While researching material for a training course I have to write for my team, I came across this site
It has loads of free-to-view seminars on all sorts of stuff – given one recent topic of conversation, this one caught my eye.
Author: bravo22c
Now, THIS is what alternative energy is all about
70 million quid, the weight of a jumbo jet, 1 passenger, flies at the speed of bicycle. Woo bloody hoo. Orville and Wilbur did better with a screwdriver, a spanner adjustable, a hammer and some masking tape for a few lousy bucks.
This is freakin’ outrageous!
It is written in the article that wearing the cross is not a requirement of the christian faith, unlike the muslim headscarf, which, as we all know, is also not a requirement of the faith.
This is an example of out-and-out discrimination.
Yes, I know, I don’t care a hoot about any form of organised superstition, but I do defend freedom of expression to the bitter end and, I am especially [passionate about one law for all. (Which is why I obey the stupid smoking discrimination laws, apart from being the considerate person that I am.)
(And yes, there is a difference between public and private freedom of expression, jut like the B&B lady and the queers.)
Lighten up a bit…
Ladies, read only the first part. Gentlemen, carry on to the end.
A Woman was out golfing one day when she hit the ball into the woods. She went into the woods to look for it and found a frog in a trap. The frog said to her, “If you release me from this trap, I will grant you three wishes.”
This looks like a good Movie
Just watch, it’s in Russian, but you’ll understand.
Sunny Easter Sunday
Thought I’d take a few pictures of some of the less grand buildings around the neighbourhood – as well as a couple of historical interest.
Spring is (nearly) here.
It was a nice Spring day today – a bit brisk at about 8 degrees, but sunny and fine – and I was up early…
You read it first here, Folks
And, just as a matter of interest, what does a Corporate Security Consultant actually do that is worth an enterprise spending money on? Pull up a chair and I’ll tell you
Deja vu all over again
As you might imagine, I’m a little busy here this morning. The bombs on the Metro have caused 30+ reported deaths and another 40 injured so far but reports are still coming in. Responsibility has been claimed by a muslim separatist group from Chechnya – though they are most active currently in Dagestan where there have been 19 terrorist attacks so far this year. It is the same group which claimed responsibility for the attack on the Moscow – St Petersburg express in November.
The attacks were made on the busiest line on the Moscow Metro, one on an interchange in the suburbs, Park Kulturyi, and one on a very busy interchange in the centre right underneath the HQ of the Federal Security Bureau, successor to the Soviet KGB. The attacks were timed for maximum effect at the peak of the rush hour. I was fortunate that I left for work before the explosions occurred – the one in the centre being about half a mile from where I live and the second one being next to the road i travel every morning to get to the office and about a half-mile away, again.
The metro is still running, but getting into the centre is a nightmare and traffic is almost grid-locked.
Al Jazeera is carrying the best reports – you may find these links interesting.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/08/2009817141410883512.html
PS. The blog title refers to personal experience. N. Ireland, Germany, London, Serbia and now Moscow. One moment people are going about their everyday business, the next they are lying in the rubble and chaos shocked, stunned and bleeding – or worse, in little red, wet gobbets spread around the scene. And you wonder why I go on about terrorists. Ask yourself this, where does the money come from to finance these groups – but better yet, don’t ask me, ask TTM and Levent.
Proportionate Response
An article in today’s Telegraph on the BA strike reports that if striking cabin crew miss one day of work they can lose up to two weeks pay. That looks, on first glance to be a little OTT, not to say dis-proportionately punitive on the part of management. Read on, however, and it becomes clear that: it’s not quite that simple
Boadicea's Chariot 
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