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It seems to be an odd year in men’s tennis this year. First Tomas Johansen won the Australian Open and now Albert Costa wins the French. Agassi, Sampras, Hewitt, Guga - none of them quite seem to be able to hold it together at the Opens this year. Maybe we can expect some surprises at Wimbledon this year. Ivanisavic won't be there (shoulder op) and even if Costa were there I don't see him doing it on grass but maybe Roddick or Federer? Who knows - Henman might even get somewhere (he's currently ranked 6 in the world). At least all seems normal in the women’s game although it'll be a shame if Hingis has to retire - I predict another all Williams final with Venus just edging in this time.

I was glad to see Costa win it though because he's a good guy. In his semi with Corretja they were playing for a vital point in the fourth set - if Costa won it it would be match point to him, if Corretja won it it would have been break point to him. Corretja hit a very long shot which Costa couldn't reach. The line judge called it out. Before the umpire could even think about getting out of the chair to examine the mark (on clay courts you can see where the ball landed normally) Costa overruled, pointing to the mark. It might have been overruled anyway but it might not have been. He went on to win the match (obviously) and it's nice to see a good guy getting rewarded.

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Woo hoo! I have completely forgiven all the guys for watching football - they've put the Stella Artois (warm-up tournament for Wimbledon) on for the afternoon! There’s no actual play atm (rain) so it's just the Henman/Hewitt final from last year. I guess they must have just not known about the French on Eurosport last week. And I've done two more bits of handover stuff.

And the spellchecker suggests He-man for Henman! MS are strange.

New project

I've decided that I need to have a new web project now that I've got my pages looking like I want with CSS and stuff (although when S2 finally makes it that'll need more fiddling - I haven't decided how to do the comments threading yet). So what I've decided to do is write some code which takes the listings pages of daily info as input and outputs something which is reasonable size for the palm so that I can have them as channels on Avantgo without them taking a million years to load and having forms you can't use on the page and stuff. It should be a chance to learn a new language as well - php maybe, or even perl script. So can anyone recommend me references for those? Or another language I should try doing it in?