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Misreading blog posts at late hours
Skim reading Dick’s post on the helicopter crash in Afghanistan I stumbled at this sentence: Bono has announced he’s going to Afghanistan to supervise the repatriation of the bodies. Of course I went back up to re-read it, Oh that Bono! Silly me. Time for bed methinks.
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Venezuela plane crash kills 160
Jaysus these things do seem to come in threes, first the Air France crash in Toronto, then Greece, now Venezuela… A Colombian airliner has crashed in a remote mountainous area of Venezuela killing all 160 people on board. The 152 passengers were from the French Caribbean island of Martinique – the eight crew members were…
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Avian flu spreading and now a real threat to Europe
This is getting more serious with H5N1, is it a matter of time before it becomes a human-human strain? And what happens if it does? The first cases of bird flu have been reported in the Chelyabinsk region of Siberia, near the Ural mountains separating Europe from Asia. Scientists don’t yet know whether the deadly…
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Interesting turn of events
Many papers led with an apparent quote from a passenger on the doomed airline, including the Indo this morning – but events have since moved on: Meanwhile police in northern Greece have arrested a man who claimed to have received a mobile phone text message from one of the passengers. Police said Nektarios-Sotirios Voutas, 32,…
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Err another Newsnight Joke
An attractive woman walked into a bar and asked for a double entendre. So the barman gave her one.
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On free Satellite
I got satellite installed last week, and I am quite happy with my decision. It’s not that Sky thing that everyone seems to be getting these days – I decided instead to just grab the stuff that’s going for free from orbit. The satellite dish has two receivers, one for the Astra2 and one for…
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New York releases 9/11 documents
New York has finally released the documents sought by the New York Times: The documents released on Friday include about 15 hours of radio communications between dispatchers and firefighters at the World Trade Center. They also include more than 12,000 pages of individual oral histories compiled by the department in October 2001. The New York…
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Mourners' funeral tribute to Cook
It is sad to see, after the death of Peter Jennings during the week, yet another young life is beind laid to rest. At 59, Robin Cook had potentially decades ahead of him, but his demise was due to the scourge of modern society, heart disease. I met Robin briefly at a New Statesman/University of…
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Newsnight joke
A mother Superior and a novice nun were out for a drive one morning. The novice was behind the wheel and everything was fine until suddenly the Devil jumped out from behind a tree and on to the hood of the car. The novice slammed on the brakes and wailed, “Mother Superior what should I…
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O'Reilly on blogs/newspapers
I never got round to posting on the article in the Sunday Times that generated some comment in the Irish blogosphere. The money quote: In an interview with The Sunday Times, the newspaper publisher dismissed the notion that the print industry was a âsunset industryâ?. âIt is a sunrise industry,â? said OâReilly. âNewspapers are tactile,…
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