Got an iRobot Roombah for mum.
Mum thinks its great, cleaning up the lounge floor rather well. Unfortunately, it seems to have taken a perchance to humping the base of our fan. Which results a
quite a bit of a racket.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Support Georgia against Russian Invasion!
Russia decided to invade Georgia on the day opening day of Olympics.
Support Georgia!
Support Georgia!
Monday, February 27, 2006
Blackburn 1: Arsenal 0
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Ken "The Arrogrant " Livingstone
Imagine this scenario in London, or any other big major European city.
A Muslim reporter was covering a civic event celebrating some gay member of parliament coming out in the open at city hall. Several gay guests left the event and was interviewed by the reporter on how the evening went and even poised for pictures.
The mayor comes out and was also asked by the reporter how the evening went. The exchange goes something like this:
Reporter: Evening Mr Mayor, so how did the event go?
Mayor: What are you? A Taliban spy? And al Qaeda operative?
Reporter: Actually Mr Mayor, I am moderate law abiding Muslim and I take offence at being spoken to in this manner.
Mayor: Ah yes, so were you in one of those terrorist training camps? Are you a terrorist or a trained suicide bomber? You blow yourself up because you have no life and is unable to fit into normal society?
First of all, imagine the demonstrations that will take place because of the mayor’s remarks. Everyone in the mayor’s office advises him to apologise and put the matter behind him. Even the prime minister calls him to apologise but he refuses to.
And instead of apologising, he goes on and insists that the reporter was being rude and pushy and goes on to attack the newspaper that the reporter was working for and launch a personal attack on the reporter.
How would that go down the Muslim community? Not very well I guess. We may have another protest similar to that caused by the Danish cartoons. We may even end up with riots similar to the ones seen in Paris.
So back to reality. Something similar to this has happened, and its was the mayor of London calling a reporter a German war criminal and when the reporter clarified that he was Jewish and took offence, the mayor went on to call him a concentration camp guard.
It all came out in the national newspapers, and everyone from Tony Blair to his own London assembly unanimously called on him to simply apologise and put the incident behind him and he simply refuses to, instead demanding for the reporter to apologise for the “rude and vulgar manner” in which he tried to interview the mayor.
Unfortunately, everything was caught on tape and the reporter was not speaking to the mayor in any rude or offensive manner, but it was in fact the mayor that was being very rude and offensive on tape.
Now, after almost a year of him refusing to apologise and his stubbornness on insisting that he had done nothing wrong, the disciplinary panel has found his conduct to be less than acceptable of a mayor of London and has suspended him for 4 weeks.
However, the mayor still remains defiant and insists that he had done nothing wrong and together with his cronies are insisting that as an elected official, he can not be removed from office or suspended from office by a panel that was not democratically elected. He thinks only the electorate has the right to suspend him from office and now he is about to launch an appeal.
After so much negative media attention, he still refuses to accept the fact that what he said and did was not appropriate and insensitive and now he is challenging the disciplinary procedures, insisting that only the electorate is able to ban or remove him from office.
I am so sorry Mr Livingstone, but last I recalled, none of the judges are democratically elected. They are appointed to melt out appropriate corrective measures or punishment to those that have broken the social rules we call Laws.
Just because you were elected by us does not mean that you are above rules and regulations of your office. Even if Tony Blair broke the law, he would have been subjected to the judiciary, and a simple “ I was elected by the people and only the people have the mandate to remove me from office” does not quite cut it.
Unless, you are suggesting that every time a complaint is made against you, the people (us) get to vote if we find you guilty or innocent and we get to vote on your punishment.
Be a man, admit your mistakes and move on, or sure as hell exists, you are no longer going to get my vote in the next mayoral elections.
A Muslim reporter was covering a civic event celebrating some gay member of parliament coming out in the open at city hall. Several gay guests left the event and was interviewed by the reporter on how the evening went and even poised for pictures.
The mayor comes out and was also asked by the reporter how the evening went. The exchange goes something like this:
Reporter: Evening Mr Mayor, so how did the event go?
Mayor: What are you? A Taliban spy? And al Qaeda operative?
Reporter: Actually Mr Mayor, I am moderate law abiding Muslim and I take offence at being spoken to in this manner.
Mayor: Ah yes, so were you in one of those terrorist training camps? Are you a terrorist or a trained suicide bomber? You blow yourself up because you have no life and is unable to fit into normal society?
First of all, imagine the demonstrations that will take place because of the mayor’s remarks. Everyone in the mayor’s office advises him to apologise and put the matter behind him. Even the prime minister calls him to apologise but he refuses to.
And instead of apologising, he goes on and insists that the reporter was being rude and pushy and goes on to attack the newspaper that the reporter was working for and launch a personal attack on the reporter.
How would that go down the Muslim community? Not very well I guess. We may have another protest similar to that caused by the Danish cartoons. We may even end up with riots similar to the ones seen in Paris.
So back to reality. Something similar to this has happened, and its was the mayor of London calling a reporter a German war criminal and when the reporter clarified that he was Jewish and took offence, the mayor went on to call him a concentration camp guard.
It all came out in the national newspapers, and everyone from Tony Blair to his own London assembly unanimously called on him to simply apologise and put the incident behind him and he simply refuses to, instead demanding for the reporter to apologise for the “rude and vulgar manner” in which he tried to interview the mayor.
Unfortunately, everything was caught on tape and the reporter was not speaking to the mayor in any rude or offensive manner, but it was in fact the mayor that was being very rude and offensive on tape.
Now, after almost a year of him refusing to apologise and his stubbornness on insisting that he had done nothing wrong, the disciplinary panel has found his conduct to be less than acceptable of a mayor of London and has suspended him for 4 weeks.
However, the mayor still remains defiant and insists that he had done nothing wrong and together with his cronies are insisting that as an elected official, he can not be removed from office or suspended from office by a panel that was not democratically elected. He thinks only the electorate has the right to suspend him from office and now he is about to launch an appeal.
After so much negative media attention, he still refuses to accept the fact that what he said and did was not appropriate and insensitive and now he is challenging the disciplinary procedures, insisting that only the electorate is able to ban or remove him from office.
I am so sorry Mr Livingstone, but last I recalled, none of the judges are democratically elected. They are appointed to melt out appropriate corrective measures or punishment to those that have broken the social rules we call Laws.
Just because you were elected by us does not mean that you are above rules and regulations of your office. Even if Tony Blair broke the law, he would have been subjected to the judiciary, and a simple “ I was elected by the people and only the people have the mandate to remove me from office” does not quite cut it.
Unless, you are suggesting that every time a complaint is made against you, the people (us) get to vote if we find you guilty or innocent and we get to vote on your punishment.
Be a man, admit your mistakes and move on, or sure as hell exists, you are no longer going to get my vote in the next mayoral elections.
Friday, January 06, 2006
RPMI 1640, GIBCO
I use RPMI 1640 media from Gibco all the time for my cell cultures.
Now I finally figured what all these alphabets means.
RPMI= Roswell Park Memorial Institute. Now no longer existing. Wonder if the Aliens that landed in Roswell were the ones that taught them how to make media to grow uman cells in vitro? Scary if true. Wonder what the aliens were doing with growing human cells.
GIBCO= Grand Island Biological COmpany. Nothing special. Merged, Acquired, Taken Over, blah blah blah, typical pharma and now part of Invitrogen.
Dont know what 1640 thought, just know that is one version advanced of 1630. Maybe just go buy lottery with these numbers.
Now I finally figured what all these alphabets means.
RPMI= Roswell Park Memorial Institute. Now no longer existing. Wonder if the Aliens that landed in Roswell were the ones that taught them how to make media to grow uman cells in vitro? Scary if true. Wonder what the aliens were doing with growing human cells.
GIBCO= Grand Island Biological COmpany. Nothing special. Merged, Acquired, Taken Over, blah blah blah, typical pharma and now part of Invitrogen.
Dont know what 1640 thought, just know that is one version advanced of 1630. Maybe just go buy lottery with these numbers.
Monday, October 24, 2005
Cows and Moo
A TRADITIONAL CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
You are surprised when the cow drops dead.
A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and
produce twenty times the milk.
You then create clever cow cartoon images called 'Cowkimon' and market them
World-Wide.
A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk
themselves.
A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Both are mad.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don't know where they are.
You break for lunch.
A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim full employment and high bovine productivity.
You have the newsman who reported on the numbers arrested.
AN INDIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You worship them.
A MALAYSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You signed a 40-year contract to supply milk at RM0.06 per litre.
Then midway through, you raised the price to RM 0.60 per litre or you cut
the supply.
The buyer agrees to the new price, you change your mind again and now want
RM1.20.
The buyer decided you can keep the milk and they go look for milk that
comes from recycled cows or the cow urine instead.
Your two cows retire together with the Prime Minister.
A SINGAPOREAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
One cow-peh and one cow-bu
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
You are surprised when the cow drops dead.
A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and
produce twenty times the milk.
You then create clever cow cartoon images called 'Cowkimon' and market them
World-Wide.
A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk
themselves.
A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Both are mad.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don't know where they are.
You break for lunch.
A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim full employment and high bovine productivity.
You have the newsman who reported on the numbers arrested.
AN INDIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You worship them.
A MALAYSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You signed a 40-year contract to supply milk at RM0.06 per litre.
Then midway through, you raised the price to RM 0.60 per litre or you cut
the supply.
The buyer agrees to the new price, you change your mind again and now want
RM1.20.
The buyer decided you can keep the milk and they go look for milk that
comes from recycled cows or the cow urine instead.
Your two cows retire together with the Prime Minister.
A SINGAPOREAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
One cow-peh and one cow-bu
Monday, October 03, 2005
Bird--> Worm, Mouse --> Cheese?
The early bird catches the worm. Or so the saying goes.
Then what about the worm? The early worms gets eaten? (Maybe the late ones die anyway under the feet of little school children stampeding during recess)
Okay, worm not too smart a creature, so I guess we dont have to ponder about it too much.
What about mice? Mice are smarter than worms. They have a brain and its pretty well developed. Possibly more than that of a bird. After all, no ones calls a dimwit mice brain but its always bird brain.
Okay, so we go back to the slightly higher creatures here.
Does the saying still holds true? Being first is always the best?
Somehow, I don't think so. The picture should have suggested a sufficent example.
The early bird may get the worm, but its always the second mouse that gets the cheese.
Then what about the worm? The early worms gets eaten? (Maybe the late ones die anyway under the feet of little school children stampeding during recess)
Okay, worm not too smart a creature, so I guess we dont have to ponder about it too much.
What about mice? Mice are smarter than worms. They have a brain and its pretty well developed. Possibly more than that of a bird. After all, no ones calls a dimwit mice brain but its always bird brain.
Okay, so we go back to the slightly higher creatures here.
Does the saying still holds true? Being first is always the best?
Somehow, I don't think so. The picture should have suggested a sufficent example.
The early bird may get the worm, but its always the second mouse that gets the cheese.