Others
however prefer to watch Cheese mature. A LARGE
English cheddar cheese has become a star of the internet, attracting more than
one million viewers to sit and stare at it as it slowly ripens.
First placed in
front of a webcam in late December, the Westcombe cheddar from West Country
Farmhouse Cheese makers leaped to public attention in early February and has
since attracted viewers from 119 countries.
“The hits
went over one million this morning. It has been a real challenge keeping the
cheese up and running with all the interest it has generated,” a spokesman
for the company running the website, www.cheddarvision.tv,
said overnight.
Watchers have
tuned in from as far afield as Albania and New Zealand, although most are from the United States.
“The whole
idea was to show people how real food is made – and it seems to be
working,” cheese maker Tom Calver said.
“It takes a
year for the cheese to mature. This is not fast food. It is slow food.” (source).
What-ever
fills your day up.!!
Others
however prefer to watch Cheese mature. A LARGE
English cheddar cheese has become a star of the internet, attracting more than
one million viewers to sit and stare at it as it slowly ripens.
First placed in
front of a webcam in late December, the Westcombe cheddar from West Country
Farmhouse Cheese makers leaped to public attention in early February and has
since attracted viewers from 119 countries.
“The hits
went over one million this morning. It has been a real challenge keeping the
cheese up and running with all the interest it has generated,” a spokesman
for the company running the website, www.cheddarvision.tv,
said overnight.
Watchers have
tuned in from as far afield as Albania and New Zealand, although most are from the United States.
“The whole
idea was to show people how real food is made – and it seems to be
working,” cheese maker Tom Calver said.
“It takes a
year for the cheese to mature. This is not fast food. It is slow food.” (source).
What-ever
fills your day up.!!
To join SOCA, it
appears that police have to resign and become civil servants working a
37.5-hour week, according to Matt Loney on ZDNet.
We hear that
police do have their salaries protected when they resign to join SOCA, which
succinctly describes itself as an executive non-departmental public body
sponsored by, but operationally independent from, the Home Office.
“The powers
that be are not best pleased that the people in charge of our national security
might all have to go home at 5.30 on a particularly bad day,” comments our
source.
This issue might
help explain the drubbing
that SOCA received in a report
written in January by detective chief inspector Charlie McMurdie of the Met's
specialist crime directorate.
NuLab –
Destroying Britain from the inside out.
To join SOCA, it
appears that police have to resign and become civil servants working a
37.5-hour week, according to Matt Loney on ZDNet.
We hear that
police do have their salaries protected when they resign to join SOCA, which
succinctly describes itself as an executive non-departmental public body
sponsored by, but operationally independent from, the Home Office.
“The powers
that be are not best pleased that the people in charge of our national security
might all have to go home at 5.30 on a particularly bad day,” comments our
source.
This issue might
help explain the drubbing
that SOCA received in a report
written in January by detective chief inspector Charlie McMurdie of the Met's
specialist crime directorate.
NuLab –
Destroying Britain from the inside out.
Boris
Yeltsin passed away on Monday aged 76, and is laid to rest this morning, with a
full state funeral that befits a man who was responsible for the collapse of
the communist regime.
I
was lucky enough to spend some of my years living and working in Moscow, and was there during the
1995 elections for the Duma, which were unfortunately marred with the bombings
of a shopping centre and the Moscow Metro system.
But Yeltsin
was a man of energy and foresight. He knew that he needed to bring the younger
generations into politics in Russia, and feted their attention
in a variety of ways, most notably by putting on a fashion show with Claudia Schiffer, and
introducing Muscovites to the fantastic music of Deep Purple with a live
concert at the Moscow Dynamo stadium, which I attended. (15 call backs for
Smoke on the Water).
A
brave man, some would say that from his peasant upbringing in Nizhniy Novgorod,
to his being catapulted into the second most powerful position in the world
would drive anyone to drink, but without doubt a man of the people, a link to
his past that was never forgotten, either by him or the people he fought for.
A man who I very much liked and admired.
We raise
a glass of vodka and wish him well, wherever he goes from here. Nasdrovya!
Boris Yeltsin
We
don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like
air. When you have it, you don't notice it.
Boris Yeltsin, 1995
