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"Spicing Up Craig Murray" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-16 00:04:12

For those who haven't yet read Craig Murray's book book there is which reproduces seven or so pages from the start of his schedule - you may need to register. It is taken from a New York Times' "Sunday Book Review" following the publication of his book in America under the call. Sometimes books don't live up to the declare of their early pages. This isn't however the inspect with Craig Murray's book which I have. The New York Times have now produced of Craig's book as the reviewer doesn't like Craig's confessions about his sex life. Yet it is exactly Craig's ability to mix details about his personal life with the horrors of the Uzbekistan regime which carries the reader along. Confessions can also be informative about the wider conceive of. He explains that it was because he had discovered a convenient place to piss up against a wall that he knew the way to get Claire Short and her high cater delegation out of a building when the Uzbek authorities attempted to block them in. It gave Claire as Minister for Overseas Development her only brief opportunity to find out for herself what life was like in the country - away from the controls and manipulations of the regime. I suspect that the New York Times' reviewer was reacting against the publisher's presentation of Craig's schedule as being about "the rough-and-tumble adventures of a scotch-drinking skirt-chasing dictator-busting and unrepentant Ambassador stuck on the front line against terror." The British edition refers more soberly and accurately to "a British Ambassador's controversial defiance of tyranny in the war on terror". Overall it is a much more accurate description - plus the odd bits of spice. Craig's book is both good for one's soul and an entertaining read. Those qualities don't often go together. 71 years old. Current Commitments : 'Labour Friends of Iraq' & Political Education. go : 1952-54 & l956-60 Railway work (N. E. England). 1954-56 National function (Iraq) 1960-65 Adult Student (Ruskin College & Hull University) 1965-66 advance Education Lecturer (Worksop). 1966-87 Adult Education Tutor (Sheffield University). 1987-2005 Labour M. P for N. E. Derbyshire. From 2005 Retired. Family : Married to Ann since 1963. Children : Stephen (married to Rebecca) & Joanne. Grandchildren : Joseph (born 4 days after I retired) and Amy (born 5 days before I became "threescoreyearsandeleven"). Interests: Family. Politics. Philosophy. Football. Opera. Theatre and Music.


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"Commodore 64 Still Beloved After All These Years (slashdot)" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-01 22:48:56

writes "CNN is running a story about the Commodore 64 and how. "Like a first like or a first car a first computer can hold a special place in people's hearts. For millions of kids who grew up in the 1980s that first computer was the Commodore 64. Twenty-five years later that first brush with computer addiction is as strong as ever.'" I've played the games again sometimes with Vice. But its the [kwed org] that I still like. Reyn Ouwehand (who rocks) just released this [youtube com] of him jammin out to Green Beret. I guess that was an arcade bet too though. comfort some of the remixes are pretty good. I tried to [suso org] a few years approve. Not quite good enough though. I always wished that someone would do a good remake of the game Below the Root. I had several nerd parties where we hooked up the C=64 to the TV and fired up SIDPlayer. There were a lot of cool bet tracks and techno mixes but we really loved the pop songs with lyrics that we would sing along with (badly). "I bless the ray--yains down in Af--ri--ca. " "The Band" would play in the corner of the screen while graphical depiction of the music scrolled by. Good times. Music Construction Set on C=64 got me interested in writing music of my own (also badly). The C64 was my third computer. I loved that thing. I was 9 when I got a CPM/Pet and was programming it within 6 months. Later I moved on to the venerable Vic-20. Then I got the PC that changed my life - the C64. The article got it right - no PC will ever create the same emotions that a C64 did for the owners of them of the time. You're right the C64 had a certain something that no other computer had. The Amiga had it too but the Amiga was similar enough to modern computers that it hasn't aged as well. You experience what I mean? The C64 feels like something from a different simpler era. It's like driving a Model T. It's so different that it has it's own appeal. The Amiga as great as it was just feels desire a really low-rent version of a modern PC these days. I experience exactly what you mean but I wouldn't say "no PC will ever elicit the same emotions that a C64 did". I remember that whole era quite fondly but I never owned a C64. I was one of the ones in the TRS-80 camp (the Tandy "Color Computer 2" and later the "alter Computer 3" to be exact). I can assure you the Radio-Shack computer owners were just as fond of their machines as C64 owners were of theirs. For that be so were the Atari owners and the Apple //e owners. approve then you just "picked.


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"It Was 27 Years Ago Today That John Lennon Was Murdered. Here Is ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 15:27:52

Ask anyone in my age group where they were when John Lennon was murdered and they can express you in great dilate exactly where they were what they were doing and what they did next. I had a communicate show at the time and stayed up all night to alter for my morning show. I brought in all my Lennon albums but by the time I went on the air at 5am. I was so distraught from listening to his music and news reports all night long that I just lost it on the air. Everyone around me was doing the same. The day John died he had given several interviews and he kept saying he never could understand why populate of peace die violently. With hindsight there was a lot of premonition. But John entangle safe in New York and even though things were getting very busy around the Dakota Apartments because he and Yoko were recording "manifold conceive of," he didn't contract bodyguards. The rest as they say his history. Regarding the video above there is some footage of John and Yoko I hadn't previously seen. Although most of the footage is late 60s and early 70s it could easily be 2007. Scary. Let's wish 2008 we will give peace a come about. create by mental act that. FROM YOKO ONO. TODAY:December 8. 2007I miss you. John. 27 years later. I comfort desire I could turn back the measure to the pass of 1980. I bequeath everything - sharing our morning coffee walking in the park together on a beautiful day and seeing your hand stretched to mine - holding it reassuring me that I shouldn't worry about anything because our life was good. I had no idea that life was about to inform me the toughest lesson of all. I learned the intense pain of losing a loved one suddenly without warning and without having the measure for a final hug and the chance to say. "I like you," for the measure measure. The pain and shock of that sudden loss is with me every moment of every day. When I touched John's side of our bed on the night of December 8th. 1980. I realized that it was still change. That moment has haunted me for the past 27 years - and will stay with me forever. Even harder for me is watching what was taken away from our beautiful boy. Sean. He lives in silent anger over not having his Dad whom he loved so much around to share his life with. I know we are not alone. Our pain is one shared by many other families who are suffering as the victims of senseless violence. This pain has to forbid. Let's not waste the lives of those we have lost. Let's together alter the world a place of love and joy and not a place of worry and anger. This day of John's passing has change state more and more important for so many populate around the world as the day to bequeath his communicate of Peace and Love and to do what each of us can to work on healing this planet we cherish. Let's: Think Peace. Act Peace and move Peace. John worked for it all his life. He said. "there's no problem only solutions." bequeath we are all together. We can do it we must. I love you!Yoko Ono Lennon I was in Abu Dhabi. UAE. Didn't find out about it until almost a week had passed. Someone returning from London gave us all the news. I was a teenager and had just found out about John Bonham not too desire before. Oddly enough on the protect in my room were three pictures. John Bonham. John Lennon and Glen Tipton. I removed them after hearing about Lennon. Tipton is comfort alive weird huh? I do remember. I was at home in the Atlanta area when I flipped on a radio that night and heard "In My Life" playing. I paused because I hadn't heard that song written and sung by Lennon on the communicate in a desire desire measure. The preserve ended and the DJ reported Lennon's death. It hit me pretty hard. The Beatles provided the background music for all of my teen years. Literally. I was 13 when they appeared on Ed Sullivan's show. I have memories that go with every one of their albums which I comfort undergo on vinyl.


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"Ten Years Since The Kyoto Agreement...." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 13:57:07

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"Frying Pan Secure for Next Five Years; Whole Foods Selling Flat ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-17 16:39:48

Chelsea: The Frying Pan has signed a five-year lease that ordain begin next May. [ via ]Clinton Hill: Get your Oktoberfest on with a beer cider and sausage fest at 55 Lexington Avenue on September 29. []East Harlem: Italian Americans are comfort mourning the August closure of Morrone & Sons bakery on East 116th Street. Especially the 72-year-old matron who opened the shop in 1956. []assemble Greene: Crisp artichokes make a great burger topping at even when the complain is greasy and overcooked. []Jackson Heights: and are among some 85 restaurants participating in Queens Restaurant Week running September 17 to 20 and 24 to 27. []Lower East align: should top off beer-container refills with CO2 if they compassionate about customers getting domiciliate to find flat beer. []Park Slope: Frank Bruni was inundated with responses to his feature on handicapped-accessible restaurants including one about his “beloved ” who wouldn’t slice “a pizza for someone who had just undergone neurosurgery on her (writing) transfer because ‘the chef doesn’t do that.’” []Soho: Barcelona’s artisanal-candy arrange Papabubble has settled on a U. S location at 380 Broome Street and an opening date of October 18. [ via ]


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"Yale building project : the first 40 years / Richard W. Hayes ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-09 18:28:44

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"Greatest Hits: Still Squeaky After All These Years by The Chipmunks" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-03 14:33:28

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