Friday, October 31, 2003

Sharpe's Eagle & Shapre's Gold

Recently finished these two books: -

In Sharpe's Eagle events centre around the battle of talavera. At the start of the book a standard of the ficticious "South Essex" is taken by the French, and a bit of blamemongering goes on and Sharpe is blamed (of course Wellesley doesn't fall for this, but the blame mongers have high political positions back in England). Sharpe tries to recover the regiment's honour by capturing a French Eagle.

In Sharpe's Gold, the British Army are short of funds and withdrawal is imminent. Sharpe's mission is to "recover" some Spanish Gold from behind the French lines. It brings Sharpe into contact with a group of Guerilla(sp?) fighters. Very well written - gripping to the end.

An update on my goproblems

Here is a list of the go problems I've submitted: -
Problem 3009 - rated as difficulty 3d
Problem 3007 - rated as difficulty 5k
Problem 1592 - rated as difficulty 4k

Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Deadline

With a deadline looming in the office,I decided to search for "deadline" and see what it's etymology might be ... this site was quite helpful word origins.

My first search in google brought up lots of butterfly collecting websites I searched for entimology - doh!