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  • Sunday Bloody Bush

    May not be what you’re expecting…

  • Christmas Is Coming (Apparently)

    Well, I’ve received my first [tag]Christmas[/tag] catalogue.

    I’m unwilling to accept even the arrival of the autumn, let alone winter. (Maybe it’s [tag]global warming[/tag]…)

    To be fair, the RNLI catalogue wasn’t purely Christmassy, but it does have ‘snowy morning’ 1000-piece puzzles and mulled wine whisk sets.

    Is it too early to even mention the ‘[tag]holiday season[/tag]’?
    Or is there harm in it? Does it devalue ‘the meaning of Christmas’, making it more and more about [tag]materialism[/tag]?

    Are ‘Seasonal Products’ made available ahead of time for those who can’t afford it any other way? Or are those people simply lacking in [tag]will power[/tag], or the ability to simply save money?

    UPDATE: I have since received the actual Christmas catalogue from the RNLI, nearly 3 month early!

  • Wasted Energy

    This [tag]short film[/tag], produced for Greenpeace, explains how our power infrastructure in the [tag]UK[/tag] wastes an enormous amount of [tag]energy[/tag].
    I’m no eco-nut*, and wouldn’t usually support Greenpeace, but this is a noteworthy issue and ‘[tag]decentralised energy[/tag]‘ does appear to have considerable merit.

    It is 18 minutes long, but worth watching (or at least listening to while you browse elsewhere in another tab/window).

    *- not that nutty anyway.

  • Green Packaging

    Sainsbury’s has started using fully compostable packaging for 500 of its products.

    Sainsbury’s say that this will save 4010 thousand tonnes of [tag]fossil fuel[/tag] each year, with the added benefit of saving 3550 tonnes of plastic, an embarrasing amount of which would have gone to landfill.

    Friend of the Earth were typically negative, saying (with an awful pun)

    “Today’s announcement is a step in the right direction, but it has a long way to go before it can be viewed as a [tag]green[/tag] grocer.”

    They’re right that there is more to be done, but people, and businesses, thrive on compliments not “it’s not good enough”s.

  • Kenya: Reef Walk: Starfish

    On the last full day of the holiday, after the gf had injured her foot, I went on a guided walk out to the reef.
    It was about a kilometer out, and I was shown various creatures by the beach boy (who was probably my age actually).

    Starfish

    This is a male starfish (the females are 5 sided blobs), and I was told that there are also green and blue versions of this.
    You can see some damage to the end of the lowest ‘arm’ – this is where it had been nibbled at by a __ (I forget), and it was unable to move away from it. (I have video of Spider Starfish moving – it’s quite bizarre that they can even choose a direction to move!)

  • Kenya: Safari: Zebras

    You probably want to see less of me, and more of the animals, so:

    ZebrasZebras Hosted on Zooomr

    Notice the fuzzy manes on the young ones.

  • Kenya: Hotel Pool: Me Swimming

    The drip-feed continues…

    This is me in the hotel pool on one of the three (iirc) wet’n’windy days.
    My gf had hurt her foot by this point so was taking photos, and I wanted the exercise.

    Hotel Pool Me SwimmingHotel Pool Me Swimming Hosted on Zooomr

    Note the swim-up bar, where (as at the other bars at the hotel) they didn’t use measures, and the alcohol was free.

  • Bounce Spam?

    I, like a lot of people, get a lot of [tag]spam[/tag] [tag]email[/tag]s.
    I get a lot of these via a catch-all, but I’m now turning that off. Should I bounce or just ignore those messages?

    I’d like to think that the spammers would be put off by emails bounced back to them, but think I have to accept that they probably won’t even get the bounces, so I’d just be creating a little more pointless internet traffic.

    Perhaps the ‘[tag]email tax[/tag]’ suggestions should be adapted to only make people pay for bounced emails?

  • Working Nights

    My girlfriend is starting her first week (7 days) of night shifts, and I’m going to try to do the same hours.
    I work from home, on t’intraweb, so why not? I’m going to see how well it can work, if there’s anything which makes it difficult.
    (For example, we’ve already been woken up twice by the doorbell.)

    Obviously I shouldn’t be awake right now, but I am – we’re in the transition phase.

    UPDATE: (17 hours later)
    I’ve actually had a reasonably productive, er, shift. I don’t really know why, but I had longer periods of concentration than usual.
    I did sleep (or at least doze) in the afternoon, and so I’m not even feeling that tired right now. I’ll probably sleep well today though as I will be needing it.

  • Baby!

    Congratulations to my brother and his wife!

    She is 12 weeks pregnant and doing well. (Due date: 23rd February 2007)
    I’m going to be an uncle, which now I think about it, and as suggested by the gf, makes me feel quite old.

    I’ll see them both at my sister’s wedding which is in a few weeks.
    For now, it’s still a little surreal.