OUT OF OFFICE September 29, 2010 FLASHDANCE COMES TO THE STAGE It’s all about legwarmers, leotards and doing the splits to Giorgio Moroder’s What a Feeling at the Shaftsbury Theatre, where Flashdance, the 80s cinematic cheesefest about a female welder who dreams of making it to ballet school, is opening in stage musical form. Victoria Hamilton-Barritt stars as leotard-sporting, high-kicking Alex, [...]
There is nowhere to hide: the Gamepocalypse is nigh September 29, 2010 IT MIGHT seem unlikely that the same technology that lets you blow up zombies in an ultra-realistic fashion will also one day help send astronauts to Mars. But that is precisely graphics company NVIDIA’s line of work. The California-based firm manufactures 3D graphics chips both for games companies and the Russian federal space agency in [...]
Don’t let your digits freeze for an iPhone September 29, 2010 This cold weather is a curse for the mobile professional. When you’re constantly coming in from the cold, every office seems like a sauna. It’s worse if you cycle everywhere. Take it from me, standing in a puddle of your own sweat in reception doesn’t inspire confidence. Freshmax Shirts claims its cotton shirts have solved [...]
GADGETS | REVIEWS September 29, 2010 OF THE THREE new members of the iPod family, the Nano is the most radically rethought. If stripped-down is the Apple philosophy, then the new Nano takes this to its logical conclusion. Gone is the iconic click wheel that helped bring MP3 players to the mass market. Instead it uses Apple’s now almost obligatory multi-touch [...]
Wind to decide whether course proves a breeze September 29, 2010 MARTIN KAYMER’S RIGHT-HAND MAN THEY might not have agreed at the time, but the treacherous conditions at the Tour Championship at East Lake last weekend might have actually done the Americans a favour as they look to defend their Ryder Cup honour this weekend. With the Dunhill Links Championship coming up at St Andrews next [...]
THROUGH THE KEY HOLES September 29, 2010 HOLE 1 HOLE one is key on any course – not least because it’s vital you get off to a solid start. This is a dogleg right to left, but to clear the bunkers on the left it’s a 295-yard carry, so the safe option is to keep right for a better shot onto the [...]
Monty’s men ready to reclaim Ryder Cup September 29, 2010 ANTICIPATION for golf’s biennial battle has never been higher on this side of the Atlantic. After a hugely successful year for European golfers, expectation is also sky-high and it’s no surprise that Team Europe are listed as 4/6 favourites on Betdaq. Indeed, Paddy Power have already paid out on a European victory before a ball [...]
The Ryder Cup is special, it’s in the blood September 29, 2010 OUR MAN AT CELTIC MANOR WINNING the Ryder Cup as captain at the Belfry in 2002 was quite simply the best feeling I have ever experienced on a golf course. Nothing comes close. I didn’t think anything could top sinking the winning putt to win it as a player in 1985, but taking the trophy [...]
Van der Vaart relief after 10-man Spurs win thriller September 29, 2010 TOTTENHAM (4) vs FC TWENTE (1) TOTTENHAM tasted Champions League victory at White Hart Lane for the first time, but only after a helter-skelter night of extreme drama typified by Rafael van der Vaart missing a penalty, scoring a goal and then being sent off. Forward Roman Pavlyuchenko was more successful from the spot, twice [...]
Butt retracts England fixing claims, but doesn’t say sorry September 29, 2010 PAKISTAN Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt last night officially retracted his allegation that England players accepted “enormous amounts of money” to throw a match. Butt spent yesterday in talks with the England and Wales Cricket Board, which had threatened to launch legal action against him unless he made a “full and unreserved apology”. That apology [...]
