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My story: Eminem has changed my life

I would like to tell you about my incredible story. It has to do with Marshall Mathers III.This man has changed my life in such a positive way.

Marshall has been an eye opener to me.He has changed me mentally and even physically. Ain't this amazing? It actually is and that's my story. I discovered Eminem in 2001.

At this time I was a rather old fashioned person (old fashioned in so many ways, i mean the clothing, my way of life, everything!). I used to suffer from a lot of inhibitions and I was very hurt inside. Eminem's music has cured me from those inhibitions, it has helped me to humor myself. I managed to work out so many problems I had to face with since my childhood. I can relate to many of his songs. I also used to care a lot about what people could think about me. Marshall 's "just don't give a fuck attitude" has helped me always to speak my mind whatever people could think about me!

All those problems I had inside have disappeared. I have lost 13 kilos and it's all thanks to Marshall. Today, I have a perfect weight and I feel beautiful and balanced.

Marshall taught me never to give up and to believe in myself.

I have written a biography on the talented artist and my biggest dream is to meet him and to thank him in person.

I would like to share my incredible story with the whole world.

Tupac and Biggie brought back to life by Eminem

Ain’t this amazing?

After bringing back to life a teenager thanks to his music a few years ago, Eminem now brings two rap rivals Notorious BIG and Tupac Shakur back to life in one song!

In the track “Running” (Dying to Live) featuring Tupac and Biggie, both rap rivals are rhyming.

The king of rap also used a sampled blues rocker, Edgard Winters, for the chorus.

The beats are built up with piano, violins and bass. A great and authentic masterpiece of work you can listen to on MTV.com.

Eminem is currently working on a future soundtrack TUPAC Resurrection which shall tell Tupac’s life story.

Cronyism and corruption

Paul Krugman is discussing and comparing the Marshall plan with the current plans for Iraq. He accuses the White House of cronyism and blatant profiteering.

Iraq's reconstruction, by contrast, remains firmly under White House control. And this is an administration of, by and for crony capitalists; to match this White House's blithe lack of concern about conflicts of interest, you have to go back to the Harding administration. That giant, no-bid contract given to Halliburton, the company that made Dick Cheney rich, was just what you'd expect.

But no: the authorities promptly shut down the services. Cell service, they said, could be offered only by the winners in a bidding process — one whose rules, revealed on July 31, seemed carefully designed to shut out any non-American companies. (In the face of strenuous protests the rules were revised, but still seem to favor the usual suspects.) Oddly, the announcement of the winners, originally scheduled for Sept. 5, keeps being delayed. Meanwhile, only Paul Bremer and his people have cellphones — and, thanks to the baffling decision to give that contract to MCI, even those phones don't work very well. (Aside from the fact that its management perpetrated history's biggest accounting fraud, MCI has no experience in building cell networks.)

Sunday Tribune

Blogging is a strange thing. Matthew Magee from the Irish paper, the Sunday Tribune, emailed me some questions on blogging for a piece he was doing on blogs.

Low and behold he quoted me in last Sunday's paper. Unfortunately the Sunday Tribune have been constructing their online presence for something like five years so I can't provide a link, but it was a good piece.

Bournemouth

Well that was an interesting weekend. I attended the New Statesman party on Sunday night in Bournemouth, and to those of you interested in politics and the media, quite a few faces would have been familiar.

I had a quick chat with Paul Routledge, Daily Mirror and New Statesman regular, Peter Oborne, Spectator guy, and Tony Benn, former Labour minister. And there was some kind of documentary going on with BBC2 filming assistants to MPs, so I ended up being filmed for a good ten minutes. Argh.

Gordon Browne turned up briefly, I spotted Martha Kearney of Newsnight, Andrew Marr of the BBC and Daily Telegraph, Lauren Booth from the New Statesman, Charlie Whelan, that spin-doctor dude and a host of other people I recognised but didn't know their names.

All in all a good night, I got quite pissed though.

US Air Force B-2 Bomber Drops 80 JDAMS in Historic Test

I am all too familiar with US weapons technology, having been an avid play of flight sims in my younger days. I had actually already done this little test on a flight sim, flying an F22 Raptor, with infinite bombs on.

JDAMs are scary weapons. You could take off, climb to a height, approach the target from a great distance, drop all your bombs and go home. You could even be having coffee before your bombs have hit their targets.

So this story does not surprise me.

The B-2A aircraft, based at Edwards AFB, Calif., flew to the test site and released the 80 weapons in a single 22-second pass. The weapons were released from four Boeing-designed and built "smart" bomb racks, flew their planned flight paths and attacked all 80 targets.

GPS guidance will be the mainstay of all precision weapons going forward - and Europe and China are looking keen to cash in on the technology.

Voxpolitics do

I attended the latest Voxpolitcs do at the US embassy in London last night.

It was a great debate, and a great subject. I especially liked Phil Noble's presentation. An evangelical Dean supporter he definately is - fascinating facts and stories, including when Howard Dean told his mother that he was running for presidential candidate - as Phil noted in his deep southern accent- "His own mamma laughed at him".

Security was tight so no cameras or anything allowed, but I was amazed at the huge number of barriers surrounding the embassy, quite a sight.

We all ended up in a bar afterwards (naturally), and I had a great chat with Jim Ledbetter, a Senior Editor from Time magazine (Europe), my submissions for publication in Time are in the works. If it all works out I will have my name in print in Time - whoda thunk it?

Thankfully I didn't get too drunk - but a great night was had - Ben, Samantha, Jim and Ciaran were the guilty parties. Sam had way too much wine. Ben had alot of Guinness, Ciaran was plastered on Stella, while I was quite drunk on cider. Jim - white wine all night and quite drunk - heads off to LA next week to see the election in action.

New blog

Annette was impressed enough with my weblog to add me to her 4-long blogroll on her brand new weblog. Cheers! Typepad looks good, seems mildly expensive. I'm sticking with MT.

Go over and read the latest addition to the Irish blogosphere! Annette's put more effort into her sidebars than I have....

Another hiatas

I get more and more annoyed with myself - I have been neglecting to blog, and its always on my mind, and I feel bad for not doing it. I am an addict, and I'm not fulfilling my addiction.

My excuse is, of course, that I am too busy. Well that's not good enough. More blogging from now on.

McKenna judgment and Nice

Dick has responded, in depth, as ever...

Just what is so undemocratic about the EU is beyond me. Sure, we all hear about the bureaucrats in Brussels, but all the decisions are made by our elected representatives. The Council of Ministers comprises of our governments while the European Parliament is directly elected. European Commissioners are appointed by our governments who, once again, answer to the people of each state. If people don't like what their government is doing in Europe, they should start voting for someone else. In Ireland that hasn't been the case to date.

Of course you could always make it more democratic by increasing the influence of direct representation. But this would move us further towards federalism, something the euro-sceptics don't want. You can't have it both ways.

If the EU were democratic, it would be accountable and transparent. I do not think it is. Is that fair?

As a voter, I never felt bullied, but I did feel that the government dropped the ball in terms of not explaining what was involved the first time around. As to alleging that the government in some way bought the election, its impossible to uphold. The upshot of the McKenna judgement is that the government can't use state funds to simply promote one side of the argument. Indeed, at the time of the first referendum, it was felt that the government was far too cautious in the light of the McKenna judgement and backed off too far from promoting its point of view. The result was the only voices being heard were those of the naysayers. You can also read the Nice debate another way. From being enthusiastic supporters of all things European, we suddenly rejected Nice. We were asked were we sure about this and we changed our minds. Another way of looking at it is voter turnout, which jumped dramatically with the second referendum. Those who didn't bother to express an opinion on the issue came out the second time around and said they wanted Nice.

As for Prodi's remarks, there's nothing exceptional about them. It's not about forcing people into something, but rather emphasising that you can't cherry pick too much. The EU has been built on compromise. Sooner or later you have to decide whether your in or your out. Each has its own sacrifices.

If you did not feel bullied Dick, that's fair enough, but I know I did. In a roundabout kind of way I was referring to the government decision to send a heavily slanted white paper to every household, at the taxpayers expense, which in my view directly broke the law, as seen in the McKenna judgement. The cost of this white paper did go into hundreds of thousands - but the government had no qualms about pushing the McKenna judgment to its limits. That went hand in hand with dumbing down the powers of the Referendum Commission - I would call that a concerted attempt to move the goalposts prior to the second referendum.

Furthermore that we did have a second referendum could also nullify the idea of having any future referenda at all. What's the point? The only answer Europe wants to hear is yes, and be damned with us fogies who vote no. It has been pointed out that a referendum will be held on the Convention, but I can ask now...why? Even if we vote no, surely such a result will not be accepted, and we will have to do the whole thing again. It makes the whole idea of referenda farcical.

Yes the EU is built on compromise, but where is the compromise when Romano Prodi makes veiled threats against those who fail to follow the France/Germany line? Deciding whether your in out of the EU is not the issue, its how much you want to be a part of it. And that is every country's right.

I would argue that I voted No because I want to stop exactly what is happening in Europe, deeper integration. Integration has gone far enough - and someone needs to say it.

Euro referendum

It seems that I have created a bit of a stir with my comments yesterday on the European Union. Blog Irish picked up on my post and noted:

Gavin's line is a little too close to the Shinners' for out taste, but it is the witless enforcement of "consensus" masking real problems that gives the Adamses and Le Pens their entree.

There are diverse ideas floating around in the Irish blogosphere. Please don't anyone tell Andrew Sullivan.

Interesting that my line appears close to that of Sinn Fein and the Greens while at the same time sounding pointedly Tory. Hm. I am inclined to agree on the consensus issue, it is being enforced, debate is being stifled and the majority of parliaments in the EU dont put important European issues to the people, they just put the treaties through regardless.

Dick O'Brien then notes:

As to how he can say that the EU is undemocratic, I'm not sure. If anything it's too democratic, given the painfully slow pace that things move at. The Nice Treaty is a separate issue from Sweden and the Euro and the Irish double referendum was a bizarre, but not undemocratic exercise. If Irish people didn't really want Nice they would have voted No the second time.

Its true it was a shambles. Used to an electorate that usually voted for anything EU related served up to them, the Government didn't bother explaining much about Nice. Ironically, the debate that should have happened before the referendum, took place afterwards. Holding more than one referendum on an issue isn't unprecedented. We seem addicted to having referendums on abortion and on two occasions, 1959 and 1968 Fianna Fail tried to abolish proportional representation. In this light, the Nice Treaty wasn't much of a travesty.

I had a letter in the Irish Times covering this very topic - the spin from the Irish media was that us xenophobic Irish had made a horrible mistake and we better but things right.

The EU I would strain to call a democracy, simply because of the nature of the hierarchy of power in Brussels. For Nice, a referendum was only held in Ireland due to our consitution, and I am certain were it nor for that the government would have decided for us with no debate whatsoever. No other country in Europe voted on it.

If the EU was democratic would it not either accept the decision of the Irish people in the first instance, or at least adopt the Treaty to satisfy concerns? The reaction of Prodi to the Swede result almost equates to his reaction to Nice - countries who vote no will be penalised - 'you can't be half in and half out' noted Prodi yesterday.

It is really very simple to me, if a referendum is held and the people decide, their decision should be respected. If politicians in Fianna Fail or the PDs had any balls, they would have accepted the decision, rather than a week later saying that the same vote would take place the following year, with the text unchanged.

Dick argues that if we didnt want it we would have voted no the second time. But did he not see the campaign mounted, using large sums of taxpayers money, to shame and bully Irish people to vote yes. And it was that blatant, to me at least. Brussels could not have been clearer - vote no and pay the consequences for dissent. That is not democracy.

With regard to precedents, I dont believe it is fair to compare referenda on abortion - up to a decade apart, each time using different language, to a referendum put to the people, rejected, and then put again unchanged a year later. Entirely different.

I am not a Sinn Feiner, or Green party sympathiser, I have no serious leanings left or right - I do have a thing about respecting democracy. Something the unelected officials in the EU seem not to comprehend.

Health fears over Twin Towers' plume

This is something that could prove worrying. I was at the WTC on September 28 2001, on a holiday I had planned before September 11. I was in the vicinity of the WTC, still smouldering, for quite a number of hours. Might be alarmist, but then asbesthos is a dangerous substance.

The smell was...hm...plasticy in a burning kind of way.

"This was a fully functional building that was completely smulched into a burning pit," says Thomas Cahill, an atmospheric physicist at the University of California Davis, who has focused on the composition of the finest particles in the plume for the past two years.

"That's never happened before, so we are in completely new territory. All we can say is we are worried about it," he says. "It may take years before these effects show up, just like with radiation."

Teen brain changes increase cigarette addiction

Are teens more prone to getting addicted to nicotine than adults? A study reported in New Scientist seems to suggest so.

The team provided teen rats aged about 40 days with nicotine. Others were given nicotine only after they had passed into adulthood, at about 70 days. The rats could help themselves to the drug using a lever system, which when pressed gave them an intravenous shot of nicotine.

"The adolescents took twice as much on a per kilogram basis as adults," he told New Scientist. "Furthermore they continued to administer twice as much when they became adults."

Estonians vote Yes

Of course off the back of a No in Sweden, we have a firm yes in Estonia. I hope the Estonians know what they are letting themselves in for.

With all the votes counted, the Yes side had 66.9 per cent, compared with the No side's 33.1 per cent.

Some 63 per cent of 850,000 eligible voters cast ballots. There was no minimum requirement for the vote to be valid.

The results are being carefully monitored in Latvia, which will hold its own vote on the issue next Saturday. A strong Yes vote in Estonia was expected to boost the arguments for joining in its Baltic neighbour.

During the campaign, opponents of EU membership said Estonia had had too brief a period of independence and would be handing over a large amount of its newly won sovereignty to Brussels. Moreover, they argued, its fast-growing economy - GDP growth has averaged almost 5 per cent a year since 1995 - would be stifled by EU regulations.

Daniel Drezner on blogging

Veteran blogger Dan Drezner gives some advice to new webloggers if they wish to succeed in the world of blogs.

2) If you decide you like blogging, then switch to Moveable Type: Boy, have I been converted. I didn't know what I was missing until I made the switch. Comparing MT to any version of Blogger is like comparing any BMW to a Saturn. Yes, the latter is a fine car (I own one), but the former is much more fun.

I agree, without reservation.

Swedes vote No

So Sweden has voted no the euro. I can't help but admit that I am absolutely delighted.

Yes, your Irish blogger Gavin Sheridan is, for all intents and purposes, a euro-sceptic. Back in my younger days I was a euro enthusiast, loving the ideal of a great and unified Europe, intent on pursuing peace and justice and blah blah blah.

No more; am I not so naieve to believe that.

Europe is a dinosaur, it is an undemocratic shambles. It is an offence to the very idea of democracy. It is a travesty of global proportions. Thank you Sweden for giving a polite two fingers to Brussels.

Speaking as an Irish person, I have never, and probably will never forgive either the Irish government or Europe, for the debacle of two Nice referenda in Ireland.

Holding a second referendum on the Nice Treaty was the final nail in the coffin of my belief in Europe. It also demonstrates to me the very nature of the EU, an axe-wielding megalomaniac.

I am going to put together a coherent post on Europe soon - for now I am happy to gloat.

WTC Photos

Glenn Reynolds decided to post one of the more famous photos from September 11 2001, on the anniversary of that day. Some while back I posted a not-so-famous photo that speaks to me more of the events of that day.

Glenn received quite a bit of stick, not dissimilar to the criticisms I received when I posted photos from the war in Iraq.

It is terribly clear photo and can have a profound affect. Click the link if you want to see it. Natalie Solient links to the same photo over on littlegreenfootballs, and backs Glenn Reynolds in his decision to show the photograph on his frontpage.

WTC Jumper

Kamm on Pilger

Oliver Kamm, now one of my regular reads, writes a healthily long criticism of New Statesman hack John Pilger. It reminds me of this article in the Spectator a few weeks ago.

Despite my own writing for the New Statesman, I am inclined to agree with Sweeney on this one. He argued that John Pilger blames the Americans alone for birth defects in Iraq, and overlooks evidence that implicates Saddam Hussein.

Kamm meanwhile takes Pilger up on the figures of civilian casualties in Iraq. He also I believe, correctly argues that in a war such as the recent Iraqi one, it is in the best interests of the invaders/liberators to limit civilian casualties as much as possible. If they seek to have a peaceful Iraq then it serves them well to kill as few of the people they are 'liberating' as possible.

DSL in Eire

Karlin has returned from Canada, and now she is off to Paris. Does she ever stop? :-)

Interesting that Eircom have dropped the wholesale price of DSL in Ireland for the next three months. It should mean increased takeup.

Pollard is back

Stephen Pollard has redesigned his site and its looking well. The permalinks and comments are to be welcome, I still wouldn't go for the green background myself though.

Blogging

Entries have been terribly scarse from me of late. My lack of serious effort in recent weeks has meant a noticeable drop in visitors comments and referrals.

One gets out of blogging exactly what one puts in. If a blog is not updated regularly, if the posts are poor, if links are lazy, the blog will get its just desserts - no visitors and no readers.

Put work into blogging and you will be rewarded.

Kangaroo with kid

A kangaroo with a kid in its pouch at Fota Wildlife Park, Cobh, Co.Cork.

William Pfaff: Moral choices in Europe

William Pfaff writes a good take on EU expansion, he gives the whole moral argument that was given to the Irish during the Nice Referendum, I dont buy it. If a country in Europe wants to join - let it - once it meets the criteria needed.

This idea that we are doing it for some higher moral sense is balderdash. We are doing it to expand the union for more members, markets and money.

I do like Pfaffs take on the British media...

Moral intensity is a striking quality in the European debate, evident last weekend at the 29th Ambrosetti strategic workshop in Italy, bringing together more than 300 political and business figures, mainly but not exclusively European.

It is a moral consideration that all the rest must be given the opportunity for full membership. If they refuse, it will be their choice. Either way, Europe shall change.

Westminster interview

Had a thoroughly enjoyable discussion with Tom Watson MP, in the lovely surroundings of Westminster Parliament yesterday afternoon.

Tom notes:

He gave me some great ideas about how to spruce up this blog, some of which will get me the sack. If there are any lobby journalists reading this - he's an impressive fellow and could do with some more work.

Haha, well just some suggestions, not that I am any great expert myself. And yes! Hire me! Hire me! :-)

Tom is a politician enthusiastic about technology and crazy about blogging - if only there were more like him. During an hour and a half we did come up with an array of ideas for the weblog, and discussed a variety of issues. I hope I can be of some help in the future Tom.

U.S. delays plan that could deter foreign visitors

The Bush administration has decided to postpone enforcement of new antiterrorism regulations that had threatened to block millions of Western Europeans and citizens of other developed nations from traveling to the United States unless they obtained new, computer-coded passports, according to senior administration officials.

The new passport rules, which were supposed to take effect Oct. 1 and which were mandated by Congress as an antiterrorism measure, will not be enforced until October 2004.

Blogging politics

I will be meeting up with now veteran political blogging MP Tom Watson tomorrow for a chat. I met him briefly before, in a haze of booze and lobbyists. Looking forward to meeting up again, and getting his thoughts on blogging, and the future for blogging politicians.

Venus possibly habitable for billions of years

Heres an interesting story.

Maybe, just maybe, life existed on the planet Venus. A new study reveals that Venus may have had an atmosphere like our own and liquid water for up to 2 billion years, before a greenhouse effect enveloped the planet.

Mars and Venus are the two most likely candidates for life given their proximity to the sun.

Has Meacher completely lost the plot?

David Aaronovitch fisks Meacher in today's Guardian. The Sep 11 theory is ever so slightly off the wall, there are just way too many holes in his argument, and David does a good job of scuppering the whole thing.

Suffocation suspected for greatest mass extinction

The oxygen-starved aftermath of an immense global belch of methane left land animals gasping for breath and caused the Earth's largest mass extinction, suggests new research.

Paleontologists have long puzzled over the mass extinction at the end of the Permian. There is no evidence for a large asteroid impact, but sharp changes in carbon isotope ratios indicate something triggered massive releases of frozen methane hydrates from under the sea floor and in permafrost.

Blair defends EU blueprint

Tony Blair seems to be living under the impression that the EU Constitution is required for the 10 new members to join next year. He is mistaken. All the measures required for enlargement were brought about by the Nice Treaty.

Or at least thats what the Irish people were told in two referenda. No to Nice = two fingers to former communist countries, we were told.

But I'm not so sure. The first result of Nice should have been accepted by Europe, instead it was ignored, and then reheld a year later.

The language of Blair is strikingly similar to that used by European politicians in the lead up to Nice 2. How odd. When Jack Straw was on the Today programme this morning I was struck that his position is exactly that of the Irish government in 2002 - arguing that Nice is *needed*.

But Nice has already been passed in the UK, it never went to referendum. The streamlining he speaks has already been done through Nice. So what is the real motive?

Other People's Sacrifice, Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman looks like he is back in top form again. This piece discusses Bush's recent address to the nation, and what he believes to be the sheer gall of the administration.

Now almost half the Army's combat strength is bogged down in a country that wasn't linked to Al Qaeda and apparently didn't have weapons of mass destruction, and Mr. Bush tells us that he needs another $87 billion, right away. It gives me no pleasure to say this, but I (like many others) told you so. Back in February I asked, "Is this administration ready for the long, difficult, quite possibly bloody business of rebuilding Iraq?" The example of Afghanistan (where warlords rule most of the country, and the Taliban — remember those guys? — is resurgent) led me to doubt it. And I was, alas, right.

Power and Weakness By Robert Kagan

I got this one via Horst, cheers!

Bob Kagan with a very lenghty essay on US-EU relations. I don't have time to read the whole thing now, but it looks great, I will get time tomorrow. It is from June 2002, so was written long before the fallout over the UN resolution.

Meanwhile in the current issue, Frederick Kagan has what looks like another excellent essay on a great topic. How technology has affected our perception of warfare and politics.

Europeans' doubt over U.S. policy rises

An interesting poll in the IHT this week:

The yawning political divide between Europe and the United States that was opened by the war in Iraq has continued to widen, according to a new survey of trans-Atlantic attitudes.

Conducted in June, shortly after the end of the Iraq war, the survey showed Americans and Europeans sharing as their top five concerns: international terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism, the Arab-Israeli conflict and weapons of mass destruction in North Korea and Iran.

Visit to the WNA

I popped along to the WNA Annual Symposium in London yesterday to try and find out more information on nuclear waste. Low and behold who did I meet only former UN Chief Weapons Inspector, Dr. Hans Blix.

And no, no exclusive interview, just a polite and softly spoken - "Sorry I am not doing interviews".

Nice enough guy, shame I didn't get an exclusive!

More UK casualties

A British bomb disposal expert has become the latest casualty in Iraq:

Mr Rimell, who was working for the British-based charity Mines Advisory Group (MAG), was driving in a vehicle with the distinctive MAG emblem when the gunmen struck.

The 53-year-old's bodyguard Salem Ahmed Mohammed was left in a critical condition.

I note that his bodyguard was probably Iraqi, does this show a new level of determination on the part of the attackers?

Arms Fair in London

Gideon Burrows is creating quite a stir here in London on the subject of the Defence Systems and Equipment International arms convention. His article featured as the cover story for this weeks New Statesman. Worth a look.

Naturally, protests are planned against the arms fair, and not just among peaceniks and the anti-capitalist crowd, though both will be out in force. For more than a year, church and community groups in Newham, the borough in which the ExCeL exhibition centre is sited, have been writing to their MP (Jim Fitzpatrick), the Mayor of London and their local council, calling for the arms fair to be cancelled. They would rather £1.5m of government money was spent on improving their neighbourhood, one of the poorest in London. "ExCeL is at the heart of a residential area that was one of the worst-hit areas during the London Blitz, which many of the older residents remember," said Tim Wardle of East London Against the Arms Fair. "We feel that most will be disgusted at what is going on down the road from where they live."

Only Ken Livingstone has said he wants the exhibition cancelled, but has admitted that he is powerless to stop it. The London arms fair is symbolic of new Labour's contradictory approach to arms sales and foreign policy. On the one hand, it claims to be a force for good in the world, and will use military force if necessary to deprive terrible regimes of their weapons. Yet on the other, it is willing to assist the supply of yet more weapons to some of the most brutal regimes, and even to those accused of sponsoring terrorism. Whichever way you look at it, there's blood on their hands.

Your Tax 'Rebate' Pays for Oil

Dan wonders where his tax rebate goes...

Just after receiving his family's $400 check, the "tax rebate" that came to taxpayers with children in the latest Bush administration tax windfall for the wealthiest Americans, a reader sent me an e-mail noting the surging price of energy since Bush had taken office.

NS

My first day at the NS was both interesting and invigorating. Roger was not around today but I will catch up with him tomorrow. Lots of stories for me to write on - if only I had more time.

As I have to contend with a fairly long commute time in and out of London, my blog may suffer as a result. I hope my readers will understand. My best efforts will be put into my weblog, as I always have done - I will build it day by day.

I will try to post to blog throughout the day from now on, and perhaps more in the evening.

Other than that, keep reading!