Seldom the visionary

Busy days

Quite irritated by the idiot Bush pissing on the U.S. Constitution.

Not entirely sure what he reckons threatening North Korea will achieve except sleepless nights for anyone within striking distance of the snazzily dressed Kim Jong-il.

I’m not sure strong arm tactics work in all situations, but perhaps Dubya was bullied as a child and feels the need to get his own back on the world. As well, I fear, he might.

Sad to hear about the remains found in New York. Grim, but then again, with the somewhat indecent haste the WTC rubble was cleared, it’s not a huge surprise.

My new job started a few days ago. Curious, interesting, and mostly contains all the elements mentioned in the interviews, which is a bit of a first in my experience. Busy, busy and busy again.

I’ve taken a few seconds to plan the novel. A great idea has fallen from somewhere, but sadly on closer examination it turns out that it is also the main storyline of a very successful film I saw a decade ago. Oops.

As no further great ideas appeared, I thought a bit hard about this, and then realised that although the stories are vaguely similar (but under the terms of the comp I’ve not planned anything, so who knows for sure?), so was the storyline of the film’s sequel. They merely changed the location (although curiously the bad guy mentions the bad guy from the first film by name, so I guess I’m probably the only person on Earth who didn’t realise it was more remake than sequel.

Oh, discovered that journalists, even very friendly ones are capable of lying, which was a shock.

Anyhow, there’s still time to join:

Add comment October 22nd, 2006

Tomorrow’s the day

I had to read this a few times before I could accept it as serious.

BBC News

I’m glad to see the anti-terrorism well hasn’t run dry yet.

I’m not entirely sure how this system would help in the case of

a) a “terrorist” who has a clean past (see 9/11 for details)

or

b) a bomb in a suitcase with no dodgy passenger with it (see Lockerbie for details)

Of course, the population of right thinking individuals will simply accept this as okay.

We don’t need leaders any more, we need shepherds.

1 comment October 12th, 2006

Five days, 22 and 1/2 hours

In a few days I leave my present employer. No flowers.

In just over five days, I start a new job. Woo.

So it is all go. I still blog. Not often, a little here, a little there, and once over there, but I’ve not given up on the idea of writing.

I hope to include the lines:

“you score 96 per cent”

“out of what?”

in my efforts here :

Add comment October 10th, 2006