Monthly Archives: May 2002

Hippo

Published May 25, 2002

I quite liked this story. Californian fish and game officials found a 500 pound hippo in some guy’s back yard [reuters.co.uk]. Lovely. Apparently you need a permit to keep hippos. I’m a bit disturbed though that they didn’t notice this for about 12 years….

Posted in News
Comments are closed for this entry.

Another

Published May 25, 2002

Another China Airlines jumbo jet has crashed outside of Hong Kong [news.bbc.co.uk]. There seems to be a large number of air crashes happening lately especially in the Asia-Pacific area. I wonder how many air crashes it takes before it stops being seen as the safest form of travel. I wonder if there used to be [...]

Posted in News
Comments are closed for this entry.

Big Brother (again, yawn)

Published May 25, 2002

Well, Big Brother III is upon us, the new set of predictable and somewhat irritating contestants have moved in [news.bbc.co.uk], no doubt they will become five minute celebs afterwards. Tired format? I think so. There’s actually someone from Leicester in there. (Again, I think there was last time too.) Sunita is pretty I guess. The [...]

Posted in Entertainment
Comments are closed for this entry.

Friday Five

Published May 24, 2002

Okay, Friday Five time – 1. What’s the last vivid dream that you remember having? The other day when I was in some kind of future world where there were aliens living amongst us. A particularly nice female alien liked to kiss me and attempt to squeeze the life out of me at the same [...]

Posted in Web and Tech
Comments are closed for this entry.

Happenings

Published May 24, 2002

There are vague reports that India is planning to hold back on the Kashmir incident for two months [news.bbc.co.uk]. Pakistan is also pushing for diplomacy, but meanwhile the troops remain. Odd. Meanwhile, the treaty I mentioned a while ago has been signed [news.bbc.co.uk] which should see a reduction in nuclear weapons in the US and [...]

Posted in News
Comments are closed for this entry.