You may have seen some ads on the TV about some new animated Dr Who episodes , so intrigued I went and had a look. To my surprise they are pretty good and star Richard E Grant as the voice of the good Doctor, who I might suggest would make an excellent choice as the ever popular Time Lord when the BBC start a new series. Interestingly the episodes have been animated by Cosgrove Hall of Dangermouse fame using Flash; nice to see someone's found a use for Flash at last.

Australia 17 - England 20

Like many Englishmen I woke this morning wondering if yesterday was a cruel dream, after all my hopes have been dashed too many times by England failing to deliver the goods on the big occasion. However after 100 minutes of nerve shredding action, good lord I was a basket case during extra time, we saw an Englishman raising aloft a World Cup. But before we return to our daily routine I have a few thoughts. My hope is that the media don't forget that it was a team effort, not as some of the Sundays would have us believe, all down to a certain Mr Wilkinson. You can't setup a drop goal pocket on your own. Earls Court, London SW5 won't be the same for some time. John Howard's face during the award ceremony was a picture; it was worth watch just for that. Handing over the cup to Martin Johnson must have been the hardest thing he ever had to do. Politely remind every Australian you meet what the score was. It's only fitting after the partisan press coverage in the Antipodean press. Anyone have something for nerves? All we need now if for the England football team to do the same...but a part of me thinks that anyone reading this probably won't see it.

One of the great things about working for a company that makes game consoles as well as has it's own games development studio is that despite the usual day to day activities the company is keen for you to play these games and subsequently tell everyone else about them. Monday for example was games day in the atrium. The XBox crowd had setup a load of consoles and large plasma screens and let us play all the latest titles. There was even a prize (guess what it was) to the person had the quickest lap time in Project Gotham Racing 2 around the streets of Edinburgh. Other notables included Top Spin a rather excellent tennis game and Crimson Skies: The High Road to Revenge a sort of odd-looking-planes-meets-Indiana-Jones adventure game, difficult to explain unless you see it. All of these are also XBox Live! enabled, which against all expectations has passed the half million subscriber mark. Maybe more companies should adopt this kind of practice...rather than, dare I say it, treating them like disposable commodities.

I read this morning that some scientists have proved Kylie Minogue has the perfect backside, something to do with waist to thigh ratios or somesuch. I'm sorry but I could have told them she has perfectly peachy cheeks without having to do any research. Would have been a brilliant final year project though...

Still being in a I've-got-a new-car-kinda-mood (even though it's three years old) I've been like a moth to a flickering 40 watt bulb about anything to do with BMW 'M' cars. As if on cue this months TopGear Magazine does a comparison of all 20 cars produced by BMW's M Division. Yes for the pedants out there's a few that were missing but none of them were for the UK market...so ner! The M Coupe came a very credible 4th and shared the top spots with some very exulted company. However I can’t say I agree with the final placing; here’s why. 3rd. The current M3 Coupe. Very nice car but rather too ubiquitous for my taste and I'm not sure the ‘bling bling’ image is for me either. 2nd. The outgoing M5. With a 400bhp V8 it’s the daddy. If God drove a saloon car, I think it would be one of these. 1st. The new M3 CSL. Er...if you have a spare £60K to drop on a track toy then maybe. It's not a real world car by any stretch of the imagination and in reality no quicker than a standard M3 on normal roads. Cardboard boot floor anyone? My totally biased opinion would put the M5 first and the M Coupe second.

In an interview this morning Jack 'Incoherent Sentence' Straw said that being 'anti American' is currently fashionable, especially in light of George 'Blah Blah' Bush's imminent state visit to the UK. What Mr Straw fails to understand is that most people make the distinction between America and George Bush, so when he sees protestors waving placards and jumping out in front of Dubya's limo he should remember they are more than likely being 'anti Bush' not 'anti American'. Also he tried to imply that the visit is non polictical, as it's a 'state' visit at the behest of the Royals. What he forgot to mention was that Buckingham Palace would never invite anyone without permission from the Foreign Office and I can't be the only one who can hardly see Lizzy Windsor saying, 'Lets invite that nice Mr Bush, he's always an interesting conversationalist'...

Does anyone remember the John Woo film 'Face Off' with Nicholas Cage and John Travolta? The main premise of the film was that the goodie and the badie had a face transplant with each other and all manner of hilarious japes ensued. Well apparently this isn't so far fetched after all.

It didn't take long. Despite an injunction, denials and telling us the guy making the accusations is 'a bit of a looney', the story (I call it a story as it ain't really news) of what Prince Charles may or may not have done is now all over the Internet. In our interconnected era The House of Windsor, not know for it's intelligence, should have realised that an injunction on any kind of Royal scandal is about as water tight as a bath sponge. My buddy Kieron send me the link so I can't vouch for it's quality, but lord only knows where he finds this stuff.

The BBC’s film review programme ‘Film 2003’ has published it’s list of the top ten ‘Worst Films Ever’ on it’s web site as voted for by the great British cinema going public. The number one stinker is…? Titanic. Whilst it’s place on the list is well deserved and as one voter commented, "Shows that the Hollywood glitterati couldn't find their own behinds with both hands, a flashlight and a copy of Gray’s Anatomy", I reckon the fourth placed Vanilla Sky should sit, like the shining turd it is, atop this collection of all that is wrong with Hollywood. It almost restores my faith in my fellow citizens.

With Leeds United announcing it’s annual loss approaching the £50 million mark a quick look through Deloitte and Touche’s Annual Review of Football Finance shows they are not unique in having bank accounts written largely in red ink. The top ten most indebted clubs look like this: 1. Fulham £107.96m 2. Leeds United £78m 3. Middlesbrough £53.6m 4. Manchester City £50m 5. Arsenal £45.8m 6. Newcastle United £43m 7. Bolton Wanderers £33.5m 8. Everton £27.6m 9. Liverpool £20.5m 10. Southampton £20.2m Between them the teams in the Premiership owe a trouser wetting £589 million and it looks like the banks are getting itchy, but despite their huge debts it’ll probably be either be one or two of the teams in the lower divisions who are currently in administration or one north of the border who go bust first.