Category: old blogging

Thank goodness it’s Friday. I’m really keen to get to the pub and relax a bit tonight.
However, to help Friday sufferers around the world, there is a new Weebl for your delectation.

Huge fire engulfs West Pier.
Sad.
Mind you, it’s a wonder that there is anything left to burn at all.
And how could a fire start there, at the seaward end?

By my reckoning, the 100,000th visitor to this site should pass by on Sunday evening or early Monday morning. If it’s you, say hello.

Today’s Telegraph reports an exodus of 300,000 refugees from Basra. Everyone else talks of a several hundred yesterday, plus maybe 2000 this morning. So the Telegraph’s reporting continues to maintain its high standards of factual accuracy.
Matt, on the other hand, is brilliant:

My train journey to work this morning went ok. It was notable that there were a large number of school kids milling around the centre of Chichester who’d obviously decided to "miss" the only train to school for an hour. But milling around Chichester in full school uniform is not subtle, it must be said.

I really should kill the CV page (linked under "gissa job" in the sidebar), what with starting my own business and all.

Apologies for yet another BBC link, but this article is well worth reading, as it helps to explain the rôle of oil in the current conflict – and it may not be what you think. Certainly has made me think about the issue again.

From Darren comes notice of the internet urinal. hmm.

I need something cheery to write here. This blog is getting all too serious, what with war, train strikes and Indian actresses. What we need is more silliness and frivolity, less seriousness – a lighter look at life.
Yes! What we need is cheese!

After devoting yesterday’s front cover to the uprising in Basra that didn’t happen (or at least not on anything like the scale that was reported), the Daily Telegraph devotes today’s cover to the counter-attack by the Republican Guard consisting of 1000 tanks and armoured vehicles.
Ooops. Seems that is wrong as well. Apparently the Republican Guard are still dug in, and the armoured column near Basra consisted of probably not more than ten vehicles, according to the reporting I’ve seen.
Doesn’t look like the Telegraph even attempts to verify any of its stories before running them, does it?