Random Musings - Day #170

In Trinidad and Tobago, it is Labour Day, which to any other North American is absolutely weird as it's on a Friday. Granted that unlike their American and Canadian friends, Labour Day is fixed on a date (June 19).
There was some parade down south of San Fernando that blocked the local traffic. My cousin that drove us around got pulled as he overtook him just before
coming off the junction. The policeman didn't like saying that we cut him up. But he was riding his motorbike slowly. There were words exchanged and he rode off. If it were the UK, the policeman would probably try to charge him for dissent.
Also passed a hotel with cool name, the 'Do Drop Inn'.

SWAT stands for Special Weapons And Tactics.
When someone was singing the line from Valerie, "Why don't you come over...", I sang back, "Why don't you come over to my place. Hey you we're having a wimpy." Strange how I remember an old advert.

Random Musings - Day #36

So the UK interest rate is down to a paltry 1%. This means savers will get a maximum of 1% interest. You can't save squat, might as well spend it... Oh let's all go buy a house for a laugh! However, the flip-side is you can borrow pretty cheaply now.

Be careful of hotels. Apparently some hotels are being targeted in an old fashioned phishing attack... That said, it looks like it fallen under the radar of the most popular anti-virus/malware companies and fraudtip weren't available for comment. Pinch of salt?

Well hopefully winter is going to go away soon. But why fight it? Certainly in North America, you've got the start of Winterlude in Ottawa tomorrow for 3 weekends and then if you can get down Miami, there's the Winter Music Conference. While we are at it here's a good guide of things to do, clubs, bars and more at Hype1 (which is not to be confused with an energy drink called hype).

Look out for a remix of Cafe Del Mar vs Nelly Furtado of "Say it right"

Tictac are your real winners of the fourth round of the FA Cup. Due to no fault of their own, they and Volkswagon replaced the goal that saw Everton past Liverpool.

In case you are wondering here's the way to turn off the sounds for yahoo messenger within yahoo mail.

Random Musings - Day #13 & #14

I was off in Taunton in Somerset on work assignment and was pretty much away from the computer. Well at least I wasn't able update the blog. Stayed in a travelodge which is in the middle of nowhere, 2 miles from the town centre. Next time, suggested hotels to stay in town (and apparently they are not many of them) include the Corner House hotel, the hugely luxurious Castle hotel and Lowden's House. That reminds me, a useful guide for looking up UK hotels that I use is Smoothhound

It didn't dawn upon me that we could have gone to Taunton racecourse, the following day (15th). And also passed the Somerset county cricket club a few times. Where the likes of Sir Ian Botham and Sir Viv Richards played their county cricket.