Archives: September, 2005

This is a good radio joke played by Tim Shaw on some unsuspecting chap at 03:00 am one morning. Its quite amazing how polite the fellow remains for most of the stunt…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told France’s Finance Minister Thierry Breton the United States has “lost control” of its budget deficit, the French minister said Saturday.
 
“‘We have lost control,’ that was his expression,” Breton told reporters after a bilateral meeting with Greenspan.
 
“The United States has lost control of their budget at [...]

So it looks like Blair’s Police State has arrived under the guise of the war or terror? Or maybe another viewpoint (rather less dramatic) is that the Metropolitan Police force make the Keystone Cops look like a well-oiled machine when it comes to fighting the war on terror. However before you smugly whistle under your [...]

As Hurricane Rita approaches the gulf of Mexico I can’t help but remember a set of predictions I heard a few years ago from a spiritualist. That the world would be beset by a new enemy within our midst and man would view man with suspicion, that then America would be tested and brought [...]

CURRENT MOONmoon phase

Here is a useful tool for any lycanthrope wishing to organise their social life around their nocturnal rampages. It always shows the current phase of the moon, based on the internal clock on your computer. A big improvement on those tiny blobs you get in the corners of desktop diary entries.
 
 

Today is the 23rd anniversary of that most pervasive and irritating internet communication protocol of the emoticon or in its popular parlance, the smiley. Favoured form of communication amongst teenage girls and Johnny come lately internet users that some describe as the only way to convey emotion in written electronic communication but has come to [...]

Now I do realize that some restaurants are just not supposed to be gastronomic Meccas but cater to that simple straightforward requirement that you sometimes have for something more utilitarian and affordable. Affordable is on my agenda these days (very much so) so enticed by the offer of a buy-one-get-one-free offer at the new TGI [...]

Even the Saudis are pointing out that the current oil shortage is due to refining capacity issues :
Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, has given assurances that it will take steps to alleviate any crude oil shortages.
 
However, Saudi Crown Prince Sultan has said increasing demand and a shortage in refining capacity are the real [...]

Sometime we bemoan the antics of our single female friends, like the infamous smug-marrieds of Bridget Jones fame but this eloquent rant puts it into perspective so well…
How to get/not get yourself a man

At last after an 18 year wait, England has finally won the Ashes. Thought I’d never live to see the day.