Monthly archives: February 2007

I don't want your books on Marilyn or Bobby D

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I don’t want your money honey
I want your love
I don’t want your car baby
I want your aahhh!
I don’t need your friends
They don’t need a mention
I just want your love
And all of your attention
I don’t want your money, I want your love
I don’t want your car, I want your aahhh!
I want your your love
I Want Your Love – Transvision Vamp

Solar power heads toward the dollar per watt landmark

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Solar power costs are dropping and could soon cross over the point where they’re cheaper than fossil fuels and other supplies. Germany passed a law demanding utilities buy excess electricity from microgeneration at a good price and the take up of solar, and no doubt other technologies, has soared.

The only people too stupid to be excited by these developments are the electricity and oil companies.

“There is no silver bullet,” said Jeroen Van der Veer, Shell’s chief executive.
“We have invested a bit in all forms of renewable energy ourselves and maybe we’ll find a winner one day. But the reality is that in twenty years time we’ll still be using more oil than now,” he said.

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Solar heads for the sub dollar per watt landmark

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Solar power costs are dropping and could soon cross over the point where they’re cheaper than fossil fuels and other supplies. Germany passed a law demanding utilities buy excess electricity from microgeneration at a good price and the take up of solar, and no doubt other technologies, has soared.

The only people too stupid to be excited by these developments are the electricity and oil companies.

“There is no silver bullet,” said Jeroen Van der Veer, Shell’s chief executive.
“We have invested a bit in all forms of renewable energy ourselves and maybe we’ll find a winner one day. But the reality is that in twenty years time we’ll still be using more oil than now,” he said.

Jeroen Van der Veer sends me an email every week or so. I never bother to read them.

Not making babies

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The all natural Symptothermal Method of birth control has been shown, when practised properly, to be as effective as the Pill. The method requires regular checking of temperature and assessments of cervical secretions, so obviously would work best for someone with a settled routine.

I’m sure Boots sold a system a few years ago that helped people to follow this method, though it may also have required peeing on a probe.

Self diagnosis

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Whenever I’m unwell I have particularly vivid dreams.  So the fact that I woke from one last night wanting to cry and not sure quite why says something about my health.  (The pillow drenched in sweat was another sign.)

I only remember snippets of the dream, from which I’ve ascertained that my subconcious is a manipulative bugger.  This was heart-tugging movie of the week material.  There was the poor little crippled kid who obviously wasn’t going to make it and a troubled blonde who was either a teacher in  the style of Michelle Pfeifer in Dangerous Minds or a doctor like Doctor Susan from the first few series of ER.  Add melodrama and other stuff and stir to see Ian wake up all confused and upset.

I’ve got tomorrow off.  Watch me come down with something and be incapable of doing the stuff I need to do.

More debt-blogging?

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http://money.independent.co.uk/personal_finance/invest_save/article2287041.ece
Maybe I lied yesterday when I implied I’d never write about my debts again. The Independent has an article today that includes instructions on how to reclaim unauthorised borrowing fees going back six years. Given that 2001 was when I started to get into financial difficulties, this is something I really have got to do.

Pancakes we have known and loved

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml;jsessionid=BOG10DW3ST0DDQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/portal/2007/02/20/nosplit/ftpancake20.xml

The history of the pancake in Britain.

I doubt I’m abstaining from anything for Lent.  I did consider giving up work this morning.  40 days would be one of my shorter periods of unemployment.

For a few years I gave up alcohol for Ramadan, because it fell conveniently before or after the UMIST Beer Fest and a little abstinence is a good thing before the indulgence of Christmas.  It’s one of the benefits of being post-modern and secular- I can pick and choose which religious festivals, and from which religions, I choose to use as an excuse for doing stuff.

Next month I’ll be Irish for a day, along with about twenty times the population of Ireland around the world.  St. Patrick has to be the greatest advertising campaign Guinness ever invented.  Less celebrated are St. George (23rd April), St. Andrew (30th November) and St. David (1st March).  I ought to celebrate those as well, I guess, and any other national saints’ days that seem appropriate.

Any excuse for a party.