Oil is worth more than blood

The oil war is becoming clear.

The Saudis need to push the price of oil up.  They must do this as they are running out and their genetic ’seed’ will have less power and money then their predecessors.

Solution : start a war in oil rich stats such as Iraq and Afghanistan.  Then they can start putting the price of oil up. 

Problem : who to fight the war.  No problem, American and Britain are always ready for war.  And since the Saudi’s own 14% of the respective economies of these countries, it’s a no-brainer as to how to get a war started. 

Final solution : the world is poorer, millions die or are injured in the war, innocent parties become the target of terrorists and the Saudi’s get richer.  Oh and a few people in goverments who are involved in military spending.

The UK economy has detonated…delayed credit crunch aftershock heading our way…

Let’s look at what happened

1996 - deregulation in lending and easy borrowing arrives.

1998 – housing market takes off.  Everyone can get a loan now. 

1999 – recession forecast but averted by Jap economy picking up (our demand for their goods on credit) and .COM US economy pulls UK into overdrive.

2001 – lending crazy.  We have more credit card debt than the rest of europe.

2004 – we’ve peaked off in our lending, housing market still rising but cooling in London

2008 – the Northern Rock bank goes bust, banks around the world are in trouble.  And we’re hit with the onset of rising living expenses.

Yes recessions are part of capitalism.  Countries such as France and Germany prefer a steady economy with no sudden moves.  But US and UK prefer the unregulated free-for-all economies which can grow quite but collapse quick also. 

The credit crunch has been onset by bad lending and basically 1 bank conning a group of investors (another bank) into taking a goody bag of variance debts with varying risks.

OK, so what.  Well, now we have a situation where we have a downturn.  Fine, those in private sector jobs will be under threat and no doubt there will be redundancies – Jessops closed 1/2 it’s shops, as did Currys Digital.  4000 estate agents lost their jobs in the last 12 months.  So industries directly related to the credit crunch (financial, property) will be hit first.

What remains to be seen is wether the rising cost of base goods which is going through the roof is going to make this recession absolutely crippling.  Take into consideration some nasty ‘additives’ to the recession :

- petrol up 30% a year.  Wood up 50% last 12 months

- Iraq war still draining the government

- freak weather patterns which may easily affect the economy as they did 2007

- weak currency, poor £/euro exchange rate.  Since we export very little, we cannot take advantage of our weakened currency.  Even the polish are going home now as the currency has devalued / cost of living rising.

It remains to be seen but this could be a recession where everyone gets hit. 

Everyone duck!

Doggie blues

My puppy is now 6 months old and a royal pain the ass.

 It’s true beagles are a handful, but this guy is just 5 dogs in one. 

Still, we have to give him 2 years before we can say officially he’s a ‘bad dog’.

Post some pics next time.

Christmas and NY are over….

..and I’m not upset….because I got ill over the festive period…so selfish!

I truly wished Jesus Christ a happy birthday, even though we’re probably a month off chart.

In any case, I’m still eating chocolates at this late stage in the game….showing self restraint.

Christmas stress

Why does everyone get so worked up at Christmas?  The turkey, the presents, rush rush ‘get this done in time for christmas’.  Redecoration, new furniture, clean the cars, clean the house….yet it’s the busiest time anyway where you meet people for lunch, go shopping and get merry.

I hope people just remember it’s ‘Christ-mas’ and not ‘Gimmepresents-mas’ or ‘getdrunk-mas’.

Hard drive crash – my data…my data…

Haven’t logged in for a while because my PC crashed.  Or rather the hard drive died.

 I turned the PC one morning and nothing.  Just a prompt.

 Aaaaaargh!

So like an idiot, I hadn’t backed up my data.  All my data was gone….looked at some data recovery software, my friend came over and we tried to use it on the hard drive.  No read.  No life.  It was dead.

Despaired, I trawled web for data recovery solutions…..and found companies who claimed they could recover data from damaged hard disks.  After much enquiry, emails and phone calls I finally entrusted my data to 123 Data Recovery .  Their claim – no data recovered no data recovery fee.  It cost £117.50 including return shipping, I figured what the hell…all those photos and passwords….so I sent it off to the data recovery company.

3 days later the hard drive returned (still unusable) but all my data was on 14 DVD-Rs.  Wow.  Every last bit of data was recovered.  I’ve spent the last few months re-establishing a new windows install and migrating the data back from the dvds.

So hopefully posting will be more regular now my data has been recovered and we’re all systems go.

A big thanks and free plug to 123 Data Recovery - thanks guys!

Poo in my pants

Did a wet fart the other day, very embrassing.  Happened in M&S.

 Had done a big shite earlier…it was a bit runny and I was in a hurry so when I thought it was finished I went…but there was a bit of residual poop in my pants…then I farted (a small fart) and it went through to my jeans.  Very embrassing as I was in M&S at the time, had to exit quickly back to my car.  Nightmare if I had to get the bus.

Yuk!

Yeeeah it’s Friday….

For once I’m really glad it’s Friday…and I’m gonna get wasted.  Been working hard, training at the gym hard too.  Cooking really good food.  Yup, I feel like a break now.

After last weekend clearing out the loft, hopefully me and the girl will do some relaxing stuff.

G8 summit – US says ‘no way hosee’

Plans to cut emmissions and help the environment have not been approved or agreed by the USA.

Nice one boys….hmmmm…..

 Full article here

Will wireless devices give you cancer?

WIFI, cellular, infra red, bluetooth.  Soon our toilet will be hooked into the rest of the house and you’ll be able to surf using your toilet seat from 3 countries away.

 But what affect does this have on your health?  My rangemax router is designed to work up to 300ft.  Is that healthy or safe?

It’ll be interesting to see if it works out in the garden this summer, I can blog in the sunshine while using the same technology that makes my porridge hot in rapid time.