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July 31st, 2007 — Global
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Below is a video I took on my Sony W850i of a small section of the flooded A34. The movie does not really capture the depth of the water on the opposite Northbound carriageway.
July 30th, 2007 — Global, Namibia
Having previuosly reached the dizzy heights of being ranked in the top 70,000 with Technorati, I watched helplessly as my rank slipped down to 142,000th. Nothing I could do would stop the rot and down the greasy pole I slid!
July 30th, 2007 — Namibia
The social networking barbarians are pounding at the gates of blogosphere again! Social networks are presently the online uber-magnets and are currently pulling in the crowds.
July 27th, 2007 — Africana
How unoriginal to create a new list here of the Top 50 South African blogs. Why?
July 27th, 2007 — Global
Excerpt from Dawg’s Diary:
8:00 am - Dog food! My favorite thing!
9:30 am - A car ride! My favorite thing!
9:40 am - A walk in the park! My favorite thing!
10:30 am - Got rubbed and petted! My favorite thing!
12:00 pm - Lunch! My favorite thing!
1:00 pm - Played in the yard! My favorite thing!
2:00pm - Celebrated my birthday! My favourite thing
3:00 pm - Wagged my tail! My favorite thing!
5:00 pm - Milk bones! My favorite thing!
7:00 pm - Got to play ball! My favorite thing!
8:00 pm - Wow! Watched TV with the people! My favorite thing!
11:00 pm - Sleeping on the bed! My favorite thing!
July 27th, 2007 — Namibia
African ingenuity is found in funny places across the planet. I came across this stall yesterday at The New Forest and Hampshire County Show. Was very pleased to see the way the bike had been modified. Africa at its best.
[Link:] Tools For Self Reliance.
Instead of pumping a bellows which requires lots of energy, the blacksmith can now have an assistant ride the bike and keep the furnace at the required temperature.
Cool!
[Link:] Tools For Self Reliance.
The New Forest and Hampshire County Show was a quagmire. The heavy rains over the previous two days of the show had turned the ground into mud, a’ la Glastonbury style. What was about to occur at 2:10pm caught everybody by surprise. Including the The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery who were in the main arena doing their fantastic show.
[Link:] The New Forest and Hampshire County Show.
I was soaked to the skin when the heavens opened and dumped a month’s worth of torrential rain on to the area. The rain persisited at full strength for 30 minutes. It was amazing and no wonder flooding has occured here in UK.
July 26th, 2007 — Global
It’s all about the politics and moneygrubbing fatcats who can smell a gullible public. You.
Unfortunately, a lot of disinformation about where Earth’s climate is heading is being propagated by “scientists” who use improper statistical methods, short-term temperature trends, or faulty computer models to make analytical and anecdotal projections about the significance of man-made influences to Earth’s climate.
July 25th, 2007 — Global
July 24th, 2007 — Global
Track where your friends are in the world and pinpoint your whereabouts to them too. Saw this application and have signed up to it. Go check it out.
Meanwhile at Podcaster, Scoble interviews Felix Petersen founder of Plazes. Click on the video.
July 24th, 2007 — Global
Well here is the blooming flower in its glory. Beauty in a pot! The colours are great. I thought I’d chosen a red hibiscus but I was wrong.
[Link:] Hibiscus.
The plant is growing and will be ready to repot before Autumn. I wonder if I should take a chance and replant it out in the garden?
July 24th, 2007 — Global
July 23rd, 2007 — Global
The data you see represented here comes from Monte and Harrison Hieb’s website called Global Warming: A Chilling Perspective
“Of the 186 billion tons of CO2 that enter earth’s atmosphere each year from all sources, only 6 billion tons are from human activity. Approximately 90 billion tons come from biologic activity in earth’s oceans and another 90 billion tons from such sources as volcanoes and decaying land plants.”
“CO2 is odorless, colorless, and tasteless. Plants absorb CO2 and emit oxygen as a waste product. Humans and animals breathe oxygen and emit CO2 as a waste product. Carbon dioxide is a nutrient, not a pollutant, and all life– plants and animals alike– benefit from more of it. All life on earth is carbon-based and CO2 is an essential ingredient. When plant-growers want to stimulate plant growth, they introduce more carbon dioxide.”
“At 368 parts per million CO2 is a minor constituent of earth’s atmosphere– less than 4/100ths of 1% of all gases present. Compared to former geologic times, earth’s current atmosphere is CO2- impoverished.”
“CO2 that goes into the atmosphere does not stay there but is continually recycled by terrestrial plant life and earth’s oceans– the great retirement home for most terrestrial carbon dioxide.”
“If we are in a global warming crisis today, even the most aggressive and costly proposals for limiting industrial carbon dioxide emissions would have a negligible effect on global climate!”
“Earth’s climate was in a cool period from A.D. 1400 to about A.D. 1860, dubbed the “Little Ice Age.” This period was characterized by harsh winters, shorter growing seasons, and a drier climate. The decline in global temperatures was a modest 1/2° C, but the effects of this global cooling cycle were more pronounced in the higher latitudes. The Little Ice Age has been blamed for a host of human suffering including crop failures like the “Irish Potato Famine” and the demise of the medieval Viking colonies in Greenland. Today we enjoy global temperatures which have warmed back to levels of the so called “Medieval Warm Period,” which existed from approximately A.D. 1000 to A.D. 1350.”
Luckily there are a good few people around this planet who can shoot holes, drive double decker buses and supertankers through the claptrap hocus-pocus junk science being force fed to us by both radio and TV news channels, newspapers, websites, politicians, governments and co2 alarmists about climate change.
“Was man really responsible for pulling the Earth out of the Little Ice Age with his industrial pollution? If so, this may be one of the greatest unheralded achievements of the Industrial Age!” Monte Heib, 2006
Here are some more interesting things:
Carbon Dioxide from all coal burning worldwide comprises only 0.013% of the greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere.
“Greenhouse gases” in Earth’s atmosphere also influence Earth’s temperature, but in a much smaller way. Human additions to total greenhouse gases play a still smaller role, contributing about 0.2% - 0.3% to Earth’s greenhouse effect. During the last 100 years there have been two general cycles of warming and cooling recorded in the U.S. We are currently in the second warming cycle. Overall, U.S. temperatures show no significant warming trend over the last 100 years (1). This has been well - established but not well - publicized.
The case for a “greenhouse problem” is made by environmentalists, news anchormen and special interests who make inaccurate and misleading statements about global warming and climate change. Even though people may be skeptical of such rhetoric initially, after awhile people start believing it must be true because we hear it so often.
The idea that man-made pollution is responsible for global warming is not supported by historical fact. The period known as the Holocene Maximum is a good example– so-named because it was the hottest period in human history. The interesting thing is this period occurred approximately 7500 to 4000 years B.P. (before present)– long before humans invented industrial pollution. See graph above.
Are you a believer in the hype? Or are you a Climate Change Denier? Take the Climate Change test here and see just how much you do know.
July 20th, 2007 — Global
A unique and first ever internet based competative reality show called “The Next Internet Millionaire” with 12 contestants competing to win the $25,000 prize will be premiered last half August. The first series will be made up of 14 weekly shows with contestant eliminations occuring each week leading to the finale when the successful winner scoops the $25,000 prize.
Joel Comm, creator of the show speaks here to WebProNews about “The Next Internet Millionaire” to be viewed online which is a task/elimination game in the format of The Apprentice.
In the video below Joel talks to WebProNews about the show.
July 20th, 2007 — Global
July 19th, 2007 — Global
Here is the movie trailer. Back in June I went to see a screening of this movie at the Soho Hotel. I was so impressed that I said here of Jamie Bell:
“to say that Jamie has come of age is putting it mildly. He rocks and clearly relishes the role. In Hallam, he shows us his depth of acting talent and ability to dip into the actor’s toolbox to deliver a winning performance is something I’d expect of an older and more experienced actor. He is wonderful in this role.”
Hallam Foe hits the movie theatres on August 31st. Go see the movie and take three friends with you! If you promise to go and see Hallam Foe and take 3 friends with you, you can go visit Hugh’s site and see what Hallam Foe schwag he has available for you. And I want a lapel badge!
You must go see the movie. Here is a 
linkbadge to the official Hallam Foe blog.
Hallam Foe, a film by David Mackenzie starring Jamie Bell
