pub

A simple gathering tonight at the pub - One large table, a selection of fast food and a few drinks.

At one point today I'd considered giving it a miss, as a consequence of not actually getting home until about 01:30 and then getting up at 06:00 today.

In the event I joined the gang and sipped some coke.

meza

Stumbling out of Meza well after midnight on knowing that I'd got to be somewhere for 8am and that I still had to go home was a small dilemma I've just experienced. Still we had a good evening, helping Alex have a bit of a celebration. And to my surprise I'd managed to get to Wardour Street first, even past the messy roadworks of Soho.

Of course, this part of London was still in full zing at that time of evening and the dinging tricycles were out in force.

two princes

A few of us joined the throng at the Concert for Diana hosted by Wills and Harry in Wembley. My first visit to the new stadium and I did wonder about the security and delays as a consequence of the recent London Mercedes-bomb attempts around Haymarket. As it turned out, although there was strong security, the event was fairly easy to get into and a good afternoon and evening of entertainment.

Mainly mainstream acts, and with a strangely American segment at presumably a key time for overseas markets, it was a fun and sunny way to spend Sunday afternoon.

We started sitting towards the back of the stadium, in what we later discovered were the wrong seats. The place we moved to was much nearer the front and directly under the seating of the Princes. We also had Jamie Oliver, Jules (Jamie's wife) and Alan Kerr from the Friday Project as nearby seating companions.

There will be more on Christina's site, where I'm told some of the acts get a mention too.

free iphone

The Brits are sometimes accused of queuing for things, but not to the extent of the reported lines for the iPhone, now freely available on 5th Avenue's Apple Store.

There's no tariffs for the UK yet, so the above hastily created rashbre central replica can join the throngs of cutouts from Gizmodo and the eBay auctions. Enjoy impressing people in your local high street this weekend by holding this free cutout model to your ear and talking.

a question of balance

Some things just look wrong.

Today, I snapped this familiar sight to City workers in central London. Its a building which is being carefully demolished floor by floor and is now at the delicate stage with most of the lower levels out but the upper ones still in place.

Its going to be replaced with a stylish glass pyramid structure, but at the moment looks slightly precarious standing next to the famous Lloyds Insurance building.

anywhere in albion

Pete wearing Kate's dress.

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Tone Down

Today we see the end of the Tony years and the start of the Brown Year. For a few minutes today we were Prime Minister-less, whilst the complicated protocol between Downing Street and Buck House took place. Why the two guys couldn’t share a ride and show up together is a question we shouldn’t ask. And it’s not as if the Queen would be surprised about it – or maybe she doesn’t watch telly?

Georgie had a few things to say too, I noticed. He seemed to use negatives more than absolutely necessary. Why say something about the rumours were not true about Tony being his pet poodle? And that Gordon was not a dour Scotsman? If anything is guaranteed to ensure that everyone has heard both of these wisecracks it would be the through the global broadcast of a world leader. Oh well.

Will Gordon get to have an ‘s’ on the end of Year? We shall have to wait to see…

bigfoot

With all the talk of muddy footprints over the last few days, I thought it would be interesting to do some footprint detection of my own.

I started with the big footprint of Prince Charles. That's Carbon footprint, which he quotes as the princely size of 3,421 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide. Quite a lot. A Ford Mondeo weighs 1.5 tonnes. So that carbon footprint is around the weight of 2,280 cars, or 6.25 cars weight of CO2 per day.

I separately calculated rashbre central's output, which is roughly one per cent of the Prince's figure, including all of rashbre central's travel and air mileage.

This makes me wonder if its actually understated for the Prince, who doesn't seem to mind using helicopters and chauffeured cars driving in parallel to his own train journey.

Next, I looked at the cost, for rashbre central of creating some sustainable forestry as a full offset. I selected reforestation of a small part of the Great Rift Valley, in Kenya, where a modest sum can fully offset the CO2 emission. At one level, being thoughtful can help reduce the original number(lights off etc), at another level, doing something in an area where the money makes a big difference can create a personal offset.

So do you want to have a look at your own carbon footprint profile? its right here

And the science part? A litre of gasoline(petrol) weighs around a kilo. 87% is carbon and the rest hydrogen. When the gasoline burns, the carbon fuses with oxygen (atomic weights 12C+16O+16O= 44CO2 or 44/12=3.7x as much), so the weight of the litre of gasoline becomes 87% of 3.7 times as much in CO2 emission terms (3.2 times as heavy).

glastonbury mud

I've been helping get photos loaded across on Christina Nott's website this weekend, courtesy of the Glastonbury mud.

They seem to be mainly mobile phone shots and I've tried to link them to the posts appearing at this year's musical mud-fest.

From what I can see, and have heard, it seems to be an excellent event.

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laser or sonic?

Dr Who's Nemesis is the detective from Life on Mars. As the current episodes also have Captain Jack from Torchwood, its a bit of a time traveller fest. Add the current Dr Who assistant and as the Master remarked in the last episode, all demographics are represented.

Tonight's episode featured a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom with a sketchy past presiding over the end of the world, whilst being initially bossed around by President of the United States. Obviously fictional.

Things get out of hand when the Prime Minister uses his big balls and then his laser screwdriver to overpower the mere sonics of the Doctor. I shall have to remember to record next week's episode so that I see then end of the series.

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nott my picture

Christina has sent me a few emails with Glastonbury photos to upload to her blog. Unfortunately, the password I used when I set up the blog seems to have changed and I shall have to wait until I get a text or email with the right information. In the meantime, I am reliably informed that it is quite muddy.

I shall wait for Bjork to be on BBC4 at 00:40UK.

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"I'll take it from here"

I've no idea whether it will be any good or not, but I expect I'll see 'Die Hard Four' or whatever its called.

Cyber attack on the United States with analogue hero Bruce no doubt speaking a few choice 'Bruce-isms".
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"You just killed a helicopter with a car"..."I was out of bullets".
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"Why'd you bring a cop into my command center?" ... "command center? its a basement."

And launch date on 4th July, of course.

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