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Seven and a half billion United States dollars

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

From time to time, we hear that the private sector should do pretty much everything because it is more efficient, more effective, better and so on. While I don’t doubt that there are problems with the public sectors (nota bene plural), there are some problems with the private sector, too.
As I understand it, someone earning [...]

 

One hundred dollar oil

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

It would appear that oil touched US$100 a barrel for a short while because a trader wanted to be the person who made that first trade. Simultaneously, we are told that speculation isn’t driving prices up.
As Mr Eugenides puts it:
twat
xD.

 

Merry Christmas

Monday, December 24th, 2007

I would like to wish a very peaceful Christmas and a prosperous New Year to all the readers of this blog and their families.
xD.

 

Bull semen

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Well, there’s an interesting title for a blog posting.
The BBC World Service had a fantastic edition of its ‘One World‘ programme last Wednesday evening, focussing on the domination of the world by… the Friesian Holstein cow. The argument raised was fairly simple. The Friesian - the black-and-white cow that schoolchildren would probably draw - is, [...]

 

Common Sense and Health & Safety

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

It is probably not an unreasonable fiat to say that certain newspapers - the Mail, the Sun - would regard the Health & Safety Executive as ‘elf ‘n safety nazis. Two recent events give the lie to that position.Common sense is, as we know, not that common. What is obvious to one person is not [...]

 

Flyspray

Friday, November 16th, 2007

I moved from Blogger to Wordpress, I think, reasonably successfully but there was an amount of rewriting code. If anyone sees any errors, omissions, glitches or annoying things that they’d like to kvetch about, feel free to post here. I’d be very grateful.
xD.

 

Hello

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Congratulations on finding davecole.org. I will be migrating my blog from unoriginalname38.blogspot.com to this site in the near future. In the meantime, please visit unoriginalname38.blogspot.com

 

Hello world!

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

 

Gingerbread haka

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

The New Zealand Bakery of the Year Contest (words I never thought I’d write) has gingerbread men doing the haka. It’s wonderful, even if slightly cute gingerbread men doing a throat-slitting action disturbs me.
xD.

 

Bong…

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

In some ways, I am incorrigibly British and I have the great good fortune to live within hearing distance of Big Ben. I was delighted to hear last night, for the first time since August 11th, the sonorous chimes on the hour. The sound of Big Ben and the Shipping Forecast are, I would go [...]