http://stevew.blogsome.com Today is Absolutely Today, Today is not yesterday, Today is not tomorrowMiscellaneous musings from Steve White Sat, 07 May 2005 04:39:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have decided to move this blog over to another host – Blogger. I started this process with Blogsome back in February and I was not quite sure how long I would keep it going. Surprisingly I have kept it going and surprisingly it has been quite enjoyable and therapeutic. ... http://stevew.blogsome.com/2005/05/07/moving-to-blogger/ There is an excellent interview with Eric Clapton on the BBC Radio 2 site - a two hour interview covering his entire career and commemorating his 60th year. The audio will only be on the web for a week. I am not sure why the BBC are limiting ... http://stevew.blogsome.com/2005/05/05/clapton-at-60/ So it was with great dismay that we all learned this morning of the death of Wanky the elephant (an interesting name for an elephant, but we don’t want to go there do we?). I hadn’t really been aware of the elephant dilemma at the Chicago Zoo where it ... http://stevew.blogsome.com/2005/05/03/wanky-the-elephant/ I was browsing around the BBC News site yesterday and came across an article about Creswell Crags, a place just a few miles from where I grew up in England. The Crags is a relatively small limestone gorge with caves that were inhabited back in the last ice age ... http://stevew.blogsome.com/2005/04/27/sistine-chapel-of-the-ice-age/ Today we, that’s mum and me, were reminiscing over one of our many cups of tea. She was talking about life back home in Staveley, particularly when she was a child. She was born in 1919, just after World War I, when things were just a little bit ... http://stevew.blogsome.com/2005/04/24/life-with-mum-part-3/ I suspect that my bees have swarmed and I have lost half the hive. A couple of weeks ago there was a lot of activity outside the hive. Now, there is activity, but just not as much as there was earlier. That’s how the bee colonies multiply, while the ... http://stevew.blogsome.com/2005/04/23/the-bees-have-swarmed/ Not that I have too much to complain about, but one thing in my life that is annoying me lately is the poor treatment and poor service from my cell phone carrier, Cingular Wireless. Its not that I was quite happy with my old service with ATT; its not ... http://stevew.blogsome.com/2005/04/19/cingular-wireless-woes/ I caught a brief snippet of Terri Gross’s interview with Tom Friedman the other day and they were talking about Walmart. Apparently Walmart is now so big and buys so much stuff from China that if it were to be a country it would be the eighth ranked trading ... http://stevew.blogsome.com/2005/04/15/walmart-is-no-8/ So we have reached the end of our first week together and all is going well, though mum has been a bit jet-lagged and sleeping a lot. Her mantra these days is a saying of her father’s – once a man and twice a child. Translated to the ... http://stevew.blogsome.com/2005/04/15/life-with-mum-part-2/ For all you non-American residents, today is April 15, a day know to every American as the deadline for filing their Income Tax returns and making good with the Government for all that they owe them. The Tax filing process is just way too complicated and the government should ... http://stevew.blogsome.com/2005/04/15/tax-day-april-14/ I am back in Sacramento now, having brought my mother over with me for what will be an 8 week vacation for her. She is doing remarkably well for a now 86 year old woman. It is her birthday today and tonight we are celebrating with frozen Lasagne ... http://stevew.blogsome.com/2005/04/11/life-wih-mum-part-1/ The officials at the Vatican apparently sat HRH Prince Charles a couple of seats away from President Mugabe at the Pope’s funeral the other day. The world leader everyone loves to hate (even the Catholic Archbishop from Zimbabwe was against Mugabe attending) gets to sit a few seats away ... http://stevew.blogsome.com/2005/04/09/prince-charles-and-mugabe/ So the Pope has been laid to rest today. It was quite a world event, wasn’t it? It was the “must attend” event of the year for world leaders – everybody from Hamid Kharzai to Tony Blair to a pair of Bushes and even the ostracized Robert Mugabe, ... http://stevew.blogsome.com/2005/04/08/all-this-fuss-about-the-pope/ Last night I went out for a drink in what has always been the closest local pub to my home – The Smith’s Arms. It’s a sad place these days, but it has managed to hold on while the number of pubs in the UK has dramatically fallen. ... http://stevew.blogsome.com/2005/04/08/the-demise-of-the-smiths-arms/ In California, I do not travel on public transport. I ride the few miles to work in my car each morning and I ride back home in the evening. It’s my own little environment heated or air conditioned to a pleasant temperature, with NPR on the radio, a ... http://stevew.blogsome.com/2005/04/07/public-transportation/