The happy birthday song

The happy birthday song/ by Arrogant Worms

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30 Days Of Me - Day 16 - Another picture of yourself

Mud bath in Turky last year.
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Blog Action Day - Water

Today 15th October 2010 is Blog Action Day. According to Change.org

"Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking a global discussion and driving collective action. "

This year, Water as a valuable resource is picked as the theme. Why?

"Right now, almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water. That’s one in eight of us who are subject to preventable disease and even death because of something that many of us take for granted.

Access to clean water is not just a human rights issue. It’s an environmental issue. An animal welfare issue. A sustainability issue. Water is a global issue, and it affects all of us."

Water. It might be something you take for granted; it might be something you struggle for. Lack of it might cause your crops to fail, too much of it might wash your house away. Perhaps you make your living on the waters, or perhaps you live landlocked or dry country. Whatever your circumstance, water affects your life.

Please take some time to watch this video called HOME

20% of the world’s population consumes 80% of its resources
The world spends 12 times more on military expenditure than on aid to developing countries.
5,000 people a day die because of dirty drinking water.
1 billion people have no access to safe drinking water.
Nearly 1 billion people are going hungry.
Over 50% of grain traded around the world is used for animal feed of or biofuels.
40% of arable land has suffered long-term damage.
Every year 13 million hectares of forest disappear.
One mammal in 4, one bird in 8, one amphibian in 3 is threatened with extension.
Species are dying out at a rate 1000 times faster than the natural rate.
Three quarters of fishing grounds are exhausted, depleted or in dangerous decline.
The average temperature of the past 15 years has been the highest ever recorded.
The ice cap is 40% thinner than 40 years ago.
There may be at least 200 million climate refugees by 2050.

Unless we do something now we will not survive, the Earth will but with out us. 

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Friday Fun - Father Ted meets the Pope

One for the Father Ted Fans;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andycatlin/4995872040/in/pool-1338400@N20/

Not sure His Holiness will get the joke...



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30 Days Of Me - Day 15 - Put your iPod on shuffle

I don't have that much music (about 35Gb), I only have a 16Gb iPhone so I have to be selective in what I put on it. So what is on it is stuff that I like to hear.

First 10 songs that play

1. Led Zepplin - Nobody’s Fault But Mine 
2. UB40 - The Road 
3. Jethro Tull - Hunting Girl 
4. The Police - King of Pain 
5. Meat Loaf - What about Love 
6. Gabriel Fauré - Pavane in F-sharp minor, Op. 50 
7. Motörhead - City Kids 
8. Led Zepplin - Kashmir 
9. Jethro Tull - Crew Nights 
10. Saxon - Wheels of Steel 
11. Bob Marliy & The Wailers - One Love – People get Ready 

Ok so it is not the first 10 but 11. I had kept in Bob Marliy in.

By the time I got to number 5 I was thinking what a load of depressing music. But the rest lifted me and I did not think it was so bad.

I was surprised that Queen did not get in, but I could say the same for Pink Floyd since I have more of a collection of them.

I usually listen to 'Adam Curry's Daily Source Code' he plays the music I would like to hear on the radio.

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30 Days of Me - Half way point

This is the half way point of this little series of blog post's.

Most of the posts have been prepared by now and just need a look at.

If you look at the times of them being published you will see that most are set for 01:00 in the morning. I am asleep at this time and have been scheduled.

Enjoy the rest of the series.

I have learned a few things about blogging, which I will try to detail later.

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30 Days Of Me - Day 14 - A picture of you and your family

This is difficult as we all need to be in the same place at the same time and some one else needs to be behind the camera.

So here are a few from the last holiday which we all went on in 2006 to La Pinada south of Barcelona in Spain and visited Port Aventura (a few times)

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30 Days Of Me - Day 13 - A letter to someone who has hurt you recently

I don't get hurt by many people, however there are two who keep hurting me.

I keep telling them what they are doing, but they both ignore me and my feelings. At times they treat me like I am lower that the mud on there shoes.

They both carry on and keep doing it again, and again. It really makes me very depressed and wonder why I carry on sometimes.

The sad thing is that they are both family so I cannot ignore them. I am sure that both of them don't believe that they are doing anything wrong.

I am thick skinned, so I don't let anyone else get that close.

I do however get pissed off with some people.

I wish they would take responsibility for their actions or inactions and not blame me.

I do also get fed up of saying sorry when is should be others saying sorry to me.

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30 Days Of Me - Day 12 - How you found out about Blogger and why you made one

Found out about Blogger many years ago, I can not remember how, but not something I really thought about doing until recently. 


Except that I did create one many years ago. I did write the code that powered it. I used it for keeping snippits of technical information that I thought could come in useful. It was never public.


I have started this for some where to put stuff of interest, other bits I want to publish.

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30 Days Of Me - Day 11 - Another picture of you and your friends

The first picture is not of people (and not dogs)

On the right is Michael Kent Audi Allroad with Chris Donaldson in the passenger seat usually) on the left is the X-trail with Stew Matthews usually my passenger.

When at work sometimes you just need to get out. So what could be better that going out for a drive in the country at lunch time. All the lanes that we use are legal to drive on. We do get a few funny looks from the farmers, especially when they meet Mikes car first, as it does not look like a 4x4.

If you really want to see some of the trips go to You Tube . This one get more interesting at about 6 minutes. If you want to see more look for uploads by the same person 4 out of the 5 are mine.

And now for some dogs.

Here with some friends, and our dogs on the back of a Hercules

From left to right, the people

Margaret, Babs, An Airman (don't know who) and Me.

The dogs

Jaz (2) , Merlin (3) , Toby (2) and Charlie (4). All the dogs are full brothers, with Jaz and Toby being from the same litter.

Babs (and her club) were as asked to put on a display at a local airbase at short notice for the Ops group. We as club members were more than happy to help out.

The Club is called 'Fun And Run Together' or FART for short. Yes there are lots of school boy/girl giggles over the name.

Here are some more pictures of the day (with out dogs) on Facebook, and here are some more (with dogs) on Facebook

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30 Days Of Me - Day 10 - Songs you listen to when you are Happy, Sad, Bored, Hyped, Mad

I don't really listern to music when I am in any particuler mood, so I can not really answer this one.


The music that I do listen to is varied as you will see on day 15.


On iTunes I have a number of genius mixes based on

• Queen, Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper
• Genesis, Jetrho Tull, Dire Strates
• Nightwish, Motörhead, Sirenia. 
• English Chamber Orchestra

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