learning swahili
Prince William’s career plans in no particluar order:
Join the army
Become king
Marry some princess
Learn Swahili
Hang on,
learn Swahili??!
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2 comments Friday, May 30th, 2003 at 1:56 AM
Archive for May, 2003
We Were Conned
The build-up to war: What they said
“Intelligence leaves no doubt that Iraq continues to possess and conceal lethal weapons”
George Bush, Us President 18 March, 2003
“We are asked to accept Saddam decided to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.”
Tony Blair, Prime Minister 18 March, 2003
“Saddam’s removal is necessary to eradicate the threat from his weapons of mass destruction”
Jack Straw, UK Foreign Secretary 2 April, 2003
“Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit”
Tony Blair 28 April, 2003
well that’s pretty clear then isn’t it? Or is it:
“It is possible Iraqi leaders decided they would destroy them prior to the conflict”
Donald Rumsfeld, US Defence Secretary 28 May, 2003
from the front page of the The Independent
update:
these are even better!
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Add comment Thursday, May 29th, 2003 at 8:45 PM
chess
Who controls the World Chess Federation? A geek in specs? A child chess prodigy able to battle with computers? A group on improvised yet honourable chess enthusiasts? Well no. It is controlled by a maverick billionaire, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who is also president of an impoverished former Soviet republic, Kalmykia.
Kalmykia? Someone’s taking the piss. Anyone heard of a country called Kalmykia? More on this later I assure you!
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Add comment Thursday, May 29th, 2003 at 3:56 AM
what did you do?
Nicholas d. Kristof asks, “What Did You Do During the African Holocaust?” in the NY Times.
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Add comment Thursday, May 29th, 2003 at 3:45 AM
Bob Geldof
I was going to write about Bob Geldof interview in The Guardian which astonished the aid community by praising the Bush administration as one of Africa’s best friends in its fight against hunger and Aids. However as AfricaPundit and The Skeptic got to it before I did there’s no real need is there? I love it when someone else does all the work!
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Add comment Thursday, May 29th, 2003 at 3:35 AM
beautiful game
There has been an Italian invasion of Manchester by
these guys and
these guys. Apparently there is some football match going on at Old Trafford tonight. (Current black market price for a ticket on the North Stand: �300. I can get you a ticket for a tenner but you’ll have to sit facing Luke Chadwick the whole evening.) Italian restaurants are packed (Why would you travel all the way to England and eat the same food you find at home? Oh yes, English food is shyte.)
By the way sports and politics do mix. Although Juve is seen as a arrogant corrupt club driven by money not football (manyoo anyone) quite a few Italian neutrals are supporting Juve this time round as a form of protest against Silvio Berlusconi who basically owns Milan.
But as am not Italian, am sticking with Milan. They were the first Italian club I supported and am loyal like that!
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1 comment Wednesday, May 28th, 2003 at 2:55 PM
Help is here
Bored in the office?
Want to fail exams in style?
Help is
here
and
here
and
here
Shamelessly thugged from
here
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Add comment Wednesday, May 28th, 2003 at 4:19 AM
congo
The congo conflict in a nutshell.
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Add comment Wednesday, May 28th, 2003 at 3:40 AM
Leisure
Leisure
What is this life if full of care
We have no time to stand and stare.No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.No time to see, when woods we pass
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.No time to see, in broad daylight
Streams full of stars like skies at night.No time to turn at Beauty’s glance
And watch her feet, how they can dance.No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
W.H.Davies [1871-1940]
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Add comment Tuesday, May 27th, 2003 at 8:19 PM
Gone Mad
The phrase “gone mad” has been over used recently. Especially in situations such as “political correctness gone mad” or “patriotism gone mad” but when you start giving an ambulance driver who is racing against time to get a liver to a hospital in time for a transplant a speeding ticket, then that is the law gone mad. The guy even had the flashing lights on and it was at 3am for sanity’s sake.
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Add comment Tuesday, May 27th, 2003 at 8:08 PM
spare time
You’ve got 11 hours to kill. What would you do? Get some sleep, clean the house, catch a couple of movies, visit friends, climb Mount Everest. CLIMB MOUNT EVEREST? Talk about using your Weetabix.
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Add comment Tuesday, May 27th, 2003 at 3:29 PM
Snub Mandela
Gareth Southgate, Paul Scholes, Gareth Barry, Joe Cole, Danny Mills, Phil Neville, Steven Gerrard and Paul Robinson could you really not get it together to get on a one-hour plane flight to meet Nelson Mandela? I mean honestly. This is Mandela we are talking about. Read Southgate’s explanation and let me know if it convinces you.
Maybe I am just bitter because I may never get the chance to shake Mandela’s hand let alone actually spend some quality time bonding with him like these guys had the opportunity too. To rub it all in Southgate thinks that the goal he scored “vindicates” his decision to sleep rather than meet Mandela. A goal against South Africa -v- meeting Mandela? Which is more important? For me it is a non-starter. They missed an opportunity of a lifetime. Their lives would have been so much richer. I mean what is point of being an international football if you do not get to meet Mandela?
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Add comment Friday, May 23rd, 2003 at 3:30 PM
sexiest
FHM took a whole year and had to ask thousands of people to get an answer I could have given them in 1 second flat. Who is the sexiest woman in the world? Halle Berry.
OK OK OK before you start giving me all those, ” all you men are just the same,” or, “typical, you do not look for REAL black beauty” (whatever that is meant to be); I still think (and it doesn’t look like am going to change my mind so don’t try to convice me wanambe) that Tyra Banks is the shit. Yes, sexier than Halle.
Who do I think is the most beautiful of the beautiful and sexiest of the sexiest? Ah that would be telling now wouldn’t it!
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6 comments Friday, May 23rd, 2003 at 3:07 PM
allafrica
Giving credit where credit is due. I have to big up the people at allAfrica.com. The site is a fantastic news resource for Africa. In addition they also generate rss/rdf modules for the public to use. That means clowns like me can have the latest African headlines on our sites. The Kenyan headlines on the right hand side of my main page are a good example. For all the webmasters out there that do not have the facilities to run RSS/RDF modules there is a perfect safe JavaScript cut-and-paste option that you can use.
It is not just me who thinks they are great by the way. The International Academy of Digital Arts and Science has nominated them for a Webby award. The Webby Awards are the leading international honour for the worlds best web sites. I would strongly encourage you to vote for them in the People’s Voice section. (You need to register to vote. This is not just another Internet vote.) Let us flex some African web muscle here.
(No I am not connected to allafrica in anyway. I do not work for them, in fact I have never even broken bread with them, don’t be such a cynic!)
(yes this entry has to many brackets in it)
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Add comment Thursday, May 22nd, 2003 at 10:45 PM