I've got a choice between reading a paper on international standards in pressure-pipe welding, and what we need to do to get welding contractors up to speed, or write about...
Hmm, pressure pipe welding sounds pretty spiffy, eh? Maybe Ha%%y, as he still reads here to find out what I'm up to (don't laugh mate, so does Mrs VVB...) can give me a few pointers. Where are the reputable international
Setting up rules to manage your in-box? Tick. If you're a busy executive, paying someone to manage information flow using judgement and technology? If you don't have a dedicated PA or there are time differences because you are frequently overseas? OK then.Paying a team of MBAs to manage your FaceBook page? Aaaaargh make it stop.
Wayne Swan has just been eviscerated (within normal 7.30 Report boundaries) by Kerry O'Brien.
Four departments briefed against the national Fuel Watch scheme, so why is the Government going ahead with it?
Hmm...so where were the leaks during the Howard government's reign? At least we know that the current government is getting frank and fearless advice.
Looks like the ABC will definitely
Your humble correspondent is a troubled, and increasingly somewhat pissed, soul this evening.
The news from Burma gets ever more dire, not that anyone with any understanding of the bastards that run the place should be surprised.
Returning from a semi-work function last night we were listening to the radio with some unidentified UN official giving a series of increasingly bureaucratic (there
Looks like Mrs VVB is not on her pat. Even the Times wants more done, although it's a somewhat more nuanced approach. One of the commenters thinks we should air-drop guns.
The bastardry of the generals' regime is beyond our understanding. We must do something.
Alexander Downer stands down.
Does anybody with more time - and fortitude - on their hands care to do a trawl to get some Downer quotes on the uselessness of the UN during the Howard era.
They weren't keen on the UN were they, as I recall.
Nicosia's a nice place, I once had to go to a dentist urgently there. They can put a temporary filling in the with the best of them.
Anyway it'll keep
The Sunday paper sheds a bit more light on the current craze in weddings. The celebrity affair referred to yesterday is there - apparently it cost $20m, so evidently this is a very well-paid footballer. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Makes even merchant banking seem respectable.
However it is also revealed that "an international magazine" has paid $10m for "exclusive access" to the wedding. The
SBS news carries a report just now that the Burmese generals may be charged with crimes against humanity.
It's been a long time coming.
Via Webdiary, Lee Iococca, once CEO of Chrysler, delivers a finely crafted rant about what he sees is wrong with the USA.
I suspect many of us in Australia don't 'get' the US. We certainly may not be convinced by Manifest Destiny and I'm certainly one of the many who rail against the continuing Americanisation of our language and culture.
Offspring No 2 'gets' the US: she's seen the best and
Looks like Mrs VVB is not on her pat. Even the Times wants more done, although it's a somewhat more nuanced approach. One of the commenters thinks we should air-drop guns.
The bastardry of the generals' regime is beyond our understanding. We must do something.
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