Mr Mist’s Blog

NYC residents were sent running screaming from their workplaces today after a boeing 747 jet did some low-level flying over the 9/11 zone of terror. But thankfully this was not another terrorist attack on the city. No, instead it was the White House administration team obtaining some publicity shots of the Presidential Jet flying over the “canyons of the city”.

Wow. Someone in that office really goofed there. You would have thought a prudent measure might be to at the very least inform the mayor’s office. Nope.

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By the way it’s all over the news, it would seem that the world is about to end after everyone is stuck down by Swine Flu. We currently have 2 confirmed cases in the UK, who are recovering in a Scottish hospital. Strangely, though, they are not dead, nor are those in the US confirmed with the flu. Still, I for one think it’s time to start panic-buying. I, as usual, recommend panic buying of chicken and related products. On the plus side, the turf is ordered for our new lawn, so assuming we can survive long enough against the Swine flu, I’ll be able to lay that next week.

Yes, lately I have spent my time digging out our back garden, rather than being on here lots. You wouldn’t believe the amount of rocks and misc building materials that I have unearthed. Quite strange.

Also Jenson Button somewhat unexpectedly won this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix, though he did burn his back side in the process, on the car’s massively hot electronics box.

Giant hedgehog.

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Facebook and work clash again as a Swiss woman is fired after being seen active on Facebook whilst off ill from work with a migraine. I think what this story teaches us, amongst other things, is not to befriend complete randoms on Facebook – after all, they might be your manager’s fake spy persona! (You could say don’t use Facebook when you’re off work with a migraine, too, but that’s just crazy talk.)

In other news, it’s a Toyota front row for the Bahrain Grand Prix, with Trulli leading up the pack, and Button starting in fourth place, surrounded by Kers cars.

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A somewhat processional Chinese Grand Prix was taken by Vettel, followed by Webber then Button, to give Red Bull racing their first Grand Prix win, and a race one-two finish.

Vettel led for most of a pretty wet race, with Button taking the lead only for brief moments. After all the diffuser fuss, the team without the split-level diffuser was the victor.

You have to feel a bit sorry for Force India’s Sutil, who came oh-so-close to securing the team’s first points, but unluckily hit some standing water five laps to the end and spun, hiting the wall in a fairly dramatic looking crash.

The race means that Button still leads the Championship, but the gap is closing.

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Brawn’s diffuser design has been ruled acceptable by the FIA appeal court, meaning that the points won by the team and Jenson Button will stand, and leaving the other teams having to consider radical car design alterations to make up the seconds that they are running behind. This now leaves Ferrari, Renault, Red Bull and BMW with some difficult decisions to make over how they will proceed with their cars, but, ultimately, it was the only outcome that could avoid the first races of this year’s F1 season being made a mockery. Luckily it’s a decision that the fans can actually enjoy instead of bemoning how F1 has tied itself up in knots yet again.

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