Monday, May 30, 2005
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Saturday, May 14, 2005
UK's Olympic bid is the new Dome - Official
From the heart of the new Labour Administration a minister exposes the folly of the Olympic bid. The Telegraph has the story.
The question I would like answered is what it is costing to mount a losing bid? After sluicing a billion pounds down the drain at the Dome the socialists are out to prove they have learned nothing.
The question I would like answered is what it is costing to mount a losing bid? After sluicing a billion pounds down the drain at the Dome the socialists are out to prove they have learned nothing.
Monday, May 9, 2005
Girls will be boys
Monday morning in Etobicoke and Toronto has a smog warning. I was out and about on the Brompton bicycle yesterday. To Staples for some stationery supplies. I was wearing a rugby shirt, given to me by Dr Phil Newsome of Hong Kong, and the girl at the checkout asked me if I played rugby. I had to confess that it was many years ago. To my surprise she said she played rugby herself - was a prop.
Then to Best Buy where I bought a cheap digital camera, an HP Photosmart M307. I have been borrowing my wife's camera up until now but it is time to get kitted out for the summer tour.
Then to Dimpflmeier for coffee and Danish. About 10km on the bike - need to clock up the miles now that summer is here.
Then to Best Buy where I bought a cheap digital camera, an HP Photosmart M307. I have been borrowing my wife's camera up until now but it is time to get kitted out for the summer tour.
Then to Dimpflmeier for coffee and Danish. About 10km on the bike - need to clock up the miles now that summer is here.
Friday, May 6, 2005
Hogtown City Limits II
Toronto's "large imperfect" Mayor, David Miller, has urgent business in Kiev and Berlin it seems. After all spring is here and a junket seems in order. The Globe and Mail tells us that the total cost of the trip is $35,000 - "A Ukrainian airline is picking the rest of the tab." [Their English, not mine.]
The irony of the man, who destroyed the city airport and the local manufacturing jobs that went with it, freeloading off a foreign airline is not lost on PunchBuggy. Oink, oink.
The irony of the man, who destroyed the city airport and the local manufacturing jobs that went with it, freeloading off a foreign airline is not lost on PunchBuggy. Oink, oink.
Thursday, May 5, 2005
Steve Taylor Mountain Man
Steve Taylor reports from Kathmandu:
I'm Back....well, in Kathmandu anyway!!
After a most exhilarating experience and 3 weeks in the Sagamartha National Park, climbing many "hills", eating much Dhal Bhat, swimming in Glacial Lakes at 5000m and summiting Island Peak, 6189m on 30.04.2005 at 1015hrs (local) I am exhausted.
This is the most spectacular place on earth - I really think so!!
The weather has not been too kind though with it being very good for the first 2 weeks but then the clouds arrived bringing snow and rain and dullness for the last. Still it hasn't spoilt the trip, in fact, it is part of the trip and would have been quite boring if it hadn't (plus I would have brought all those warm clothes for nothing).
From start to finish, I reckon that I have walked somewhere in the region of 160 miles (not yet worked out the actual total amount of height climbed - that is more complicated).
The people are fantastic, food outstanding (to say it is some 3 miles up in the air) it will be a shame to come home.
Off to get a shower now, 'cause after 3 weeks in the hills it is a good job that the Internet hasn't yet worked out how to transmit smells.
Loads of pictures to share when I get back.
All the very best for now.
Regards,
Steve
I'm Back....well, in Kathmandu anyway!!
After a most exhilarating experience and 3 weeks in the Sagamartha National Park, climbing many "hills", eating much Dhal Bhat, swimming in Glacial Lakes at 5000m and summiting Island Peak, 6189m on 30.04.2005 at 1015hrs (local) I am exhausted.
This is the most spectacular place on earth - I really think so!!
The weather has not been too kind though with it being very good for the first 2 weeks but then the clouds arrived bringing snow and rain and dullness for the last. Still it hasn't spoilt the trip, in fact, it is part of the trip and would have been quite boring if it hadn't (plus I would have brought all those warm clothes for nothing).
From start to finish, I reckon that I have walked somewhere in the region of 160 miles (not yet worked out the actual total amount of height climbed - that is more complicated).
The people are fantastic, food outstanding (to say it is some 3 miles up in the air) it will be a shame to come home.
Off to get a shower now, 'cause after 3 weeks in the hills it is a good job that the Internet hasn't yet worked out how to transmit smells.
Loads of pictures to share when I get back.
All the very best for now.
Regards,
Steve
Hogtown city limits
The federal government has announced it will pay $35 million to the Toronto Port Authority not to build a previously-approved $22 million bridge to the island airport.
Toronto's "large imperfect" Mayor, David Miller, is "very pleased" with the result.
Writing in the Globe and Mail columnist John Barber said "How could this be? How could it cost more not to build something than it was going to cost to build it?" Answers it seems are hard to come by as silence is the preferred mode of those in the know. The porkfest goes on.
Meanwhile the ferry service across Lake Ontario between Toronto and Rochester, New York is due to be revived shortly. The service ran briefly for some eighty days last summer before regulatory problems sank it. I recall the Mayor was there at the launch of the ferry trying to shrug off the risible lack of preparation at the Toronto port. A half constructed portakabin with flapping plastic sheeting greeted our American guests. A third world country would have been ashamed. Let's hope the new ferry owners, the City of Rochester, have better luck this time around. Only in Hogtown.
Toronto's "large imperfect" Mayor, David Miller, is "very pleased" with the result.
Writing in the Globe and Mail columnist John Barber said "How could this be? How could it cost more not to build something than it was going to cost to build it?" Answers it seems are hard to come by as silence is the preferred mode of those in the know. The porkfest goes on.
Meanwhile the ferry service across Lake Ontario between Toronto and Rochester, New York is due to be revived shortly. The service ran briefly for some eighty days last summer before regulatory problems sank it. I recall the Mayor was there at the launch of the ferry trying to shrug off the risible lack of preparation at the Toronto port. A half constructed portakabin with flapping plastic sheeting greeted our American guests. A third world country would have been ashamed. Let's hope the new ferry owners, the City of Rochester, have better luck this time around. Only in Hogtown.
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