Monthly Archives: January 2006

Tony’s Tea

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Just came across this interesting snippet on Kablenet on Tony Blair’s webcast:

Tony Blair wants to follow up on his ‘day in the life’ website broadcast with similar online projects despite criticism that the video amounts to a propaganda exercise.

The video, released on the Number 10 website at the beginning of January 2006, was put together by an in-house production team which followed the Blair around “for some days”, a spokesperson for the prime minister told Government Computing News.

The slick three and a half minute film is claimed to offer the public an insight into the prime minister’s daily routine, but opposition MPs have criticised Blair for using a government website for issuing a political statement.

Among the clips, the video shows Blair holding a mug of tea as he addresses reporters, standing next to various world leaders and listening to home secretary Charles Clarke during a Cabinet meeting.

God or golf?

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A brain teasing about the maths of ‘random clumping’ from Bob Porter:

“Jesus and Moses were playing golf. At the first hole Moses hit a long drive to within a few yards of the green. Jesus sliced into the woods where the ball hit a tree and headed for the water. Just before it hit the water, a frog lept from a lily pad bounced the ball into the air where a hawk grabbed it, and flew to the green where the hawk dropped it and a gopher ran up and pushed it in the hole for a hole in one. Moses turned to Jesus and said: “Are you going to fool around or are we going to play golf?” (Was it God or random clumping?)