Tour de France

[vin_petrol]

When I started work at what was Press Association New Media in 2000, the manager of the programmers said something like "one thing about working here - you'll end up learning lots about sports you hate."
Now, I don't particularly hate cycle racing (that honour I reserve for golf), but I would rather use those braincells for something else. I now know several thousand times more about the Tour de France than I did a week ago, when all I probably knew was "some blokes race around France on bicycles, and there are drugs scandals. Ooh, and someone gets to wear a yellow jersey - I think it's the leader."
Anyway, the code and docs are written. I'm rolling it out live tomorrow and then going on holiday. I come back after the event has started, just possibly to the odd error email or two.
And yes, I have listened to the Kraftwerk song whilst writing Tour de France code! :-)

Comments

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

The album its from is excellent.
Have fun whilst you're away and hope there is no drama and what have you and hopefully we will have lunch on your return and my Mum's return to Jersey.

[myz-lilith.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling. In spte of my strenuous attempts to remain in blissful ignorance, I know way more than I ever wished to about golf (which amounted to "They invented it in Scotland cos they needed a sport in which it didn't matter when occasional mountains and wandering herds of deer got in the way")

[blondelass.livejournal.com]

But the Tour de France is rather impressive - 3,000 miles in 20 days with about 2 days rest in between and one of the stages goes up a mountain which even a coach struggles to get up.