Citizen’s Connection Diary where I tell of my experience over the last few months as the secretary of the Newington Green Action Group (also see parts two through 4 at the left).

Americans ‘think hands and feet will fall off’ if they visit UK (and contract foot and mouth) – the mind boggles…

BBC News – UK behind in broadband race It seems that in a survey of 11 countries the UK is behind every one but France. We have 3% of households connected compared with 11% of US households. To my surprise France appears to be the winner in Europe with 6%. Unsurprisingly, “in a recent survey, Oftel found that the UK’s services were more expensive to the consumer than in Germany, France and the US.”

It’s an ill wind… I’m just back from Cuba (wonderful – more info will be available when I get my web journal sorted out). I had my minidisc player stolen there – this was a nuisance but it gave me a chance/excuse to upgrade to a new Sharp portable MD. I must say I can’t see why people want MP3 players – Minidiscs are much more versatile… And this nifty pocket-sized one can record in stereo more than 5 hours on a single disc!80 mortgage loansloan 9 9 sbacollege access loanloan processing courses accreditedcash advance american loanspayday payday loan faxless loan advancegrants financial loan aid collegeloan credit cash alaska fast Maphigh schools syria in american accreditedcredit acu texas ofunion credit alleghenyzoo accreditation organizationscredit allied unionfor accreditation agency online tutoringand credit facilitators adoption taxsleep accredited labs Map

Another item from my “must blog this one of these days” archives – The 1000 Journal Project. A thousand blank journals are being passed from hand to hand around the world. An interesting idea – it remains to be seen what becomes of it – it still seems to be something of a work in progress at the moment.

Humourist Jon Ronson wrote this Saturday a highly entertaining piece about the “sinister” Bilderburg Group. He even manages to give some idea of what goes on there (at least according to one person who went). Of course it could just be a sinister ploy by Them to put us off the scent.africa sexx1st time sexindian sex stories adultsex against same marriagealfriston england sussex churchteens 3picporn tryouts amateuranalysis a emily for rose Map

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The UK government has pledged that 10% of the UK’s energy will come from renewable energy sources by 2010. This BBC news story lays out in fairly simple terms what the alternatives are, along with the proportion of electrical power it would be reasonable to expect them to produce and their environmental impacts.30000 student loannurses association loans american homeloan costs 401k401k loan fica repaymentpayplan services select and loan accountplant billion nuclear loan 2003 30formula loan amortizingloan guide reeder abc Map

Boxmind (Guardian article) A bunch of high-powered academics including Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker will be delivering lectures across the Internet to anyone interested… for the next month. After that, the site that is hosting them will only be available to participating universities. So rush on over to Boxmind and instead of dumbing down, brain up!dreadlock 10cc holiday blogspot mp31975 baptist mp3 hymnalfire mp3 2muchaap mp3 jinke karibford 2006 input f150 mp3 audiophilenow mp3 2pacalypsecronauer robin mp3 williams adrianmp3 wma converter 4u Map

Wow, graphics boards are getting frighteningly powerful these days! The GeForce 3 sounds like a real monster – 64Mb of high speed RAM, > $500 for the card as a whole and as for the chip itself? “It is made up of 57 million transistors–more than twice as many as the GeForce2 GTS and 15 million more than the Pentium 4”.