Archive for March, 2007

Petition to revoke the independence of the United States of America

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

DISCLAIMER: This is a JOKE!
I found this on Facebook…a group has been set up specially. I thought it was more than a tad amusing! Please don’t be too offended my dearest American friends…
To the citizens of the United States of America, in the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA […]

Children love Easter eggs…but

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

This Easter, the chocolate industry cannot guarantee our chocolate is Traffik Free.Nearly half the world’s chocolate is made from cocoa grown in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa.
The 2000 US State Department Human Rights report said “It is estimated that some 15,000 Malian children work on Ivorian cocoa and coffee plantations. Many are under 12 years-of-age, sold […]

Random facts about Sheffield

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Sheffield is officially Europe’s greenest city, having won the 2005 Entente Florale competition.
Roughly a third of Sheffield lies in the Peak District National Park - no other English city includes parts of a national park within its boundary
The number of people without a religion is above the national average at 17.9%.
The largest quinary group is […]

Picture update

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

I thought I’d share a few pictures from the last month or so:

This was my Granny (Dad’s side) on the day we all celebrated her 90th birthday

Me, my niece Freya, and sister Jose

My other Granny (mum’s side) celebrating her 90th just a few weeks later

All four nephews and nieces: Joshua, Elizabeth, Abigail, Freya

Newborn lambs at […]

Google into Cricket?!

Monday, March 12th, 2007

I was very pleasantly surprised this morning to discover the Google logo celebrating the start of the Cricket World Cup:

Not only this, but this weeks Time magazine has a brief article encouraging American’s to use the World Cup as a chance to get a feel for the game.
Here’s to cricket!
Other exciting news on the sporting […]

More Apple Ad’s

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Apple have added some more ad’s in the same vein as the previous ones I shared. Very funny again!
Naughty Step
Magic
Out of the Box
Court
Accident
Network
What do you think?!
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Chaordic

Friday, March 9th, 2007

Linked with the 6 month online training course I’m on at the moment, we’ve been dissecting a very interesting interview this week with a guy called Dee Hock. Dee Hock is the founder and former CEO of Visa International. He’s written a book called Birth of the Chaordic Age (which I’ll definitely be adding to […]


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