Dubai 10K
Here's two pictures from the 10K race I ran in January. Martin and I ran together, and completed the race in a respectable 52:26. I also managed to raise AED 3260.25 for Medicins Sans Frontieres, which will go their Emergency Relief Fund. The money will support their emergency work in the areas hit by the tsunami in December as well as other areas like Darfur.

A very special thank-you to everyone who contributed to my fundraising.

Tennis
While watching the Henman-Rusedski game on Tuesday night at the Dubai Tennis Championships, I was shocked by the behavior of some members of the crowd. I'm not talking about the usual annoyances of mobile phones and hecklers, for what I witnessed was a lot more cruel.

There was an overweight ball boy about eight years old who was working on one of the court's baselines. On a number of occasions, when he ran to collect a stray ball from the middle of the court, the crowd heckled him with comments like "come on, fatty!", "run faster!" or just laughed at him. I cannot imagine how humiliated that boy must have felt, or what his parents must have felt if they were in the crowd.

Shame on all of you. This was a nervous young boy, standing next to his tennis heroes in front of 3,000 people, and none of you stopped to think about how you must have made him feel. I guess none of you have children his age or remember what it was like to be his age.

On behalf of the little boy who couldn't defend himself last night against the people heckling him, I wanted to tell you that what you did was incredibly cruel, and you should all be ashamed of yourselves.

Public toilets, Ha Ha Road and the right to drive geese through Dulwich

Forty reasons why London beats Paris as a potential Olympic venue. My favourite reason, #18:
"At Holland & Holland, Bruton Street, W1, Londoners can pop in to buy bespoke guns. These are useful for murdering bespoke animals and continental Europeans. If it were to come to that."

The worst website in the world
I think I found it. The worst-designed website in history. Between the crap music, the intro that would induce epilepsy in small children, and the horrible photo on the right that keeps moving, I cannot hate this site enough. I hate them for making this website.

For anyone who clicks on the link, I'm sorry.

Bastards.