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Water, water everywhere...
Posted Jul 23, 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6269046.stm
..and nor a drop to drink.
One swallow doesn't make a summer, and by the same reckoning one soggy summer doesn't make a global warming catastrophe. Yet this is but one drop in a steadily swelling ocean of evidence that bolsters the view of the IPCC.
I'm now *itching* for a scrap with the right-wing ideologues and climate change naysayers on this subject. And, if I have any sense of self-respect, they will walk away with the equivalent of bloody noses. To maintain it's all an environmentalist fiction or left-wing conspiracy by quiche eaters is not just disingenuous, it's glib to the point of being foolhardy.
My door is open. Do feel free to come in, denialists, and we'll have a nice little chat...
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Friday 13th
Posted Jul 14, 2007
In the morning I got into the Guzzling Green Monster, turned the ignition key, only to find the engine management unit light came on. Oh great, more money to fix a fault.
Got into work to find that the previous day's demo of our new stock management system didn't go at all well, and fingers were pointing at me as was the data migration bod. Three hours later and I manage to pin down the problem to a piece of dodgy code - someone else's problem, but the damage was done.
In the afternoon, I tried to load the multisite data into our validation database, only to find that a very competent colleague has inadvertently edited one of my scripts wrongly, and I ended up trashing the database as a result.
The day was topped off quite nicely when we were all called into a meeting at 4.00 pm to tell us our project was being canned due to lack of funds. Could be worse, I suppose, it could be raining.
Oh look, it *is* raining.
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More brown stuff from the Greens
Posted Jun 30, 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6252594.stm
Grain says: "The numbers involved are mind-boggling. The Indian government is talking of planting 14 million hectares of land with jatropha."
Utter dingo's kidneys. Jatropha is being planted for biofuels because (a) it grows anywhere, even in soils unsuited for anything else because they are virtually desert and (b) the oil it produces is poisonous and can't be eaten anyway, so nobody in their right mind would turn over fertile farmland to jatropha production.
I'd never heard of Grain before this ill-advised intervention. i think we have another Brent Spar fiasco in the making here.
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That's the spirit!
Posted Jun 30, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VdNcCcweL0
I'd like to build a big incinerator for stories about Hilton, the Beckhams, Pete Docherty and his bloody drugs problem and anybody who has ever had anything to do with the Big Brother House. Donations of combustibles welcomed gratefully.
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Extremely sad people
Posted Jun 30, 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6255334.stm
Happiness is now buying anything with a label on it.
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