Sorry for the long overdue post here. It seems, though, I’m not the only busy person in the world. Tomorrow is the United Nations’ World Environment Day and a launch of a new atlas showing how the world has changed is being launched.
BBC News Interactive shows some amazing photos from the atlas. It’s astonishing how quickly cities spread, especially in developing countries, and supporting what I had seen in Malaysia in February.
* WE NEED THE MENTAL HEALTH ACT *
No one in the UK can get away from last week’s astonishing and annoying chart-topper, the Crazy Frog. If you want to find out more about the creation Crazy Frog phenomenon, find out about it in the links below. But it has got rather annoying, so much that the following amusing photo has been circulating on the web. Excellent work to whoever created it (apologies to the creator, as I haven’t been able to find out who you are).
Anyway, I think it’s time to evoke the Mental Health Act in the UK to commit the Crazy Frog to an asylum…
For the rest of the world, look out. I know Malaysia has had a lot of Crazy Frog advertising. It can only spread around the world….
Links:
‘The Crazy Frog Sound? That’s My Fault’ (BBC News)
Crazy Frog Hops To Chart Success (BBC News)
The Annoying Thing (Official Site)
Crazy Frog (Official UK Site)
* PLAIN SAILING *
Just to report from a week ago that I got the feel of what it must be like being in Ellen MacArthur’s boat, as my boat, skippered by Peter, one of the company’s partners, won the L.E.K. Sailing Day 2005.
Admittedly, there was some luck involved. First race involved the disqualification of the first 3 boats to finish for going round the first buoy the wrong way, leaving us the win. It was a nervous race for me, as I had read the course off the club house boards from a distance and there was a little uncertainty of whether the first board was red or green (for the non-initiated, the colour determines which way round the buoy you go). Now I’m not colourblind and I was certain it was red, but for half an hour, I was quaking with nervousness as there was a potential that I’d have been thrown overboard by one of our senior partners – not the best career move! Thankfully we were right and we won the race from the fourth finished. In the second race, Peter use the tide charts to great effect to finish us in third despite a bad start. Unfortunately, after lunch, the wind died and there was no further racing. But the cancellations meant we had come highest on aggregate, and therefore win overall. And so the local boy won the races for the second time in the 3 year history of the race.
It was a great day – well for most of us… There were a lot of ill sailors this year. Put it this way, the Solent will be a very fertile area this year.