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Just as in every major conflict which has occurred in the Balkans over the past one hundred years, the igniting spark for the next one has failed to attract due attention from the world media. The next battle Looms.read more | digg story

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Online relationships can be fleeting, or they can be long standing. Sometimes they can just end abruptly, without a word of explanation, without reason and without a word of farewell. read more | digg story

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The apostles who wrote the bibles cared! Did the Nicaean Council care as much?read more | digg story

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It is a question that has vexed science for many years. It is, simply put;Why is the universe that we live in always 'just right' for us to live in? read more | digg story

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It's as if the Turks have somehow gotten hold of the old 'script', including the breaks and time lines. Isn't it all becoming so familiar that anybody with an ear for the news could just hop on board and become the main architect for war in any country, any theater on the globe. It's easy, just follow these simple instructionsread more | digg story

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I know something that my father didn't, and could never have known. He might have begun to suspect it had he just lived a few years longer.What he never knew is that I am immortal!I have the honour of belonging to the first generation of immortal human beings, really.read more | digg story

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In the few years since the invasion of Iraq by coalition forces and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, I have noticed a seed change in the way atrocities are reported by the media.read more | digg story

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This e-petition is an attempt to get the Government of the UK to join the EAC. and get British Astronauts up there into space with the rest of Europe.No single commitment could do more to inspire the general public with regards to space efforts. In joining the EAC, our government could in stroke inspire the young of today to look to the heavens in wonder and commit themselves to the study of the

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My pet hate!I've been asked to do a re-write on a short story I submitted for publication. I know it's a good result - not an out of hand rejection - but I really hate doing it. After all, my writing is perfect...isn't it?It's hard to do. Writers love their own written words. We are an anal retentive bunch.

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The picture above was taken in the Northern Sahara Desert. It's a salt plain and that horizon continues for 360 degrees. Anita looks sort of lost surrounded by all that space.

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I hate post holiday blues.We've been back for almost a fortnight and I still feel like shit.The only cure I know is to go back out so I've booked for Tunisia.Leaving next week for a fortnight.Yep!!

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I'm off to sunny Spain in about six hours. No computers, no work!See you in about a weeks time.

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Oh... I am so looking forward to my hols. This time the whole family are off to Spain together.We are flying out on 14th June to Gerona. Hope the airline is ready for us, I can just see the kids taking over the airport. Anita and I will probably have to book another week away just to get over it!Roll on.

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Lately we've been getting strange calls at our house.The caller display service reads 011111 as the number calling. If we answer the call there is nobody on the other end of the line, strange!A friend of ours reckons that this is an automated call - nothing sinister about that - but the reason for the call appears to be an attempt to log the time of day that the phone is answered and when it is

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It seems like just yesterday that we were all fired up and exited about the birth of our latest grandson Mikey.I looked down the blog and it was just a few posts ago.Just take a look at the little terror Now!He has really grown up so fast.

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I’ve always thought that to start an autobiography with the phrase ‘My earliest recollections are of…’ was a very trite thing to do, sort of like the proverbial dark and stormy nights of literary legend. However, when that recollection involves coming within a cat’s whisker of setting the family home ablaze and possibly wiping out the entire French dynasty in one mischievous stroke…what choice do

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I've been working on transposing some of my analogue tapes onto the PC.I realised that this year is the 20th anniversary of the break up of my old band (Flight) so I felt the need to mark this watershed. I've put up some tracks fro the 80's on my writing website.There are some 4 track originals and a couple of 16 track demo's up there. I also put up a few recordings from a gig that we played at a

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Well, it's been a day or two since I last blogged at this site.So many blog hosts about it's just impossible to ignore them all. I must have dozens of dormant blog accounts all over the net!At least my great grandchildren will be able to google me. HA!Take care out there.

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My brother-in-law brought this coincidence to my attention the other day.My son Michael died on the 25th of the month (Christmas day) at 07:25Claire gave birth to Michael Edward (My new Grandson) at 07:25 on the 25th of the month, last Monday. Nine months exactly after the 25th of December. If you read my last post you will see why this is so incredible.

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It's 02:45 and I'm still up and alert. The reason; I got to bed at 11:00 today because I was up through the night with my daughter Claire as she went through the hell of childbirth. The call came at around 9:30 yesterday evening (Sunday) as Anita and I were sitting in our Nikki's house babysitting Kyisha and Cassius while Nikki went to work.Claire said she was experiencing pains at 10 minute

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I was just browsing blog explosion when something reminded me of this little ditty I heard on local radio. I think it was part of an ad. but I can't remember the product. Some ads. are so good that you don't ever remember the product, just the ad. (I love it!, Ha) Anyway it goes like this:"Little Johnny liked to pull faces. He pulled faces at school, at home or even on the bus. His mummy used to

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I found this somewhere a while ago.I thought it was worth another airing after reading a blog where the owner was complaining about bloggers 'Spelling'I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mind. Aoccdrnig to a rseearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng

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According to latest news reports the Pope has NOT apologised for reminding the world of a centuries old discusion reagarding the use of the sword to spread the faith. But he DID express regret at the way that his remarks were interpreted.Good!

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So Pope Benedict XVI apologises to the Muslem masses.The same people that only yesterday where burning his efigy and stamping on it, calling for his assasination - you know the stuff -!!What sort of world do we now live in for pete's sake?

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A free thought experiment Watch a documentary on the origin of life and you will soon see – if you are of the intensely inquisitive variety – glaring gaps in the story of how life evolved from long chain molecules to multi-celled life forms, or indeed, how the long chain molecules got there in the first place. I’d like to skip the story of how these molecules came into being at this

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It's raining.At last we have rain in our area. We have missed all of the localized showers which have been reported by the weather channels over the past week but this one is right on the button.Perhaps we'll see some green grass tomorrow.

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It's way too hot to sit in this room writing out posts this week!It's going to cool down in a day or two so it will be back to the keyboard then.I've also been spending the hot days building my new shed out back.Here's a little preview.What a mess.Lining the fence. I used the tin sides of my old shed to add a metal skin to the back fence.The white square is my beer fridge!One week later. Most of

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Well............There's always 2010Sigh.....

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The world cup final is getting closer and closer with the quarters almost done.England v Portugal tonight! It seems as if we've been waiting months for this, how can a week take so long to pass? I love the way absolutely nobody on the telly has dared to even suggest the one thing that millions of English and German viewers are secretly hoping for....a replay of the 1966 WCF between these two

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A local radio station aired that old argument today. The internet is a good thing - The internet is a bad thing.To say I was shocked by some of the points of view expressed by the debaters (called in or texted in) would be a lie - I've heard it all before.There was the usual stuff coming in;The proponents - The improved communication allowing all of us here in the west to see just how badly some

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Giants do exist I know because when I was about 8 years old I used to walk from Speke, near Liverpool to Hale village, a distance of about three or four miles. (Yes, it was different back then, children could do that.) I seem to remember that it was always summer on these walks and, as I was usually with a friend, we used to knock on the front doors of the big houses on the way and beg a cold

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Now before you start posting on the fact that midsummer night on Mars is NOT tonight - I know - but I found this pic and I just couldn't resist it.Sunset on MarsShown here right at the summer solstice.Cool!

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Somehow I ended up at this site selling 'Marzipan Babies!!'Now, is it just me or do you have to be really wierd to bite the head off of one of these things?

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Last year, or was it the year before? I was browsing when I came across this 'International' writing contest. It was in the SLO Times based in CA, USA. Entrants had to write a complete story using exactly 55 words.I entered the competition.A few weeks later (After I'd forgotten about it completely.) a huge envelope came through the letterbox. it was a copy of the SLO Times Newspaper, all the way

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Once, a long time ago, I played in a rock band. Trevor, our lead guitarist, still does.Anita and I went over to Chicago to visit him and his family.Trev's new band is named 'Last Call' and they play good solid rock music. Trev is still good at vocal harmonies too!We got together for a massive jam at one of the band's rehearsal nights in Greg's factory. (Greg is a friend and neighbor of Trev's.)It

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I finally got around to digging out the video from my last vist to the States.I snatched this frame from a short shot outside Dunkin Donuts on the main road along the Space Coast just outside Cape Canaveral.We (Anita and I) were inside getting loaded up when I looked out of the window and saw this sky.For a moment or two it looked like the church had got it right and God was on his way down. Phew!

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Jacob had been missing for three weeks. On Friday night around 10 o'clock we got a call from a kind lady who said she may have him in her garden. I drove around and sure enough it was Jacob. After weeks away he knew me right away. He is home now and reunited with his sister Jessie.All's well that ends well.

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I just noticed that it's been almost a year since my last post.Unforgivable!I'm a whole year older.Scary!

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Well,I've been away.Life gets in the way sometimes. Anita has been ill. I've stopped working completely now. I might just keep up this time.Whad'ya say?Thanks for the visits while I've been away.Tomorrow!

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Anita and I took two of our grandchildren to the Jodrell Bank observatory today.We haven't been for a few years and we were in for a surprise when we arrived.They had pulled down the science centre. The whole building has gone!In its place they have a theatre that you might just squeeze thirty people in at a huge push. They showed an 18 minute 3d film (With Glasses) and that is the bloody

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Talking of Middle Age....Yes, I did the 'Number one on the day you were born thingy'US Charts: Unchained Melody - Les Baxter and Dance With Me Henry - Georgia Gibbs shared the No.1 for two week's. Uk Charts: Stranger In Paradise - Tony Bennett

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Scroll down If you are looking for Jack DooleyI found this on Reuters.So, it's official, I am only just getting to middle aged. (I celebrated my 50th 0n 18 May)LONDON (Reuters) - Is 40 really the new 30?Everyone is getting older but in many ways people today act younger than their parents did at the same age. Scientists have defined a new age concept and believe it could explain why populations

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Row upon row of terraced houses struck out left and right off King Street as it arrowed its way through Garston, heading for the peanut warehouses at its eastern end. On almost every corner a dimly lit pub beckoned the dockers inside for an after work pint of mild or bitter. Saturday teatime it was the place to be if you wanted to watch a good fisticuffs bout as the men left their own 'local' to

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The Jack Dooley series is played out entirely within the Port of Garston. Garston grew up around the docks situated at the southernmost (or furthest upstream) commercialised area of the the river Mersey, located in the North West region of England. It wasn't long before the City of Liverpool consumed the port in its entirety and Garston became no more than a sub district of that once great

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Over at Simply Writing I have a series of short experimental pieces which describe life in the 1950's as seen through the eyes of a young boy. This boy - Jack Dooley - lived alongside the bustling docks in the port of Liverpool. This was Liverpool before the Beatles, before the Merseybeat explosion. There is no background narrative in these pieces, I have tried to move the action on through

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I wonder if somebody read my post earlier this monthUK joins campaign to stamp out spam 'zombies' Twenty countries around the world have pledged to 'educate' their ISPs about the dangers of botnets and their role in the spread of spam. 'Operation Spam Zombies' will involve those countries and a further 16 government agencies have promised to send letters to more than 3,000 ISPs around the world.

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The tenth actor to play the Doctor on television, David Tennant will take over from Christopher Eccleston in the coveted role for the Christmas special in December 2005 and the second season of the new series, which will be shown in 2006.Tennant, who turns 34 on April 18, just two days after the announcement, recently starred with Peter O’Toole in the BBC’s Casanova, a 3-part adaptation of the

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It's turning into a 'gripe' day, what with the Crazy Frog and all. But seriously, where is all this Reality tv heading?Personally, I just cannot stand any of it. I do not watch it. I've just heard that Big Brother is due for screening in a few weeks - God help me. (It must be on in our house)You know of course that this plethora of RTV programs comes at the expense of quality tv programming.

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You know, I am soo sick of seeing - and hearing - that ridicules Crazy Frog ring tone advert on tv.Who decided to give the bloody thing a pecker?Who decided to cover it with a peice of dancing black censor patch?Would somebody please shoot the ad people and GET IT OFF THE TV.

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Just in case anybody missed it in the previous post. Here it is again.Posted by Hello

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LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - A young woman chopped off her husband's penis with a kitchen knife in northern India over his "blatant indulgence in womanising and drinking", police said on Saturday. The 27-year-old woman said her husband of 10 years had brought a prostitute home to Lucknow in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Friday, police said. "I wanted to teach him a lesson for his

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There are still no definite leads on the identity of the so-called "Piano Man" despite more than 500 calls from the public, his care workers have said. The mystery man, who has been unable to communicate with police or carers, was found wandering the streets in Sheerness, Kent, in a soaking wet suit. He stunned carers by drawing detailed pictures of a grand piano and giving a virtuoso

Eddie Frenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10018127238146546623noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5744325.post-1116103476394205302005-05-14T21:36:00.000+01:002005-05-17T13:11:26.593+01:00

It's enough to set the nut cases ranting for months to come. There have been so many pictures of rocks beamed down to Earth from Spirit and Opportunity that sooner or later you can pick any shape out of the mass that you could think of. This one however, is sure to get the conspiracy nuts going wild.You have to see it to believe it.The Incredible Martian Truth?

Eddie Frenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10018127238146546623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5744325.post-1115576646343700722005-05-08T19:20:00.000+01:002005-05-08T19:24:06.353+01:00

I take security pretty seriously lately.It may be however, that we are being let down by the very people who take our money to provide us with access the the net. Recently I have started to recieve 'Undeliverable' reports in my inbox regarding emails to people I have never sent email to, ever. These are multiple recipient emailings with up to 12 recipients each time.The frequency of these reports

Eddie Frenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10018127238146546623noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5744325.post-1114717931433159732005-04-28T20:43:00.000+01:002005-04-28T20:52:11.433+01:00

I feel good about what I've achieved this week. I'm finally writing again.I even managed to get involved in a few discussions on Usenet. This, after a long hiatus when nothing creative came from this worn out husk.I have almost finished another Jack Dooley episode. It's not the best I've done, but I know now that the next one will be great.No more hiding the keyboard away.No more ignoring the

Eddie Frenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10018127238146546623noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5744325.post-1113170096018771102005-04-10T22:53:00.000+01:002005-04-10T22:54:56.020+01:00

Moore’s law states that computing power doubles every 18 months. This is not an aggregate result reflecting the increasing use of moderately efficient computers on a worldwide scale, it is a literal statement concerning the rapidly growing computational power of individual machines which are commercially available to anybody with the means to acquire them.Since its inception, the this law has

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It’s just a week before Christmas 1994. It’s cold, the rain not quite making it to snow. The wind cuts deep but you don’t care, you are rushing home with the disks clutched tightly in your palm, safely wrapped in a small plastic bag. Three floppies that are about to change your life forever.In the front door and straight up the stairs, dinner can wait. You boot up the 486 dx 66 and pop the first

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Net nostalgia? How can something as new as the World Wide Web suddenly develop that magical quality which tugs at the heart with a reminiscent fondness for things past? Well, first we have to define the parameters for nostalgia. What makes a subject or a pastime nostalgic?Age? The passage of time certainly lends itself to the creation of things nostalgic.Absence from general usage? Yes,

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What a day,Tried to get a shitload of stuff done for the company involving the taxman. Why is it that the taxman thinks he can make up the rules as he goes along.?How can a single person have three different tax references?Three different demand, three different amounts, from three different offices.Try telling that to three different 'taxpersons'Best result possible was to get all three demands

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The art of DIY is fast disappearing. I am 49 years old and have moved around a lot. Each time we moved to a new house there was some work to do to it just to get it the way we wanted to live in it. My offspring however, move into a house and just call dad. Move this wall, close this door off, open a new one there! Has anybody around my age ever tried to get the son in law to get his hands dirty

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I am not even going to try tonight What a shitty day! I'm pooped Bed!

Eddie Frenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10018127238146546623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5744325.post-1062338368968086312003-08-31T14:59:00.000+01:002003-08-31T14:59:28.870+01:00

Well, after an hour or so of trying to get the ftp version up and running I gave up. I appears that my ISP doesn't want Blogger messing about within it's space. I've had to resort to hosting my blog at Blogger.com, and accept all of the limitations that implies. Oh well, at least I'm up and running at last. Now all I've got to do is think of something interesting to say!

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