It’s been a long time since I ‘blogged in anger’, months in fact. I’ve spent much of the last few months posting on the sister forum (Australian Opinion) mostly wrecking and rebuilding it. However I miss the old blog site where I can just say whatever the hell I like without having to take into … More Anyone still out there… ??
Billions again wiped off the financial markets. The biggest drop in total sharemarket value in decades. Financial ‘experts’ all round the world perplexed and unsure what’s going on. Sound familiar? Maybe it’s ‘Wall Street 1929’ all over again! It’s nearly time to stock the cupboards, lock the doors and pass the ammo!
We learned this morning of the death of Wendy Richards who finally succumbed to breast cancer after a long struggle, she was 65. Wendy was a favourite on the small screen for in Britain for many, many years both as a ‘blonde bombshell’ Miss Brahms in the classic series “Are You Being Served”, and as … More Vale Wendy Richards
Some statistics have been released which, if correct, maye you wonder what’s happening over in ‘dear old blighty’. The figures released imply that 1 in 9 people living in Britain were born ‘overseas’. Globalisation, cheap travel, easy migration and wide differences in living standards have encouraged people to move in ever greater numbers from place … More What does it mean to be "British"?
The concept of ‘cloud computing’ had me very confused for a while, I really had no clue what these buzz words actually meant., or what benefit it would give me. Eventually ‘daylight dawned’ and I not only understood what the pundits meant, I discovered that I’d actually been using it for some time! 🙂 At … More Cloud Computing – getting closer!
You really have to ask yourself if there is something to the continuing complaints of Mohamed al Fayed (the owner of Harrod’s) that the ‘powers-that-be’ (including Secret Service, the Royal Family, and the police) in the UK are conducting a conspiracy intended to ruin him… in other words… people are out to get him… and have … More Mohamed al Fayed – a real reason for complaint?
The fires are not yet out… the death toll not finalised… and Melbourne suffers another blow as projections of some of the long term issues become clearer. This time the problem is water supply. Rainfall in the catchment area for Melbourne is already at its lowest on record, and the dams are currently only at … More From bad to worse.
The level of bizarre behaviour of institutions in the UK is getting out of hand. Soon they’ll be on a par with the lunatics in the USA. Current in the list of oddities is the case of two grandparents who were told that they were too old to look after their grandchildren… and were then … More Insanity in the UK.
I must have fallen out of the habit of daily blogging suring the ‘enforced’ break over the holidays. Yesterday for example, the site hardly entered my thoughts except at the beginning of the day when I realised I had no time to cough let alone write. Yet despite having my little netbook at hand all … More So much for that
The death toll currently still stands at 181 but there are areas yet to be accessed by police and there are known dead waiting to be moved and counted amongst those lost. The end total is still estimated at ‘300’ but it will be some time before anything like a final ‘exact official figure’ can … More Death toll etc.
