Barnsley 1, Chelsea 0 … after winning at Anfield it almost couldn’t get any better. Heroic performance all round, etc. I’m all for giving the Tykes the Cup now. It can only be downhill from here. You just know they’ll never be able to get it up for Cardiff or Bristol Rovers in the semis and it will all end in tears. My money’s on ‘Arry’s Pompey.

Sun sports new blog

Posted: February 26, 2008 in Bermuda, football, internet, media

You read it here first … the Bermuda Sun has launched a fine new sports blog, TalkSport. Sports writer James Whittaker told me: “There seems to be a real appetite for talking about sports in Bermuda right now. There’s already a ton of blogs for news junkies and we wanted to launch a similar kind of forum for sports fans. As well as blogs from our writers we hope to include stuff from our columnists like Lionel Cann and Fred Barritt and guest bloggers such as yourself and Nick Jones.”

Good luck, lads – and welcome to the Bermuda blogosphere!

Apple boosts laptop range

Posted: February 26, 2008 in Uncategorized

If you held off on buying a new MacBook or MacBook Pro, pat yourself on the back. Apple just announced that it is beefing up the processing power on all its laptops. The Pro line is also getting Apple’s Multi-Touch technology debuted in the MacAir. According to Apple, MacBook Pro is now available with Intel Core 2 Duo (Penryn) processors that are built using a 45-nanometer technology. The processors run at up to 2.6GHz, and the laptops come with up to 6MB of cache memory, 4GB of RAM, and whopping new hard drives with up to 250GB of storage space. MacBook Pros start at US$1,999 with MacBooks (120GB drives) stating at US$1,099. 

And just in case you missed it, Apple has dropped the price of iPod Shuffles to $49 and introduced a new 2GB model for $69 – $10 less than the old 1 GB. And if you scoot over to Amazon and order a 32GB iPod Touch, they’ll throw a 1GB shuffle in for free.