I am currently trying to buy a car in Canadia. I don’t want anything special, I don’t want to pay much, I just need something solid that will work well for a few weeks. Unfortunately, it has to be a big chunky 4*4; not for cosmetic reasons but because I need to be in the [...]
The Information Superhighwayman
I am small and I don’t eat much…Superhighwayman.com
This is Michael Lawrie's Weblog. Despite years of hating "Blogs"; I have decided that these things are a nice way to present random rants and observations. Calling it a Weblog makes things easier.
Why Superhighwayman? Well why not! The only good thing to come out of the Harrods Case was the British Press christening me the "Information Superhighwayman". I liked the name, so I will use it.
Browsing Posts in Observations
Well… Chavez is back as president of Venezuela, Pinochet is still on his deathbed and Britain is still a nuclear power. Kofi Annan is still saying that Iraq and a mess, and he wishes he’d done more and Hezbollah is still causing trouble in Lebanon (which oddly, is no longer called The Lebanon). America is [...]
What an odd couple of weeks this has been in England as far as Terrorism and Espionage is concerned. The first and most obvious event is this whole Alexander Litvinenko poisoning story. A former spy, poisoned by highly radioactive Polonium-210 hidden in his Sushi with a deathbead claim that it was the Russian President wot [...]
I learned a useful thing this week when researching the origin of Quince Cheese. It all rests on the definition of the word cheese, which includes Cheese: A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese. From now on, every time I fuck up my jam making and make [...]
