tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78329262011-12-19T15:20:42.511ZI started this blog as a travel-log after working as a volunteer with <a href="http://www.spw.org">SPW</a> in Tanzania for five months in 2004. Bwana Bomba was my nickname in the village; in English, it means "Mr Bombastic" (or "Mr Pump", but I assure you that in my case it means "Mr Bombastic"). The main site about my travels, which is rather untidy and incomplete at the moment, can be found <a href="http://uk.geocities.com/philhatchuk"><b>here</b></a>.Phil Hatchardhttps://profiles.google.com/110099054189265551094noreply@blogger.comBlogger2521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832926.post-1123627400587416912005-08-09T23:41:00.000+01:002005-08-09T23:43:20.596+01:00

Presenting...A Blog With A Purpose *points*

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I can't be bothered blogging on here any more. I leave you with the following joke from a Penguin wrapper:Which bird is always out of breath?A Puffin*bows, exits stage left*

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I've copy-and-pasted them all into this blog. So this blog now looks as though it stretches back to February 2004, wheareas in reality February to July 2004 are really emails I sent to all my friends.All a bit of a pointless exercise really - I doubt anyone is going to trawl through them all, but it's nice for me to have them all in one place, and I think I'm going to wrap this blog up soon so I

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I received two good pieces of news in the post yesterday. Firstly, for my PGCE school placements next year, I shall spend the spring term in an independent school (how the hell did I manage that?) and in the summer term the placements is pretty unsurprising. The best thing is that I shall not have to find somewhere new to stay at any point next year.The second good piece of news is that I have

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Very, I would say.In a vague attempt to maintain some form of anonimity for those involved, I shall replace such person's names with letters of the alphabet.Yesterday, I bumped into Person A in the car park of the School of X, where I now work (ever since May this year). She works for the School of Y, where I used to work, before I went to Tanzania. So, I worked there from October 2003 to

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A lot's happened this week (8 days). Here's ten. Last Thursday I ended up running the first leg in the A team and second leg in the B team at the Tavy Relays as Sean didn't turn up. So we have a pretty average team overall, and I had barely run for nigh on four months. A very nice surprise then when not only did we come third and win a prize, but I was the second fastest in the team. Closest

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Just given blood. Let's just say it wasn't as straightforward as the other time I gave blood. For a start I had to answer "yes" to some of the questions, because I've been to Africa. They then had to grill me about the "unexplained fevers" that I'd had when out there.Then I suddenly remembered that I'd also been to Morocco, so that sparked another, albeit briefer, round of questions.Then when

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Had a great time with Join Me, the benign cult, in Brighton this weekend. Dressed as a pirate (Yarr!!)These first three photos are our team working hard on our scavenger hunt. On, erm, the carousel. Unfortunately we didn't win, despite being the last team to return, by some margin. Apparently finding Linford Christie in a shoe shop a bloody mile from the seafront doesn't earn you any points. A

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Oh yes indeedy. Taking the day off work tomorrow. 35 minutes to go.My sister's down for the weekend from today, but I'm off to Brighton on Saturday. So I need tomorrow to actually spend some time with my sister, and to prepare my pirate outfit and picnic contribution for Brighton.Unfortunately the weekend starts with a race - the Tavy relays are tonight, and I'm running first leg for the B

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As I've mentioned previously, last weekend, I was in Birmingham for my good friend Russell's stag do.I was supposed to be rehearsing for the August play on Friday night, but because of the unfortunate birth of Richard Branson, I was forced to travel up country that afternoon, instead of Saturday morning.I had managed to secure a bed with one of Russell's coursemates, Tom, who I may or may not

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I'm not really asking for much in this post: just to read this and spare a thought for someone you've never met, and millions of others in similar situations around the world.Titusy is a young man I got to know very well last year in Tanzania. My village of Ihalimba was next to his home village of Vikula, where Getruda and Belinda were the volunteers. From the moment the volunteers arrived in his

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Heard about this already of course. There will be a two minutes' silence on Thursday at noon to honour the victims of the London bombings last week. Just had the email come round work telling us about this.I can't help asking what this actually achieves. I think a greater mark of respect would be to do something really useful. Set up some kind of project for the good of the community - you could

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Let me out. I don't wanna work any more. I don't care I've got no money, I want out!

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Brian Kilmeade, in his infinite wisdom, published this sensitive and measured commentary on the day of the London Bombs, on his Fox News blog. I'll take his questions one by one, shall I? What should be embarrassing is that terrorism was not even a talking point at the G-8 summit! Global warming and African aid is important, but what about the safety of the western world, on whom all civilization

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...so I've created another website.It's a story I started writing on the train the morning of those big thunderstorms a two or three weeks ago, or whenever they were.It's called The Many Misadventures Of Maximillian Motorhome, only there's not many misadventures up there yet. I'm working on it.Well, it was either type this up or tell you about my friend's memorable stag night in Birmingham on

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They'd already slashed teacher training course durations for both primary (from 2 years to 1) and secondary teachers (from 4 years to 3), but this is very worrying. One of the keys to development anywhere is a solid education system.How the hell do they manage this problem though? They have a shortage, largely because Aids is killing so many. This damages the quality of education children

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I must have been gone to prison in Victorian England in a former life.Your Slanguage ProfileBritish Slang: 50%Prison Slang: 50%Victorian Slang: 50%Aussie Slang: 25%Canadian Slang: 25%New England Slang: 25%Southern Slang: 0%What Slanguage Do You Speak?[via Ah Bugger]

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My friend and fellow joinee Bing has set up a pledge at Pledge Bank for going to free charity donation sites. It only takes a few minutes and costs you nothing, but raises money for charity. I think they work like this: You click on a button on their site, and a page appears with a few adverts on it. The advertising revenue goes to the charity. You don't have to follow links to the adverts or

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This is awful. Explosions on the tube and three buses.BBC NewsSky NewsReuters

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...to realise that if they couldn't agree on Kyoto, then there were still other climate change issues on which they could make progress?Oh well, progress it is. Or rather, progress it appears that it might be...[via BBC News]

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Well, okay, that's taking a bit far, but I went for a drink with yet another old friend I met on the train last week. I used to work in the pub with Catherine, before going to Tanzania. She'd been before, so after having been to rehearsal for the August play, I met her in The Strand pub in Exmouth.We spent the next two hours gabbing at each other overenthusiastically about nothing but Africa and

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via fishboneyardI've now added more crap to my sidebar, right down at the bottom. Here you can see the accurate state of terror alert at all times. Not entirely relevant for a British blog, admittedly, but I still think it's funny enough to tuck into the corner there.

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Someone commented and linked to Evil Flea today, which was very nice of them, so I thought I'd Google "evilflea" and see what came up. Apparently there's some joker called going under the moniker "EvilFlea" who's being posting to all sorts of music sites amongst other things. Git. I thought I was the only one.The guy who linked was A Boy Named GMU. He had been impressed by stylish and yet subtle

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I get to poke fun at Chirac for the second time in three posts. Excellent. *poke poke*I can't wait to hear his reaction.

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Just saw this at the Picture House. Quite poor really. Most of the right ingredients are there - they're just in the wrong place I think. Anyway... Special Effects - yes, they were stunning, but they just weren't that scary. The tripods were too polished, and they had bendy legs (ie not jointed), so they just didn't look realistic enough. If they'd been a bit more worn looking, and had

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...of an old grandparent who can say whatever they like because everybody knows they're on their way out?"Yes dear, I'm sure the food there is dreadful..." Aside: "It's alright, he's only being Jacques. He's from a different generation, he doesn't know any better. He's 86, you know."

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It's not often that I remember an entire dream, but when I went back to sleep at 6.30 this morning for extra hour's kip, I had a very disturbing dream indeed.It started off going and visiting my friend's new house on Zanzibar, which looked remarkably like a typical English semi-detatched, funnily enough. I think it was Ben's house, and I was visiting with Matt and Charlie (they're all friends

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...but this takes the piss. The last train from Exeter to Birmingham on Friday leaves at 17.23. 17.23? What the smeg is that all about? The trains always used to go well into the evening. What the ****'s going on?I'm going up for Russell's stag do on Saturday, but there are no trains early enough on Saturday morning (another surprise - I've caught trains as early as 3.30am before - what's

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Sure, it looks nice, but-WHY?

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"You should go to drama school; sod teaching."So said my brother on Saturday night after watching the closing performance of Inspector Drake's Last Case. Praise indeed. My brothers don't dish out praise like that lightly. Oh no.I'm rather tired now, and need a rest after all that excitement. Which is why I'm delighted to start rehearsals for Don't Utter A Note tonight. Hmmm...

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Anna was at Central Station again on Friday afternoon, and immediately asked me if Julian had texted me."Oh, maybe I shouldn't have said that."I took AS Level Further Maths class with Julian many moons ago, and apparently Anna mentioned she'd seen me. So he asked for my number because he "wanted to wind someone up". Armed with this new knowledge, I naturally asked Anna not to mention that I know

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Watched If... We Stop Giving Aid to Africa on BBC2 last night, and I found the following two articles this morning:Aid 'is not solution' for AfricaAid to Africa 'must be doubled'I must say I am very skeptical about a lot of aid myself, even though I know that Africa won't sort itself out if you just leave it be, as some handwringers might like to claim.The one big question that sticks in my mind

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This time, though, I have no idea who it is. So far I've narrowed it down to:Anyone who doesn't support Manchester United or Everton.Received the first one last night:So how many times have Man Utd won the European Cup then?Naturally, I replied in kind:That would be twice. How many times have Dagenham and Redbridge won the Auto Windscreens shield?The reply arrived not long ago:Dagenham and

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Just been recognised on the train.*pisses self laughing*

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Had a couple of interesting moments yesterday afternoon.Found out that Tim, who plays Inspector Drake in the play, rents from someone I know at work.Then at Exeter Central Station, I bumped into someone I haven't seen since A Level results day, six years ago. Recognised her straight away, and then thought she recognised me too. Then I had one of those "

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A pride of lions has rescued a girl from her kidnappers in rural south-west Ethiopia, according to police.A 12-year-old girl was snatched by four men on her way home from school early in June.A week later, kidnappers were moving her with police in pursuit when three lions encountered the group and chased the men off, local police said.The lions stayed with the girl without harming her, before

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This is just ridiculous, and makes me very angry.

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So says the Exmouth Journal of my performance as the "eccentric and short-sighted Mr Butler" in Inspector Drake's Last Case. Glad my little bribe was appreciated.

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Finally got to meet the lovely Hannah last night; she's the local joinee who owed me a KitKat. Her brother's band (Reeko) were playing their last ever gig at the Cavern Club in Exeter, so I went along and met her there.It was rather hot though, so the KitKat had to be consumed there and then under less-than-ideal KitKat conditions: ie melting and mixed with beer to a punk rock beat. Not my cup

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Like I need to ask:Are you Addicted to the Internet?56% Average@Internet-User.com (41% - 60%)You seem to have a healthy balance in your life when it comes to the internet and life away from the computer. You know enough to do what you want online without looking like an idiot (most of the time). You even have your own Yahoo club or online journal! But you enjoy seeing your friends and going out

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Was so long ago. I remember people ringing us the next day to ask if we were alright. We hadn't even watched the news yet. Clicky on the "ON THIS DAY" bit by today's date above.

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PledgeBank is a site which my colleagues and I have built which lets you tell other people that you will do something, but only if a certain number of other people will promise to do the same.For example "I'll set up a residents' association for my street, but only if four other people will come to my house to talk about it." People then sign up, and the pledge either succeeds, or it times out

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Taddy Blecher must be the first person to have founded a university from a fax machine.Five years ago, from his office in Johannesburg in South Africa, without any university buildings, courses or staff, he began faxing out a letter of invitation to 350 schools. Bloody brilliant. Always nice to see a project like this one.

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If I hear I Will Survive one more ****ing time...

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Read an article at my parents' this morning in last week's Sunday Telegraph Magazine, about Roald Dahl, by his daughter Ophelia. I was always a big Roald Dahl fan when I was little, and find his determination that becoming an adult is not about becoming very serious hits a chord with me.Coming back through Exeter this morning, the Friends of Exeter Cathedral School were holding their summer fete

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Site stats take you to strange places.Recently I've been getting about half my hits from people searching for "kitty cannon" on Yahoo!. Presumably this has affected my rating and is the reason that I now rank #5 in a Yahoo! search for "kitty cannon". Mind you, I must have been pretty high up to start with.Oh well. Click above for the original post.

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Words fail me. They really do.This guy is my idol.

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Unfortunately there are certain specifics that I'm not really supposed to mention in this post, as I believe a certain Hollywood film studio never officially authorised something I can't specifically refer to, even though it clearly won't do any harm to them to mention it, and can only show them in a positive light. But hey, I have the power to get some very nice people in trouble, so this post

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You Are 45% Normal(Somewhat Normal)While some of your behavior is quite normal...Other things you do are downright strangeYou've got a little of your freak going onBut you mostly keep your weirdness to yourselfHow Normal Are You?via Sleepy Chicken

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And it has long been an open secret in the volunteering community that giving up your time to do something you're passionate about can lead to love.What's more recent are the statistics to back this up. In a Community Service Volunteers (CSV) survey last year, young and old alike - one in five 18 to 24-year-olds, and 8% of over-65s - said volunteering had improved their sex lives, especially

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But not for me!Mwahahahahaha!MWAHAHAHA-*cough*-*cough*-*splutter*-*cough*-*retch*

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Well, that was fun. I hadn't bought any music in bloody ages due to financial restrictions, but today the embargo has been well and truly lifted.It started with Joy Division (Unknown Pleasures) and Bjork (Debut) at 2 for £10 in HMV this afternoon, closely followed by Kathryn Williams (Over Fly Over) in Solo Music.The real fun started this evening though. I went with Anthony to Three Fat Fish in

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With 15 million nationwide, the UK's domestic gardens cover an area greater than all of the designated National Nature Reserves in the country, according to the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).And far from just manicured lawns and gnomes, many of them are being transformed into eco-friendly wildlife havens. Dumped are the packets of pesticides, instead it's pots of natural predators, such as

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The UK is crippling sub-Saharan Africa's healthcare system by poaching its staff, UK doctors have warned.With the UK taking over the chair of the G8 in July, there is an ideal opportunity to stop the brain drain from poor to rich countries, they said. Now, why was this never part of the general election's immigration debate, I wonder...?

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Trials of ID cards have revealed problems with the scanning systems central to the project, it has emerged."Biometrics" such as fingerprints, iris images or face scans will be used for the cards but the trials found that not all people could use all the systems.It was harder to scan the irises of black people and over-59s.And some fingerprint scanners did not work with large fingers. Ministers

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Queen Elizabeth II has been asked to "show some teeth" for an official portrait on her state trip to Canada.Award-winning photographer Robert Bray told her: "Big smile - show some teeth... over here - into the camera."The Queen smiled but her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, seemed perplexed by Mr Bray's approach, PA News reported.I'm not surprised he seemed perplexed. Most people prefer him to

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Mary sent this to me.Oh joy. Oh happy day.

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"Tanzania has pulled the plug on a British and German-run company supplying water to the country's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam..."Dar es Salaam's three million residents have increasingly had to cope with erratic supplies and water shortages, which have hit homes and businesses..."Privatisation was a condition of Tanzania receiving debt relief from the World Bank."Bloody World Bank. Yay

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Yes, I'm bored. At work.28 degrees today apparently. And thundery and wet until the end of the week. It's hot and sunny at the weekend though. Aren't you glad to know?

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Not a bad tally so far. Although yesterday's opposition for the part of Nick in Don't Utter A Note was next to non-existant, and in Inspector Drake I got the part of Mr Butler by virtue of someone else dropping out.

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I'm determined to be a bit more positive in my referencing to African stories on the BBC - here's another good community-based project in Ethiopia:"I wasn't expecting to find myself sipping cactus juice when I visited a charity assisting vulnerable young women in the northern Ethiopian town of Mekelle this week."But it is the latest money-earner to help women enjoy a more secure and hopeful

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The early morning National Express coach journey from Exeter on Saturday was notable for two reasons. It started with my first (and only) claim to heroism of the weekend. The driver had the heating set to about Gas Mark 4 (no, shut up; this is serious), and at the back we were quickly starting to cook.So, the woman sat next to me, who was going shopping with a couple of friends, went to try and

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[Email - To: All - THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN THIS EMAIL AND THE ONE THAT FOLLOWED SHOULD BE TAKEN WITH A PINCH OF SALT - I WAS VERY ANNOYED AT THE TIME OF WRITING AND AFTER THESE INCIDENTS GOT ALONG WITH VENDE MUCH BETTER]So, Vende got back on Thursday, and almost immediately he started having a go at me for the apparent reduction in the contents of our YDC resources sack. The fact that it was

Phil Hatchardhttps://profiles.google.com/110099054189265551094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832926.post-1116024168468601672005-05-13T23:43:00.000+01:002005-05-13T23:42:48.476+01:00

"Sir! Art thou wearing space pants? For thine arse is out of this world!!"I have a nice bottom. I'm so proud. I replied that I liked Mystery Complimenter's bicycle very much. Oh, for the frivolities of youth!

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"My what a pleasingly jaunty angle that hat I balanced at!!"Well, that makes no grammatical sense, so I'm starting to suspect that these messages are riddles or anagrams of some kind. Shame I'm no good at crosswords.Joinee Bing is still in the frame. I should find out on Sunday, as she has suggested that she will be present at the joinee juggling in Hyde Park -***BREAKING NEWS***As I type this,

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Yes, I like to end the week with a little whodunnit too.So, who do you think sent me this message to my phone this evening? Answers on a post office in a spraypaint colour of your own choosing. Personally, I know where my suspicions lie. And they lie with Joinee Bing. I should explain my reasoning:Yesterday lunchtime I had my hair cut at A Cut Above on South Street. I left work at 1pm,

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I knew that would happen. SPW finally paid in the cheques I sent them today. One day before my rent comes out. Just as well I had the foresight to shift some more cash from my ISA. Just as my balance was starting to look relatively healthy, too.Oh well, one more month before anything significant comes out, so it should be plain sailing from here until the autumn.

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Krypton Factor 'set for comeback'TV game show The Krypton Factor could make a comeback after the BBC's entertainment head named it as the next TV "gem" that should be revived.The Krypton Factor, which put contestants through rigorous physical and mental tests, was a fixture in the ITV schedule from 1977 to 1995. There's a slightly confusing bit at the end, though:The BBC has also revived classic

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Struggling naming your new band?How about Disturbance Introspection of the Carbonated Leopard, or indeed, Droopy Sticky and the Coupon Greed?Me, I'm settling for Secular Licorice and the Silicone. All I need now are some band members...

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The Maspro Denkoh electronics corporation was selling its $20 million collection of Picassos and Van Goghs, but the director could not decide whether Sotheby's or Christie's should have the privilege of auctioning them.So he announced that the deal would go to the winner of a single round of scissors, paper, stone - the children's game that relies on quick fire hand gestures, where stone beats

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...because it truly has been the worst day I can remember.All the machines had it in for me at work today. First the most important computer in the entire department decided to commit suicide. Yes, that's right. Mine.And I don't mean that in a jokey way - it really is the most important computer.And then the next computer I moved onto crashed too. Many times. It took me an hour just to get into

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Got into work this morning and my computer had committed suicide. Unfortunately, it's my computer that has all the important shared documents on it, so we can't even access most of our work from elsewhere.Then the computer that I'm using now decided to make me struggle for over an hour before allowing me access to email, so by 3pm I had done precisely nothing.Then I spent the next half an hour

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Got my new Empire magazine today. Great cover: Darth Vader breathes at you when you open it.On that note, I've come across a theory about Palpatine and Yes, Minister - via This Blog Will Be Deleted By Tomorrow

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Vote for Lib Dems will not let in Tories - from The IndependentWell, we all knew Tony was making a ridiculous claim with that one anyway......and a dancing car spoof on the Citreon advert - follow the link on X-BAM IllustrationJust pure genius.

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I say let's give people Malaria on the NHS.

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The Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) in Botswana is a vast, arid, yet immensely rich area, which for tens of thousands of years has been one of the chief hunting-grounds in southern Africa for the Bushmen.(...)But there are diamonds under the CKGR - potentially an important source, controlled by an offshoot of the gigantic De Beers organisation.The Botswana government decreed that the Bushmen

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No more new photos, but I have replaced the unintelligible gibberish on films eight and nine with some moderately intelligible gibberish, so now you can enjoy them as they are intended to be. I've tweaked film three slightly as well.

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The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, has taken off on its long-awaited maiden flight.Thousands of aeroplane enthusiasts, many of them clapping and cheering, witnessed the twin-deck "superjumbo" taking to the air for the first time.I was slightly worried about this, watching on the news this morning. I just felt it would crash in a huge ball of flame. That's just the voyeur in me

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...getting the illnesses I was getting there. Common colds are so rubbish, not to mention common.Oh, how I look back with fondness on chronic diarrhoea.Well, at least I have my excuses in for when I run over 90 minutes in the Great West Run on Sunday. And I can even neglect to mention that I haven't been training anywhere near hard, nor often, enough. oops! *furtive glances* phew, i don't

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This was Anthony's first attempt at baking bread a couple of weeks ago (I meant to post this ages ago). His claim was that we had bought "the wrong type of yeast", so it didn't work. Since then we have bought a different sort.However, so far we have been unable to prove nor deny his excuse, as we have not yet performed the task under the same conditions with the new yeast.The world awaits a

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Valentina's story is typical. An old friend offered to bring her to Italy. "He said finding work here was no problem, there were lots of different jobs I could do like working in a supermarket. I'd even be able to continue my studies," she said. "I'd just finished secondary school, but it's very difficult to go to university in Nigeria. It's very expensive." Promises of good jobs and education

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Veteran former Labour backbencher Brian Sedgemore has defected to the Lib Dems.Mr Sedgemore, who is standing down at the election after 22 years as Labour MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch, was known as a maverick backbencher.He accused Tony Blair of "stomach turning lies" and said he wanted to give him a "bloody nose" at the polls.Ouch. Mr Blair won't be happy......Yay!

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...so I won't.Just click on the link.

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I've got one of these up for my Gameshow Night next week. Please click here and fill it in. And remember, it's for charity!

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via New LinksA very funny tale of an idiot in some Internet chatroom who decided to send a virus to one of the other users. He asked the guy to tell him the IP address to send it to. So the other guy obligingly gave Numpty his own IP, with hilarious consequences...

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Four people have been arrested by police after an explosion at a ruling party office in Zanzibar.More than 5 months to go to the elections, and it's already looking very ugly. I hope it doesn't get any worse.

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My head is going to explode. All these poor Masters students are going to get covered in snot, just because they're trying to hand their work in.Yes, that's right.I've got a bit of a sniffle, and in true man-fashion I shall foretell to the world the coming of my premature death. Yay amateur dramatics!Where's me ambulance? No, skip that: someone look in the Yellow Pages under "U"...

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Anthony and I went to the Cavern Club last night, expecting it to be indie night like last week. It turned out though that there was live music instead. When we arrived a band called Clor were playing, and sounded pretty good. They were followed by Tom Vek (which was when Anthony left), who was also very good.However, nobody in the crowd seemed to know what to do. I was in a room surrounded by

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Just uploaded films 8, 9 and 10 to the Bwana Bomba website. There's no description with those ones at the moment - it's just gibberish at the moment, but I'll scrawl some anecdote next to each little group of pictures soon enough. You can, of course, still read the blurb of the first seven galleries. But now... ... I must cook.

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Here's the one about St George's Day (that's tomorrow)Here's the one about an American copJust a taste of the Joinee forum today.

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I changed the banner on this blog last night. I hope you like it. The old one (a picture of lots of the kids in my school in Ihalimba village) is very relevant to the origins of the blog, but it really has very little to do with most of the content I now post.So you've got a picture of me in Ihowanza village instead, getting excited about something Western to read. It's ridiculous, isn't it?

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Nah, I reckon they're more UKIP myself.Or possibly even Veritas...Enter Mary's World

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Now you can all have a go yadda yadda...BBC Radio 1

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We all love him really. He's a wally, but an honest one. I'd have him over Tony Blair any day.BORIS FOR PRIME MINISTER!

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PoliticalSurvey2005.com (via New Links)Very interesting this one - places you on a scattergraph, which hopefully I can reproduce here (click to enlarge). I'm definitely not quite so internationalist as they think though - I agreed strongly we should stay in Europe, because we're better in than out, but I don't really believe it works all that well. This graph shows where your views place you by

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Thanks to Statcounter.com, I can see who visits my site and where they came from.Such as the Canadian who searched for "page 3 girl blog" on Yahoo!, and got this link.Yes, that's right. I come up quite high in a search for page 3 girls on the Internet. Superb.

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So do I. He wasn't being critical the other day when interviewing Kennedy - he was just being a t***. Rather than actually asking questions, he was just interrupting Kennedy with wild accusations and gross exaggerations.Jon Snow, who presents Channel 4 News and is to be honoured at tonight's Bafta television awards, has called for news programmes to treat those interviewed with more respect. -

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I really can't leave it like that now, can I? Here's a more positive story about Tanzania - and it's Selous again:"As rhinos have weak eyesight, they would not spot me, but the real challenge would be to bypass their acute sense of smell. So I solved this problem by rubbing fresh elephant dung on my body and daily refreshed this fragrance."On his first tree stake out, Mr Alpers found the

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Tanzanian villagers are unhappy about the loss of a lucrative hunting contract, which they had been given as a way of solving the perennial conflict between animals and farmers in rural Africa. - from the BBCMore happy stories from Tanzania - it seems that a very effective-sounding community-based hunting deal in Selous Game Reserve has been contracted out to a German company. Woo-hoo. How much

Phil Hatchardhttps://profiles.google.com/110099054189265551094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832926.post-1113922417555075442005-04-19T15:53:00.000+01:002005-04-19T15:53:37.556+01:00

Zanzibar's MPs have passed a bill barring foreigners - including mainland Tanzanians - from working on the archipelago when locals can do the job - from the BBCAn interesting development indeed. Zanzibar is semi-autonomous under the 1964 Union, and every so often the issue of independence comes up. This year is election year too - the last two were marred by violence on Zanzibar, and Benjamin

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