admin | October 27, 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7680964.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7689991.stm Why Swaziland? Not really seen as the best example of democracy in Africa itself… http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7692370.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/28/zimbabwe-south-africa-mugabe-tsvangirai Now they want another summit, another round of talks. Leaders flying all over the place, staying in plush hotels, eating plush meals whilst there are things to be taken care of back home. Very simple, every ministry [...]
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admin | October 22, 2008
‘Unbreakable’ encryption unveiled. Quantum cryptography is inherently unbreakable. Perfect secrecy has come a step closer with the launch of the world’s first computer network protected by unbreakable quantum encryption at a scientific conference in Vienna says http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7661311.stm. Yeah right! Heard it before? There are a few companies whose bank balances have been nicely reduced by [...]
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admin | October 21, 2008
Fom here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7666493.stm to here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7681468.stm and I am hating to say I told you so. This is like a Xmas pantomime with the giant Bob not willing to wait for hesitant, indecisive Tsva as he needs to take control of the Kingdom. A playground without leadership for too long time could go to the [...]
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admin | October 20, 2008
Ford Motor Company is introducing an innovative new technology – called MyKey – designed to help parents encourage their teenagers to drive safer, use fuel more efficiently and increase safety-belt usage. How about another key for the idiot parents? In fact since the maximum limit in this country is 70mph, how about not selling cars [...]
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admin | October 17, 2008
….and be counted. Doesn’t it make you feel good when someone stands up against wrong and forces some action? It is especially satisfying when it is standing up to the ‘authorities’ who keep trying to tell us what to do and how to live. You go, guy. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7675359.stm Original post blogged on b2evolution.
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admin | October 12, 2008
Apparently there are some bars offering free drinks to women. Where? Not in Birmingham or Wolverhampton. We, Midlanders, including the female of the species, know how to wet our throats and so the local watering holes do not need to make desperate attempts to get into their establishments . Seriously, though, it was this quote [...]
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admin | October 9, 2008
Zimbabwe can’t keep out of the news, can it? See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7660569.stm. I tried explaining to my nine and thirteen year old what 231,000,000% inflation means in real life. Here is where I started. If you have £230 million today, in a year it will buy the same items you can buy with today with $1! [...]
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admin | October 9, 2008
‘A nation of bankers’ is what the Metro headline said. I could not help and think it should have said something completely. Here we are the people who paid to keep them lot in gravy for years and when the stuff hits the fan, guess which muggings have to pay again to safeguard the money [...]
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admin | October 3, 2008
Not sure if I picked this up from somewhere or whether I made it up myself, but for sometime I have been saying that ‘you can tell the level of comfort in a society by the headlines of its independent press’. A great example of this is the ‘falling’ profits at M&S. Is that the [...]
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admin | October 2, 2008
This is going to be short and sweet. Now we are going to blame colonialism for the spread of AIDS – see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7646255.stm? Nice, another excuse not to own up and accept that we are sometimes to blame for our predicament. How did colonialism come into this? From other areas of the world we know [...]
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