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James Thornett
Archive for July, 2007
Me and my Nokia N95

As I’m not generally known as a gadget-geek-freak it’s something of a surprise to find myself grappling with the new Nokia N95. Too much has already been written about it on the web for me to bother repeating all those tales of woe on short battery life, patchy GPS receivers and continual N95/iPhone debates. In [...]

Own the club, pick the team, upset the fans.

Myfootballclub.com is one of those perfectly simple yet so fabulously interesting ideas that you just can’t understand why you didn’t think of it yourself. 50,000 people club together, put in a few quid, buy the controlling interest in a football club, then make joint, democratic decisions on how the team is run. To quote: 50,000 [...]