Great weekend for football. West Ham had an impressive win over the green-faced Spurs and Henry consolidated my top spot of the Fantasy League I do. Looking forward to the FA Cup next weekend where hopefully West Ham will score a goal and Liverpool wont score any.

I see that Tom Cruise has been publicly mocked by internet bloggers. Well I think I’m the only person who actually rates the guy. Sod his strange religious convictions, I think he’s a good actor. But I know I’m in the minority.

Tonight on Channel 4 (23:05). Jon Snow reports about Iraq: The Hidden Story. he’ll compare TV footage with actual footage to see what kind of message the media is sending.

I’ve been busy tracing my family history using Ancestry.co.uk. Seems that my line goes right back to West Ham, Stepney and Tower Hamlets since 1861, where I traced my earliest ancestor. Her name was Eliza and she was born in Poplar (then Middlesex, now Newham or Tower Hamlets in London) in 1823. She lived with her son, two nieces, her sister and a male servant. I haven’t traced the husband so he was either dead or working overseas at that time. But servants, eh? I’ll have to look into this further.

My great great grandmother, Harriet, ran an oil and colorman shop in West Ham during 1881. An oil & colorman shop is a paint and hardware shop. Her husband William was a gas fitter and they had 5 kids. Try checking your own family tree out.

Today’s Friday afternoon time waster is the Avocadolite Farm Zookeeper-style Game. This is a slight variation though as you have to change the background colour of all the tiles before you can move on to the next stage. Use those bombs if you get a bit stuck for time. I managed a score of 11775 but it took me quite a few goes to get the hang of this one.

The Guardians list of the top 10 Sci-Fi movies of all time. I agree with most of them but I would have added Return of the Jedi to the first two movies in the series (although everyone normally disagrees with me on this). I’d also swap out Solaris and put in Starship Troopers (the best film ever).

Some music for the weekend? Download Ben Mynott’s latest chill out and deep house mix from his website www.fluidnation.com. There’s some nice stuff on there including an old Crazy Penis tune which I’m selling on eBay at the moment.

A video of a ship colliding with a bridge. I’d love to know the backstory behind this carnage.

Oh, and the campest video ever: Village People - Sex Over the Phone. Show your children this if they ask about the 80’s.

Due to my recent success at the bookies I’ve decide to look at a few of the World Cup group stage odds and see if anything catches my eye. The World Cup can throw up some strange results so there’s not too much harm in placing a few outside bets. Here are a few I’ve chosen from Ladbrokes.com:

Germany vs Costa Rica is a 9-1 away win.
England vs Trinidad is a 10-1 away win.
Brazil vs Australia is a 10-1 away win.
Brazil vs Japan is a 11-1 away win.

I looked at WilliamHill.co.uk and BlueSq.com who only gave odds on matches up to the 14th of June. Don’t they want me to bet? BetFred.com wouldn’t give me any match odds at all. They did have a list of leading Goal Scorers though with Luca Toni at 16-1 and Cisse at 40-1. Hmm, could be worth a punt.

And who will be the eventual winners? Well Brazil or Germany are favourites but maybe France still has a little steam left in them or Italy perhaps? Japan are 200-1 which is worth 50p!

Really enjoyed last night’s double edition of the season two opener of Lost. It seems like they’ve taken onboard all the comments about ‘nothing actually ever happening’ and fit more into those two episodes than half of last season. It helped that they concentrated on only a few of the characters rather than the whole posse. The first two minutes were especially great, with the Scottish Jesus guy in his perfect home. Looks like I’ll be watching the rest of this series as well.

Bored? Then watch the Pilot Episode of The Mysterious Cities of Gold. YouTube looks like it has all the other episodes on there too! And C is For Cookie is on YouTube too, where Sesame Street meets V for Vendetta.

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Oh, and my friend Tony is raising money for the BHF during the London to Brighton bike ride. You can sponsor him here if you wish. If he raises enough money he will go as his alter ego Flash Rock!

Yes! A nice £200 will be coming my way due to Graeme Dott’s triumphant win over Pter Ebdon. He was 15-7 in front at one point with only 18 needed to win so I thought the money was in the bag. But alas there was a huge fightback from Ebdon that went on till 12:52AM, which included the longest frame ever at the Crucible (74 minutes).

My next bet? Well I’m thinking of putting a few quid on a longshot for the FA Cup. Currently I’m thinking West Ham 2 - 1 Liverpool with Reo-Coker first scorer. If I can get over 40-1 I’ll put a fiver on that too!

The sun came out so I went down the beach

Then I checked out the new improved library in the North Lanes

New developments were springing up everywhere

Kensington Gardens saw some rain

And overnight some cheeky scally has painted the girl’s school phallic column a nice shade of pink, with a purple top

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