Random Musings - Day #22

The people are friendly in Liverpool, at least at the place I was working at. I was told about the interesting fact that the young ladies like to go out on the weekend mornings in their pyjamas. Presumably not changing from the previous night's activities. In fact, this actually started in Ireland/Northern Ireland

I've always wondered what happened to Gordon Burns, especially with the reemergence of Britain's toughest game show, The Krypton Factor. Well, I was slightly surprised to find him presenting the regional news on BBC 's North West Tonight. Good for him! Anyways he presented the following article...

I have always had a few reservations about the US Immigration but it looks like the Canadian authorities have gone one better. They threw out a Brit for being disabled back to Manchester. Arguably, the British man was there illegally at some point. But if you read the bottom of that article, it states: "The Immigration Act frankly prohibits people with disabilities from immigrating to Canada," said Laurie Beachell of Disabled People's International. "The effect would mean people like Stephen Hawking, world-renowned physicist, brilliant man, could never become Canadian."
Lovely...

Microsoft cuts 5000 jobs! It's doom and gloom as the credit crunch/recession/whatever you want to call it appears pwning everything!

Sport is also being effected. Troubled insurers AIG are not renewing their sponsorship for the Manchester United team shirt. A few other premiership sides have suffered as well notably West Ham, Newcastle and West Brom still have no shirt sponsor!
Also feeling the pinch is horse racing as Essex course, Great Leighs closed last week and see the last remark as Ricky Hatton and his camp seek to fight in the UK rather than the states due to the declining pound.

Back to football and it looks like the TV rights are going to go down the music industry route as the premiership look to stop the Internet pirates from streaming their football games. There are a number of sites that do this already, so no surprise the Premiership are screaming as the big pockets are getting picked. boo-hoo-mr-magoo!

Random Musings - Day #18

The best way to get Peterborough from the south is the M11 not the M1. Old town Towcester is in Northamptonshire.

The legendary artist/uk tv presenter Tony Hart, 83 died today. Famous for his gallery and Morph.

I'm so easily amused, there is a television advert for comparethemarket.com with a well-dressed meerkat who is pleading don't get confused with comparethemeerkat.com!

Carnival time almost upon us. It's unfortunate they occur at the same time but there is the carnival in Rio and Trinidad.
There is always something happening before the carnival but in Rio, the actual carnival gets into high gear on the Saturday (Feb 21) and winds down on 'fat' Tuesday (Feb 24).
Another guide comes from the girl from ipanema. Whilst in Trinidad, the carnival itself is on the Monday and Tuesday. There are a number of fetes including Insomnia on the Saturday before. Although 2009 will unfortunately be the last one. A nice blog about mas is supplied by saucy. Other good sites include Trinisoca and Toronto-Lime. Yes, Toronto! Toronto does have a decent West Indian community. Anyway that site has events (in Toronto), songs and charts. Talking of events, here's a list of fetes in Trinidad.

It looks like I'm on Setanta Sports has turned into Special 1 TV.

Lady GaGa is once again #1 in the UK for a second week. Kid Cudi is at #2 with "Day'n'Nite". James Morrison/Nelly Furtado at #3 with "Broken Strings".

The special one...

Evidently, we seemingly still miss Jose Mourinho and his wit that Setanta have brought him for "I'm on Setanta Sports". It's funny as hell. The following video is the special one's debut...



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