How to Win an Election
The person who was formerly known as the richest man in Italy, Mr Berlusconi, has been making noises about acquiring Alitalia in an attempt to save it from the dastardly marauding French.
What a master stroke, right at election time too. He couldn’t have planned it better. Who knows how may votes this little stunt will garner? A good few, undoubtedly. Most of those who work for Alitalia for a start. Then there will be all the others who fear that their companies may come under foreign rule. Read more
More to Chew On
I write too much, I know
Nope, I’m not on about the number of posts, but the length of the things. I do try to keep things brief, but they tend to get out of hand, and when I see them, I think ‘Heck, I didn’t think it was going to end up that long’.
As an excuse, I would say that the WordPress posting screen is much wider than the actual space for posts on the blog, so I don’t think that I have gone overboard. Generally though, I know that I have a tendency to go on a bit too much.
Sorry if this bothers you, and if it does, tell me, and I’ll attempt to bring my verbosity to heel.
More to Chew On
This Would be Useful
Well, I’d find it handy. What I’d like my email client to do would be to automatically, when requested, recognise dates and times and add them to whatever calendar system I’m using. I’m always receiving emails with this sort of information. I know that there is a plugin thing for Outlook, but I use Thunderbird, and so far I have not found a system that can do this.
Such a system would save quite a bit of time for many people, I suspect.















