Updates

So I should probably mention that I've been hired by Greenpeace to be their 'Internal Communications Officer' which is nice. My brief is all about addressing internal communication and issues around their intranet. Plenty to get my teeth into there.

To cover the other usual subjects round here...

Iraq is still going to hell in a handbag. If there's a plan at the moment it seems to be that the Iraqi people will get terror fatigue before communal hatred becomes the dominant force in their lives. That's not just my take, the UK parliament seems to agree.

The US election is showing just what a mess things are over there, in most years these wouldn't exactly be revolutionary comments from a candidate.

"I will be a commander in chief who will never mislead us into war. I will have a vice president who will not conduct secret meetings with polluters to rewrite our environmental laws. I will have a Secretary of Defense who will listen to the best advice of our military leaders. And I will appoint an Attorney General who actually upholds the Constitution of the United States.

And Newcastle have signed Patrick Kluivert, which is going to make for an interesting season. Gary Speed's moved on, probably at about the right stage, but only 'cause we've got Nicky Butt for a bargain £2m and we've added James Milner to our 'collect a set' of former Leed's players. I guess Robson's done the most important part of his pre-season shopping, since after the complete demoralisation at the end of last season I'm actually looking forward to this one.

The Sceptical Environmentalist, Reviewed

Since Greenpeace are interviewing me for a job I thought I’d best get to grips with the environmental agenda. To that end I've just read and reviewed the sceptical environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg. You can download the review here, since blogger is objecting to some of the formatting when I cut and paste from MS Word.

Blimey, it's Greece!

Just to confess I didn't expect Greece to win. In fact I've written them off before every game they played except the one against Russia, where I thought they'd get a draw. So lets be clear my predictions were roughly that

Portugal were going to thrash greece on the opening day
Spain would thump them in their second match
Greece might draw with Russia to sneak through
France would stuff Greece for even being in the quarter final
The Czech's (my new favourites) were finally going to blow them away
No-one could beat Portugal in the final

Funny old game...