Imagine waking up in your first class seat aboard a 747 on a long haul flight to find the airborne version of a “legitimate businessmen” situation happening beside you. Well that’s what happened to Paul Trider when he woke up on a flight from Delhi to London, to find the flight crew manoeuvering a body…
The Day Before Tomorrow Originally uploaded by jbwan. Upon waking up this morning, the garden was covered with snow, my wheelie bins were strewn across the yard and my fence was blown down. We need a better term than “global warming”!
After many years of following the legal battles of the RIAA and cringing at everything that has happened, from suing 12-year-olds to claiming that they are oh so poor, this has to be the best yet. The RIAA have now explained why they are suing everyone from kids to adults, but especially kids. Apparently if…
Viacom are set to sue Google/YouTube for US$ 1 billion for alleged, wrongful usage of their video content. That’s a pretty big suit that if upheld could be a big problem for the free world of video sharing. source: BBC NEWS | Business
My FeedBurner goodies that I won in Paul‘s competition recently, just arrived! I am now the envy of all others. 🙂 Thanks Paul!
A lot has been said recently regarding the daylight saving move made by the US. Basically if you haven’t heard then this weekend, 3 weeks earlier than normal, the US rolled the clocks forward. The bid is predicted to save in the region of US $45 billion over the next few years. Not everyone is…
Some time ago now I started making references in my posts to a character by the name of John Chow. Some of you will have followed the links and perhaps even trawled my OPML to find out who the man is that goes by the name of John Chow; now I’m going to tell you.…
I’ve decided that the time has come to shelve my credentials. For many moons they shone brightly in the sidebar of my blog but alas it’s time to move on. Yes, I’ve removed my Nerd Test score and my Stupid Test score. I guess people will just have to judge for themselves now as to…
A murky day at Murrayfield, outside Edinburgh, and an Irish team that was nowhere near the giants that defeated the English two weeks previous. Leading from the outset the Irish never looked composed and even lesser so nearing the end of the first half and into the second. Half-way through the second half the Scottish…
The US Postal Service, in honour of the 30th anniversary of Star Wars are supposedly rolling out R2D2 styled mailboxes. Now who wouldn’t want to believe that? Why won’t An Post do fun stuff like this? We could have commemorative boxes for political bribe scandals whereby all post is refused unless it is in a…