Time for a change
Tim from Bloggerheads has brought us an infomercial on the Labour Party. (big flash file ahead)Neatly summing up the problems for all those of us who quite like Labour, loath some of the current policies and are still scarred by the memories of Tory rule. Lib dem this time round for me? Or a Labour MP with balls. Hell, I'm not even sure if I can vote at the moment given my somewhat between nations status.
Pictures from Iraq
Apparently these pictures were taken by a soldier in Iraq. Well worth a look, if only to show the kind of pictures embedded journalists seem not to have been allowed to publish. Be warned though, there are plenty of gruesome images in there.Wedding Bells
Maria's brother and his fiance tied the knot a week ago today and it was a wonderful occassion. Since weddings are private I'll keep most of the blogging to the reception. It was held on a boat, this boat to be exact.
Despite the appearances this boat is only pretending to be a sailing ship. It started life as a commercial whaler with an engine, when the decision came to convert it to a pleasureboat the masts were added. They do work though, and once we were underway the engines went off and we made our way along under sail. Indeed at one point a group of guests were prevailed on to haul away at various ropes. I did so, and somewhere high above me something moved, I think.
Below decks was a large and well appointed dining area, a bar and a disco. In true modern style this was DJ'd from a laptop and in true wedding style 70's and 80's hits pounded out all night turning the old whaler in the the disco boat of luuurve. The bride rather sensibly had abandoned her wedding shoes by this time and switched to something more sensible.
and of course no wedding report would be complete without a picture of the happy couple, Jan and Suse de Kleijn
Much holiday stuff
I know I haven't blogged for ages. Here then is the run down of what I've been up to. Starting with this rather nice Dutch castle that Maria and I visited at the weekend. It turns out that the castle is something of a fake, most of it fell down a long time ago and the restoration was done at the start of the 20th century.
It's still pretty amazing though. The insides (which I wasn't able to photograph) boast some stupendous architecture and wonderful ornaments. The whole thing is owned by the grandson of a Dutch count who married a Rothschild (I think) it was designed not so much as a restoration, but as an imagination. It's what the architect (Cuipers, who also did Amsterdam central station and the Reichsmuseum (??) and the patron wanted to believe medieval life was like. Plus electricity and the most modern kitchen of its day.
All in all a grand day out.
Running how far?!
According to the Multimap map I've just printed off and measured my usual jogging route is 3.6 miles, which makes my time of 18:48 pretty damn impressive. So impressed was I at this unsuspected ability to run 5:12 miles back to back I checked on a different map.This suggests that I actually ran a rather more realistic 2.5 miles , knocking out 7:36 minute miles which
a) sounds like something I could do and
b) still makes me rather happy
Privacy Schmivacy
With my Yahoo email account drowning in Spam (I got 70 unsolicited mails over one weekend) despite the filtering system I've cheerfully signed up for the Gmail trial available through blogger. Do I care about the little adverts by the side of the mail, not yet I don't, and if they can keep it Spam free I doubt I ever will.I've got a Gmail email address and I'm sure as hell not writing it here!
What blogs are good at
Doc Searls has just summarised a quick tour of what the various Iraqi blogs are saying at the moment.He gets a good cross section of opinion and informed comment on a number of issues quickly by clicking, cutting and pasting. This kind of reportage journalism is very easy for a few subjects these days thanks to blogs (Iraq, Tech, US Politics) as a number of consistent and known voices are available around which can be built a network of others.
Surely it's just a matter of time before major news channels (increasingly just news aggregators) start tying this stuff together on a regular basis.
On a completely different not B3ta are trying to launch a TV station.
Rock n roll
My sister is visiting at the moment, and has done me the fantastic service of pointing out that BBC Radio 6 is available over the internet, and that it rocks. A lot.She also brought a Franz Ferdinand CV, which is pretty cool too.
Lovely stuff.
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