Archive for May, 2006



Snakes on a Plane

Snakes!
On!
A!
Plane!

Our emerald isle is not so green, according to a report by the European Environment Agency, which gives the republic bad marks on such things as greenhouse gasses, ozone and municipal waste.

“If it had also looked at rust bucket nuclear power plants, we’d have scored quite high because we don’t have any,” the Minister said, [...]

The hazards of 24 hour news

Guy Goma, an economics and business studies graduate from Congo,was waiting in the reception area of the BBC news building for a job interview. Guy Kewney, editor of Newswireless.net, was also waiting for an interview, but his interview was in front of the cameras to discuss the Apple vs Apple court case. One massive cock-up [...]

In 1996 the British Labour party announced in it’s election manifesto that it would hold a “Royal Commission of Inquiry” into Vivisection. As a result many animal rights groups backed Labour in the 1997 election.
Labour never initiated the Royal Commission, which outraged many, and today Tony Blair has come out and said that he [...]

Shhh

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The Househunt (part 3)

We’re in the home stretch now - the mortgage is arranged, the searches are nearly finished, everything else is in place.
Househunting has been transformed by the internet, gone are the days of pounding the pavement in order to jump through the right hoops in order to buy your home. Our mortgage broker, solicitor and estate [...]