Unslick responses to the oil catasrophe
Oil right on the night
What is it about oil disasters? Somehow they seem to be taken for granted. But if just a few radioactive atoms spill from a nuclear power station its an environmental catastrophe. But oil – well it seems to be an acceptable Bad weather hampered efforts to tackle the [...]
South Korean Woman Feels Very Very Peaky
A little South Korean climber with the tantalisingly brief name Ms Oh has reached the top of Annapurna in Nepal and claimed a record for becoming the first woman to scale the world’s 14 highest peaks. But mountaineering afficiandos are less than convinced apparently.
Oh Eun-sun was shown live on television planting a South Korean [...]
More on telephones
I was in a meeting earlier this week when everybody got out their mobile telephones and put them on the table in front of them. That struck me as rather amusing. Then I noticed that two of them had two phones – although I guess the second mobile communication device might have been [...]
April 13, 2010Ashes to Ashes
Well I haven’t attempted to fly anywhere just recently, which is probably just as well – because despite the gloriously sunny days, we are led to believe a huge plume of icelandic volcanic ash was lurking p there in the jet stream.
Maybe there was an ash cloud – maybe there wasn’t. It seems that [...]
Second helpings of irony
Only in TV land would they deem it a good idea for a chef who gave hundreds of people food poisoning has been lined up to improve hospital food. Hospital food designed to appeal to the taste buds of the elderly has been launched by TV chef Heston Blumenthal and a team of scientists.
The [...]
Car insurance drives me over the edge
Why is it that car insurance companies insist on putting your policy up every year – even though you never make a claim. And why is it that there are so many car insurance companies queuing up for your business when you get fed up and go somewhere else?
It ought to be illegal – [...]
Kyrgyzstan sounds a nice place
A pair of snow leopards and two bear cubs were among the exotic animals found in the private zoo of ousted Kyrgyzstan President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. This rather exotic-sounding (if slightly unpronounceable) place sprung to global attention, either because of a bloody uprising or some minor BBC hack was being held
A golden eagle, two falcons, [...]
Surely they have the best job in the world?
It’s cold, it’s raining and I am drinking coffee and reading the Saturday paper that tells me Lewis Hamilton is fastest in qualifying for the grand prix. Nothing unusual in that except I am watching the qualifying for the grand prix – and Hamilton is already out apparently. Once again I find [...]
April 2, 2010An Enduring Love Hate Relationship with British Telecom
My everyday relationship with BT hit an all-time low last week when I rang customer relations in an attempt to see why my bill was so massive. I guess it had been a bad day in the office for BT customer relations… but they actually deliberately cut me off rather than help. Needless [...]
April 1, 2010April Fool’s day for savers
Every year there is a flurry of adverts extolling the virtue of maximising your tax allowance on savings. And every year I wonder if anyone falls for it. I mean – are you really beating the tax man if you pile any spare cash into low interest accounts? And who actually has [...]