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A photograph of mine has been printed in today’s copy of The Ticket, the entertainment section of The Irish Times!
Thanks to the help of my good friend, Andy, I have a nice new website for you to marvel at, with an updated portfolio.
Check it out at www.philokanephotography.com
Stay tuned for more updates over the next few weeks.
That is, according to a study by three doctors in KS Hegde Medical Academy in Mangalore, India. The study asks: “Are lung cancers triggered by stopping smoking?”
So basically they took 312 lung cancer patients they treated during a four-year period of which 182 recently quit. They had all been smoking for more than 25 years. Theres more to it I’m sure, but the bottom line is 58% of patients had quit yet they still got lung cancer.
“A biological mechanism that protects smokers against cancer, that gets exercised and strengthened by years of diligent, heavy smoking. As in habitual marathon running, the body becomes accustomed to suffering grievous damage, and develops habitual ways to fix up whatever breaks down. The smoker’s body becomes a sort of lean, puffing, self-damaging-yet-self-repairing machine.”
Having said that - I am doing the smart thing, and once again attempting to quit the nasty and expensive habit.
Could it be what the Boathouse lyrics are all about in the song ‘Johnny and Ruth Story’: “She knows he’ll never quit”?
So rumour has it the people of the UK and Ireland like to talk about the weather a lot. I would agree with this. When its sunny, its beautiful. Most of the time its not. I don’t want to whine on about it too much, ‘cos I’m going to the sun soon anyway.
The Guardian yesterday posed the question: Is summer over? It seems that already conkers have been spotted, as well as holly berries, its cold and wet and the shops are full of summer clothes. I am still undecided on this ’summer over’ thing, though correct me if I’m wrong, is it not always cold and wet here? And since when did we determine the seasons according to when shops bring in new stock?
Plants have been tricked into thinking winter is on the way because of record high temperatures in spring, followed by a dismal wet summer and cool conditions.
If this is true is spring now the new summer? Are all the seasons coming earlier? That was a great spring we had, and I’m still waiting for summer. It reminds me of a really bad movie, the one where you’re just waiting for something to happen and it never does; think War of the Worlds or Solaris.
I only got a chance to use my sun screen once.
Andrew Baron has responded to the “misleading” Market Watch article saying:
“Rocketboom will always remain free and easily available to obtain. That’s our #1 foundational principle of being and I don’t ever foresee needing to change that.”"
Its not true at all. Rocketboom will remain freely available. The point I was making is that we are not happy with advertising right now. The advertisers are not being very flexible and down-to-earth and we are just not happy with the idea of mass advertising on Rocketboom. Its not ruled out, it just feels wrong so far. “
I just wish it was a little more interesting and a little less boring, though Joanne Colan is very attractive.
The crazy weather and threat of snow must have too many people to the BBC’s Weather site lately. The default is London, though I want to change it to Belfast, but when I try to do so I get a nasty 502 error.
Unfortunately a server error occured whilst trying to retrieve this page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/weather/search/new_search.pl?
search_query=belfast&go.x=0&go.y=0
We are currently working to correct this
I hope they do ‘cos I wanna know how cold its gonna be.
update
Just remembered I have one of the best Firefox extensions: ForecastFox.
(I’m not dumb I wanted to check the weather in work and forgot I don’t need to do it at home…)
Thankfully it doesn’t look like there will be much snow if anyway in these parts this week, unlike in England.
Today the images of Richard Hammond’s high speed crash have been released by the BBC.
He was making an attempt at the British land speed (currently 300.3mph) record in the Thule Vampire, a 30-foot Rolls-Royce jet-powered dragster made in Sweden capable of reaching 272 mph in six seconds en route to a theoretical top speed of 370. The crash took place at over 280 mph.
I find it interesting that the BBC put this in the Entertainment section of the News site.
Richard is returning to the show when the new series starts on 28th Jan, and apparently the crash is going to be shown in full.
The Jane Bradfords have hit the number one spot on the Qatar charts! The question is - how on earth did this happen?
The track ‘Hide from the Cold’ has been played on BBC Radio 1 by DJs Colin Murray and Huw Stephens and was found by local radio DJ at QBS in Qatar. The charts are determined by votes, rather than sales. The Band have managed to beat the likes of Muse, The Killers, Razorlight and The Lost Prophets to the number one spot.
Will this have a knock-on effect for other NI bands?