Alan Gandy

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Once upon a time long-long-ago the Internet used to be a wonderful place… What the hell happened to it. The global village truly existed – it was like ham radio (must make me sound like a geek to say it, but its true), it was possible to go online and randomly talk to decent people all over the world. There were no pictures, it was just text, there was very little commercial presence – if any – and most of the people you met were intelligent! There was a choice of a couple of ISP’s in the UK, a state-of-the-art modem ran at 2400 baud, advertising and marketing online was nothing more than a glint in a few people’s wallets. Read the rest of this entry »

What a ridiculous farce tonight’s Euro 2008 qualifier turned out to be. Why on earth did Steve McClaren replace Robinson with Carson? Let’s face it, McClaren has to go now…

The BBC report on the game

We English have been the victims of their attacks too, and one of my favourite quotes ever was by Ken Livingstone the Mayor of London after the Attacks on 7th July 2005… (It applies equally to the events of 911 too…)

“I want to say one thing specifically to the world today. This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful. It was not aimed at presidents or prime ministers. It was aimed at ordinary, working-class Londoners— black and white, Muslim and Christian, Hindu and Jew, young and old— indiscriminate attempt to slaughter, irrespective of any considerations for age, for caste, for religion or whatever. Read the rest of this entry »

It´s hard for anyone to let this date pass without remembering what happened. I guess this will, to use an English reference, be written into history like the gun powder plot. Now there’s a thought, lets go and burn some effigies of Bin Laden… They seem to like burning our Union Flag and the Stars and Stripes, lets return the compliment.

The murdering scum who committed the atrocities on 911 will no doubt rot in their own version of hell for their deeds… Read the rest of this entry »

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