Dr Alan Howard

at last some decent snow and temps of -8.2 C in Brinkworth:

The Market Oracle, the influential Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting online publication, has integrated an analysis of US recent economic history with the song “American Pie” , citing my book extensively.

Tom Watson’s failure to get down in three from the centre of the 18th fairway to win his 6th Open Golf Championship today at the age of 59 must rank as one of sport’s greatest tragedies. I remember his last Open victoryin 1983 when Peter Allis described Watson’s 2-iron approach to the centre of the [...]

No surprise that Norway were run away winners on Saturday night and I would have liked Azerbaijan and the UK to have been 2nd and 3rd. The model correctly predicted the winning entry but, overall, there was a less strong correlation (r2 value 0.46 compared to 0.75 – 0.85) than in previous years between predicted placing and actual ranking. [...]

The Ordnance Survey has featured my “Sky Cam” implementation of their OpenSpace API.
On my webpage you can click on a map marker to view the latest skycam image. The map is created using the Ordnance Survey OpenSpace API including the loadurl AJAX method. Zoom in on the map and you’ll see it’s a real Ordnance [...]

I have just finished transcribing an interview with Don McLean that I recorded last week and which is mainly based on questions his fans submitted to his official website. The interview is available here and contains something of interest for most fans and casual readers including insights into Don’s favourite food and a surprising interpretation [...]

I was interviewed live on BBC Radio Berkshire this morning following an unexpected request to comment on the news that Graham Norton was replacing Terry Wogan as presenter of British television’s coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest. They were still determined to explore the myth that the British were hard done by in this year’s [...]

Don McLean speaks about the biography in a newspaper article and book review by Emmet Meara.
Don said he decided to publish the book, “to counter the urban myths about me, and to get the full story out before someone else does.”

Don McLean is doing a book signing at the Owl and Turtle Bookshop in Camden, Maine on August 3rd 2007.
Even if you can’t attend an author event, the book store will do their best to ensure that you receive a signed title.
For further details visit:
http://www.owlandturtle.com/events.html