzanne Zacharia Jogto Lexin On a deeper level More Thoughts About Buildings and Food My Ace Life Planarchy simiant.com

BT Yahoo muppet customer service drone

7. July 2005

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One of my clients was having problems setting up email. After tests at our end, I informed them that they might want to contact their ISP (BT) as it seemed that the outgoing email server may have been at fault. What follows is BT’s response. For the record our mail server address is pop3.exponetic.net. I should [...]

London bomb blasts

7. July 2005

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Unless you’ve been in a hole then you’ll know that a number of different explosions occured in central London around 8.50 a.m. this morning. At this stage it’s clear that there have been deaths and loads of injuries, but it does seem that the main aim was to cripple the city rather than cause maximum loss [...]

Great British food

7. July 2005

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I saw this in the Leyton Orient message boards today:

Andy has some great beer

6. July 2005

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My mate Andy has some really great beer What was it, Fosters, XXXX? *ducks*

Cheap T-Shirts

6. July 2005

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This was quick (unknown source)

London will host the 2012 Olympics

6. July 2005

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Isn’t that such a great statement. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/olympics_2012 My offices are just east of the City and a full compliment of the Red Arrows just flew past very low and LOUD with Red, White and Blue smoke streaming out of the back. This is quite a nice take on the day: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4654137.stm They’ve got a slick rail network, a [...]

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Lucky to be alive

The O’s sign a Scottish Premiership midfielder.

Terrorists: It wont work, not here.

Leytonstone Blogs

BT Yahoo muppet customer service drone

London bomb blasts

Great British food

Andy has some great beer

Cheap T-Shirts

London will host the 2012 Olympics

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