It must be fairly obvious that this blog admires the pioneering spirit and is currently following the adventures of Jessica Watson in her round the world voyage on Pink Lady. It’s the Edmund Hillary principle and surely this is what…
Author: James Higham
The boy who asked why
Marriage is the union of two people for the purposes of procreation – end of story
The only legitimate definition of marriage Dave Cole is a fine upstanding chap from the other side, so to speak and he ran a youtube, the gist which was that an 86 year old WW2 vet was asked a question…
My next car – Rolls Royce ghost
Well, it’s age you know. Maybe I’ll need to trade in [part ex] the Vanquish. Here are some pics of the new marque, courtesy of The Age: And here are some specs. Now, I’ll have to nip down the bank…
Late evening listening – Dearieme at it again
Eva Taylor [remember her in her 90s, some weeks back?]: Is you ain’t or is you ain’t? From me – Kid Ory:
Virginity – waiting for the right one to come along
She may have been intimately profiled by Annie Leibovitz in Vanity Fair but she claims she was a virgin up to her marriage and I say good luck to her. Why not? Contrast her intelligence with the chavs and other…
Cold calling – breaking down the barriers
Do check out the new Economic Voice layout – it seems vastly better to me and is more accessible now. One of their first posts is on Cold Calling, with the news that: The US Investment management company Edward Jones…
Net neutrality – there are arguments on both sides
Allowing broadband carriers to control what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the principles that have made the Internet such a success. —Vinton Cerf in testimony before Congress February 7, 2006 The issue of net neutrality is not…