Manchester United 2 – 1 Portsmouth

This was a typically tough FA Cup game with Portsmouth defending hard, Sol Cambell at the back was solid for almost the entire game, wouldn’t be suprised to see him back in the England team any time soon.

For United though it was a game with a lot of chances that should have been. First Vidic scored a wonderfully powerful header from a corner, jumping above Cambell and heading in just for Mendez to clear the ball from behind the line. The linesman and the ref missed it and the goal didn’t count.

Later in the game a super volleyed goal by Larsson was rules out for offside when the reply showed he was onside. So it was left to Rooney to come on as a sub and score twice to seal the win.

The first a direct pass from Carrick straight throught the middle set up Giggs to square a pass across the box for a simple Rooney tap in.

Then the special Rooney back on form just in time to see us through to the end of the season scored a wonder goal that has seen him compared even more to the legend of Cantona. A sweat chip from the edge of the area sailed over the helpless James in the Portsmouth goal and into the top corner of the net with pin point precision.

A lucky break at the other end then got a goal back for Portsmouth but it was too late for them and United held on for a well deserved win, and a wait for Mondays draw to find out who we will face in the next round.

FA Cup Fourth Round
	2-1
Rooney 77, 83		Kanu 87

New SkyScrapers and Trams for Birmingham, UK

Work has started on two new sky scrapers next to Snow Hill Train/Tram station in Birmingham city centre. This work also includes a new side entrance to the station opposite the Police station. The work will then link into the expansion of the tram to run through Birmingham city centre past New Street Station all the way down Broad Street to Five Ways.

Its an exciting development and I pass it every day on my way to work. Its just a pile of mud and some Concrete stairs at the moment but can’t wait to see it when its finished.

This picture shows the four planned buildings at the bottom of the image. The two squares will be office blocks, the other two rounder plots will be the two sky scrapers, one hotel, one residential.

In the top left is St Pauls cathedral, which will get a new gardened area infront of it making it a really nice pedestrian area. At the moment the giant roundabout that is there isn’t great. As you can see above the roundabout is going and the roads will be redesigned, much neater and more pedestrian spaces.

This is a neat model showing the buildings in front of Snow Hill station. They look fantastic.

Check out this picture for a look at what they will really look like. I will really enjoy watching these being built and think Birmingham city centre will look amazing when its done.

The extension to the tram line will also start development soon. Not sure when but the building of these sky scrapers will more than likely take into account the tram extension.

I think if you look at the top image the white extension to the bridge is where the new tram line will run, between the sky scrapers and the station and behind the office blocks, then I think it will join the road near the front of the station.

The route plan from there means the trams will run down Corporation street, then upto Victoria Square and down Broad street to Five Ways.

Below is a picture of the new trams the extension will use, they look pretty nice. Won’t be riding on them till at least 2010 though so hope i’m still around here then to catch a ride.

Google Calendar Sync www.GooSync.com

I have just finished working on the latest addition to the GooSync service. GooSync is a Google Calendar to mobile device sync service. It’s a really good service if you want to get your Google Calendars onto your mobile and it’s free.

Recently, so that they can pay my extorsionate wages, GooSync have released a subscription service for advanced users. This subscription service now includes the ability to synchronise any number of multiple Google Calendars.

Multiple calendars are synchronised to your mobile device using tags, such as “[Matt] My Meeting”, that are appended to your event subject line. This way on your mobile device you can tell the different calendars apart.

Using tags allows the multi-calendar sync to support every device that we sync to, mobile phones, PDA, etc.

I won’t tell you what I’m working on next but keep your eye on www.GooSync.com and maybe your find out soon.

Whats on TV?

A while ago I was looking around online for a decent TV Guide. Because i’m too cheap to buy one, and the guide on my freeview box shows whats on next not all day. So i wanted an online TV Guide thats shows whats on freeview and nothing else. And I got lucky when I found TVGuide.co.uk a free online guide.

You can choose exactly what channels to view from a huge list and whats on is displayed in a real easy to view channel/time grid. Its brilliant so I just wanted to recommend it.

Hello blog!

This is my first post on my new WordPress.com blog. In fact apart from a really simple blog I set up on my personal homepage for a while this is my first official blog ever! I don’t know what I’m going to write on here yet but I’m sure it will be fascinating. I guess the first thing could be to write a review of WordPress. Its great! Right, what next?