Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Quote of the Day

“I think in 20 years’ time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all. Because there is now a degree of hysteria about it, fairly unformed hysteria I’ve got to say as well.

Irish Environmental Minister

Predictions Review for 2008

Every year at this time I make predictions for the next year. But before I do I review my predictions from the previous year. This year I was right about 50% of the time. Lower than my usual score of around 60-80%. But a lot of what happened this year surprised a lot of people.

Where I was wrong: Politics. I didn’t think the Dems would win this year because I thought people would be more rational. As bad as Republicans have been, Dems have been far worse. The housing market collapse is largely their fault. That’s been well documented. But people didn’t find out about that until it was too late. And now the Dems have the keys to the kingdom. We’ll see how long that lasts.

I thought Hillary would win the nomination, and she would have except Obama was a wild card. People wanted a fresh face. That’s understandable, but he has a scant resume and has yet to show what he can really do. So far he has done little to nothing. But he has yet to take office.

I was right about the housing market, the government of Pakistan did change, the Writer’s strike lasted as long as I thought, global warming skepticism is growing and the winter was indeed cold.

The one political thing I got more or less right was the Republican nomination process, which was all over the place. No one expected McCain to get it. Huckabee look3ed very strong for a time.

So that was 2008. Not a great year for me. And a lot of other people. My experiences this year were pretty bad, financially. A lot of things did not work out for me. I came up here for a job that never panned out and then the economy tanked. Let’s hope 2009 is a lot better.

Wake Up, People

Perhaps the press is starting to finally get a clue. A little too late, perhaps.

New Watchmen Featurette

Watchmen Exclusive

So far, nothing has made me wince. It looks pretty faithful to the graphic novel. Can’t wait.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Good Riddance 2008

One of the worst years I can remember. Let’s hope 2009 is a lot better for us all.

Space Age Pop Music

This internet radio show has music from the space age. Retro cool.

Monday, December 29, 2008

Launch Date Approaching

I have been busting my hump the last couple of months on a website that I hope will earn me a few pesos. I did the whole thing from scratch and it’s almost ready. I will be announcing it on this blog shortly.

It’s kind of a contest/dating site. Someone came to me with the idea and I put it together for her. We’re pretty excited about it. I just need to finish dealing with some bugs and so on before we officially launch.

I worked all through the holiday and will probably work through New Years as well. So, I have not had a lot of time to blog much.

Stay tuned.

You Might Get Arrested

If you use this shopping bag.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Bureaucracy 101

AGW Tipping Point

In case you didn’t know, I HATE the term Tipping Point. I want to punch whoever came up with it because every poseur on the planet uses it when talking about any name your lame cause.

Yet, this may be the year AGW was pwned, as the yutes say.

Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed, to combat this supposed menace, the tide has turned in three significant respects.

That won’t stop the morons from telling us Christmas lights are killing the planet or some other rot. The politicians will still enact pointless laws, but laws are often enacted and then ignored.

Let’s hope 2009 is the year this beast is killed off.