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Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 9:42PM on 21st May, 2012. (149.254.xxx.xxx)
It's a mad world.........
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 9:41PM on 21st May, 2012. (149.254.xxx.xxx)
Sky News: Last Updated: 8:39PM 21/05/2012
Lia Hervey, Olympics producer
The military will "sterilise" London's airspace during the Olympic Games in the most severe air security restrictions Britain has ever seen, it has been revealed.
At a briefing on Heathrow's airport use during the Games, Paul Haskins, general manager of the London Terminal Control centre, revealed that the restrictions used during the London 2012 Olympics will be as strong as those in place post-September 11.
Airspace will go into lock down between July 14 and August 15 this summer.
Air traffic will be highly controlled with pre-approved planes being told which routes to take well in advance.
Any unapproved air traffic including hot air balloons, microlights, private jets and any other unauthorised air transport will be banned from flying during the lock down period.
The increased security will see the RAF running the air traffic control systems across London in five weeks' time until the end of the Games, alongside civilian air traffic controllers.
Paul Hoskins said: "I think it's the biggest challenge National Air Traffic Services (Nats) has ever faced.
"The Ministry Of Defence is tasked with managing security airspace.
"My observation is that they have done this sort of thing before. It has just never happened over London. We've never seen that size of operation over the top of London."
It was also revealed that the severe security restrictions may cause traffic build up at the airport and that any disruption caused by the Olympics may mean planes will fly throughout the night.
During the Olympics 500,000 visitors will arrive into the UK by air - 70,000 will be people connected to the Olympic Games, while 20,000 will be accredited media from across the world.
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 9:12PM on 21st May, 2012. (149.254.xxx.xxx)
Anyway, to cut a short story long I uninstalled Realplayer. And download the email video again. But Windows Movie Maker and Windows Media Player would not play it. So I downloaded Reaplayer again and it would not play the email video attatchment but Windows Movie Maker did. It is obvious to me now that somehow I've got my files in a twist. Good job I have this android phone. It does everything much better than my laptop does. Opens zip files with Thinkfree Office. Plays email attatchments. etc etc etc....
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 7:01PM on 21st May, 2012. (86.3.xxx.xxx)
The page that now pops up on RealPlayer on this laptop when I try to play an email video I have captured and sent to www.flickr.com/photos/musflicks
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 6:52PM on 21st May, 2012. (86.3.xxx.xxx)
Then Adobe would not open my files. But Windos live photo gallery did. And Windows Photo Gallery..........certainly a ghost in this machine.....
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 6:49PM on 21st May, 2012. (86.3.xxx.xxx)
Today I was happily downloading my email attatchment videos and playing them with RealPlayer when RealPlayer decide it had had enough and kept asking me to buy it before it would play the video clips. But lo and behold Windows Movie Maker jumped in and decided to play the clips. The wonder upon wonders Windows Media Player started to play them too. Spooky laptop this.
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 6:46PM on 21st May, 2012. (86.3.xxx.xxx)
Very temperamental this Samsung S3511 laptop is. Now had it a year. Been back to PC World for repair three times who tried to fx it but never did. Still keeps freezing. And have to wait for Windows to find a solution. Recover webpage. etc etc etc.
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 2:01PM on 21st May, 2012. (31.103.xxx.xxx)
My little poem jd....
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 1:59PM on 21st May, 2012. (31.103.xxx.xxx)
I don't know why we kept them Said Chief Inspector Cox We must have had a reason To place them in a box Detective Sargeant Legg Agreed that it was weird He'd seen a chin attached To a length of beard I think they were involved in crime Commander Foot explains An inquiry will be needed To why we kept the brains We will investigate Said a spokesman from the Met It will take some time To organise it yet We are working on it night and day Added Cressida Dick The heart of the matter Is solving this very quick I can assure the public Said PC Ivor Tunge That no stone will be left unturned Until we find a lung. We have done nothing wrong Said the Commissionaire It's only scraps of tissue And a little bit of hair We will work tirelessly With very little rest And solve this case in no time Commented PC Andy Brest Any body with information Should get straight on the phone Just dial 999 and ask for PC Bone....
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 1:12PM on 21st May, 2012. (31.103.xxx.xxx)
Police have been storing body parts since 1960 it has been revealed. Limbs, organs and brains.
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 10:42AM on 21st May, 2012. (31.103.xxx.xxx)
Something tells me history is repeating itself. I think we're heading for a catastrophy. Like the one after the Nazi Olympics of 1936. All friends together and then WW2........money is the cause....there will be a bigger recession than we've ever known before in history. And then the nutty nationalists will come out of the sewers. I suppose it had to happen with the collapse of the daft euro . We never learn. But this time there are Nukies around..boom boom boom....
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 10:27AM on 21st May, 2012. (31.103.xxx.xxx)
Time for tiffin now. PG cuppa. And Kiplings slices......Ginger's had the ham, chicken, sardines etc etc. He's put on a lot of weight.recently and finds it difficult to jump the fence to get home (wherever that may be). So I'll have to supply him/her with a box/ladder to help him....
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 10:23AM on 21st May, 2012. (31.103.xxx.xxx)
There should be a spell check app on this phone methinks. Probably one on the android Play Store?
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 10:21AM on 21st May, 2012. (31.103.xxx.xxx)
guard.....spell...
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 10:20AM on 21st May, 2012. (31.103.xxx.xxx)
The Olympic flame snuffed it. So they had to get a replacement. I think the Metropolitan Police gaurd - the Torch Protective Team - are a trifle agressive with their gaurding the Olympic flame. Behave more like bouncers than policemen. I suppose they are not policemen at all. Let's hope they have all been vetted???
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 10:11AM on 21st May, 2012. (31.103.xxx.xxx)
I once saw a film where u could do that. They've actually sent particles I think. But it might be a long time to be able to send a pair of socks by email attatchment....
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 10:09AM on 21st May, 2012. (31.103.xxx.xxx)
Amazing stuff one can do now on emails with mobile phones etc. I've sent video clips and pics to my rellies from this phone. Soon be able to send parcels I should reckon. (:-).
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 10:06AM on 21st May, 2012. (31.103.xxx.xxx)
Hi y'all, the Greenwich cranky is here. Dull weather here. Sad to read of the death of another 60s star. Robin Gibb.
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 1:17AM on 21st May, 2012. (31.104.xxx.xxx)
The reason we can see the electromagnetic waves (light) from stars billions of miles away is that they are so big. If we didn't have eyes to receive those waves and see them William Hill would be giving 500/1 odds that they exist.......
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 1:11AM on 21st May, 2012. (31.104.xxx.xxx)
Good night folk, just been thinking about the bet I placed with William Hill that we will get a message from ET in the following 12 months. They've given me 500/1. We have millions of these messages from other civilisations in the universe all the time. The reason we have never picked up one is that there are so many and scientists haven't found a way of seperating them out yet. The Universe has trillions and trillions of planets orbiting trillions of stars like our sun. So one day someone will find a way of receiving these extraterrestrial signals. I believe it will be very soon. Even though the distances these electromagnet radio waves have to travel is enormous.
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 7:45PM on 20th May, 2012. (178.110.xxx.xxx)
Got any more like that Wanders? (:-)
HAVERHILL, UKPosted by THE WANDERER at 7:35PM on 20th May, 2012. (86.29.xxx.xxx)
The teenage granddaughter comes downstairs for her date with this see-through blouse on and no bra. Her grandmother just threw a fit, telling her not to dare go out like that!
The teenager tells her "Loosen up Grams. These are modern times. You gotta let your rosebuds show!" and out she goes.
The next day the teenager comes downstairs, and the grandmother is sitting there with no top on. The teenager wants to die.
She explains to her grandmother that she has friends coming over and that it is just not appropriate...
The grandmother says, "Loosen up, Sweetie. If you can show off your rosebuds, then I can display my hanging baskets." :P
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 3:00PM on 20th May, 2012. (178.110.xxx.xxx)
There are obviously many involved in terrorist attacks. We must be prepared now for the next attack. Remember the 7/7 bombing on the London underground in 2005 was a day after it was announced the UK was staging the Olympic Games.
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 2:48PM on 20th May, 2012. (178.110.xxx.xxx)
Watching the news on tv. Waiting for President Obama to announce officially that Megrahi has died. Megrahi studied in Cardiff Wales. Perhaps we will never know exactly who was behind the Lockerbie bombing. But there must have been more than one person involved in my opinion.
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 1:58PM on 20th May, 2012. (178.110.xxx.xxx)
SKY NEWS Breaking News Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over 'Blasphemy'
Last Updated: 1:10PM 20/05/2012
Pakistan has blocked Twitter over "blasphemous material" on the social networking site.
Some reports claimed a planned competition to post caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed on the microblogging site prompted the ban.
Islam strictly prohibits the depiction of any prophet as blasphemous.
"This has been done under the directions of the ministry of information technology. It's because of blasphemous content," Mohammed Yaseen, chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), told Reuters.
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 1:51PM on 20th May, 2012. (178.110.xxx.xxx)
BBC NEWS Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing above Scotland which killed 270 people, has died at his home in the Libyan capital Tripoli.
Megrahi, 59, was convicted by a special court in the Netherlands in 2001.
He was released from prison in Scotland in 2009 on compassionate grounds. He was suffering from cancer and was said to have only months to live.
When he returned to the Libyan capital, he received a hero's welcome.
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 1:29PM on 20th May, 2012. (178.110.xxx.xxx)
Good morning all Yes hayley, I understand what you say. To be able to voice our differing oppinions on this truly great website for everyone is all because of ordinary men paying the ultimate sacrifice in two world wars. They will be remembered forever. They gave me my future and freedom by laying down their lives. All the best to your son with his charity bike ride.
westerham, englandPosted by hayley at 5:59AM on 20th May, 2012. (2.96.xxx.xxx)
jd Im so glad wecan sensibly and calmly agree to differ on what after all is your homeland website whatever its official title might be.. I have always totally respected differing points of view provided they were based on sensible and founded reasoning and I certainly dont wish that to sound patronising please. In fact if you and I have some differing views and can express them in a friendly manner that is in fact the principal for which all those young men and women made the ultimate sacrifice in recent modern history. Without bothering to mention names I can assure you JD if I had any choice in the matter I would make quite a few of the extended royal family redundant tomorrow I am just waiting now for son to arrive to collect his bike to go on his 100 mile charity ride for Help for Heroes. Three weeks ago when training he badly pulled a muscle in his back and subsequentlyspent £ 200 on osteopathy so he wouldnt let anyone down. He said if necessary he would push the bike for 100 miles rather than let his friends down.
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 2:23AM on 20th May, 2012. (31.103.xxx.xxx)
Sorry hayley, you're right, it's not a perfect world. I'm just coming round from my fit. I never did grow up. I'm still the boy standing on the table in the Mortar pub in Woolwich waving my little red flag, singing the Internationale. Sad isn't it? True though. Maybe something in my early years did this. I think I was the rebel without a cause. The thrill of it all. My imagination used to soar to great heights then. Maybe it was the five pints of Guiness I drank that gave me the courage...But as you say the Stalin brigade were awful ****** . To me in those far off days they were all perfect. I couldn't see the wood for the Red Flag. Or vice versa. I'll go to that perfect world one day.
Greenwich, UKPosted by jdedman at 0:15AM on 20th May, 2012. (31.103.xxx.xxx)
My father told me the story of the day the army officers ( some giant Canadian) in his Hampshire regiment sh*t on the barrack floor and told dad to clean it up. Dad swung his rifle around at them and said "you clear your own sh*t up." They must have got a surprise when little (5 foot 3 ) Private Alfred Edward Dedman disobeyed that order. He marched out. They never said a word.
