My new best friend

Somebody on flickr has listed me as a contact. This is usually a good thing because they like your photo’s or something about your profile. And it’s generally a good thing to reciprocate… damghotthang1 has listed me as a contact. She has 846 other contacts (or ‘friends’ if you believe this 2.0 stuff). So I [...]

Woman dies after camel sits on her

I know I shouldn’t laugh but… breakingnews reports that Woman dies after camel sits on her The owner of an exotic animal farm has died after being kicked and then sat on by a 1,800lb camel. Her husband was reported as saying that “She wouldn’t let an animal suffer.” The camel was called Polo.

Trouble

You know you’re in trouble when you see this sort of thing in your blog account. I have a LibraryThing account and I’ve only ever had a dozen or so visits from there to here. . And now this! . The scary thing is that it looks real; only the XX in XX.librarything dot com [...]

Maggie Thatcher is dead?

[edit: It's not] Don’t know if it’s true but, an hour ago at 8pm, Chase me, ladies, I’m in the cavalry reported that Margaret Thatcher has passed away. I can’t see anything on BBC or, ahem, breakingnews.ie. No point in checking RTE as they’ve probably all gone home for the evening.

I read it in the newspaper so it must be true Feb2807

Sometimes my mind boggles at the people who are supposed to be running things on this tiny planet of ours. Two stories from The Register: US Superfighter software glitch fixed Jets can now cross Pacific, Far East safe for democracy again Significant new capabilities have been added to the US Air Force’s latest superfighter, the [...]

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