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pmsumner at 10:50pm on 17/03/2003I can see through my bottom windows! YAY! I discovered today (I've only been here 6 months) that my windows open all the way round, so that the outside becomes the inside. So I cleaned the - the bits I could reach easily, anyhow. My - it makes a HUGE difference. I can see through them without a layer of dirt!
Doesn't help that I live on a main street that they get so goshdarn dirty. They're a bit smeared, but that's easily fixed in the sodium glare. Amazing how street lights don't light up anything on the streets, but show up every single dirty spot on your windows.
Went to work for 4 hours, yay. Why yay? Because it made the day go so much quicker. And because I got paid for it! And it made me appreciate today's news so much more.
Today's news in short. UK and US diplomats announced that diplomacy was dead. Jeremy Greenstock scared the bejeezes out of me - his speech at the UN was chilling. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2857983.stm for more info) The way that he took his glasses off and glared, he looked like the Demon Headmaster when he delivered this line:
"The co-sponsors reserve their right to take their own steps to secure the disarmament of Iraq"
In further UK news? Robin Cook, ex-Foreign Secretary and current Leader of the House, resigned from the Government cabinet. His speech was well planned in every way and gave a point by point rebuttal of the reasons given for military action, and reasons for not supporting Bush. The reaction was stunning - a standing ovation, which I think clearly displays the amount of support the anti-war lobby has within the government.
It's interesting, watching and listening to the wranglings here. Never mind the rest of the world. I'd love to see some views from France or perhaps from the other Middle East countries (BTW - What do the countries in the Middle East call the countries to their West? The Middle West? The Far West?). Does anyone know of any decent English language relatively unbiased sources?
I caught Frasier, at long last. Been trying to watch it for ages, but keep on missing it. Nearly missed it tonight thanks to getting far too involved with BBC 2 & Newsnight. This does mean that I'm not going to have a clue what's going on, eh?
Oh, and you all probably noticed - the BBC News site? I love it :)
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a) their site is FULL of spelling and grammatical errors, which they make no effort to correct. they should employ me full time at 20k a year just to correct their mistakes. or employ english graduates instead of morons.
b) they rehash 50% of every new story from old stories. if you read 4 stories on the same issue they are all copied from each other. if prince charles broke his toe tomorrow, they'd tell you how he broke the other toe back in 1983, how it took 4 weeks to heal, and how at the time he said "i'm fine, go away and leave me alone". its the level of irrelevant copying and "fill" that really annoys me sometimes.
c) the great "spudserver" debacle back when i was at uni, when the BBC completely believed for 24 hours some postgrad friends of mine had created a webserver that ran from potatoes. they copy "news" from other websites without verifying it.
apart from this it loads fast (especially in text-only mode) and is generally well laid out. so i keep using it.