One of these things is (kinda) like the other thing…

Channel 9′s cricket intro:

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Eskimo Joe’s “Foreign Land”:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7GFLLQbcF8]

Every time I hear “Foreign Land”, which is far more often than I would like to (around no times being the optimum number of times), I think of Richie Benaud.

I miss Richie Benaud.

Two for one

I love this story; it combines two of my favourite things – cricket and Obama.

Thanks, Guardian.

Oh, and they put a pun in the headline.  A pun!

New theme

I’ve become slightly addicted to widgets.  My commitment to a clean desktop is at risk of being compromised by this, so I went in search of widgets that would go in other places.  Cricinfo offers a number of options, so I added their “live score” widget to this blog.  Unfortunately, the default is to add it as a post, so I tried experiementing with making it a blog-widget.  This worked, but the right-hand side of the score box was cut off due to the restricted column width of the old theme.

What to do?

As much as I liked the black-ness of the old theme, I started browsing around WordPress for an off-the-rack theme that would allow me to keep my custom header, but also give the Cricinfo widget room to breathe.  This is the result.

As I have a couple of weeks of holiday at my disposal, I am thinking of playing around with CSS to see if I learn anything.  In the meantime – and, given my penchant for procrastination, this could be a long time – this is the new look.  It’s by no means perfect, but it will do for now.

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