RabidTommy

Lol, going 'green' is definitely a booming industry riddled with excessive costs: whilst I was on holiday at the Woolacombe Bay Hotel a couple of weeks back I had the rare displeasure to endure day time telly for the first time in years. I was watching the BBC's working lunch, they had the Shell UK Chairman James Smith on the program, going on about Climate Change. He was palpably excited, you could see it in his eyes, practically beaming with zealous joy, especially when he proudly proclaimed that its the government's job to subsidise his business so that they can invest in technology to mitigate the damaging affects of climate change. Cringe!!!!!! I was having a bad week last week (having put 55 hrs in at the office), when the HadleyCRU scandal broke ... after which I was jumping for joy!! :hyper:

Have followed this story since the moment it broke out ... It's amazing as I've witnessed the blogosphere unfold the story, the amount of 'chinese whispers' getting compounded across multiples of postings, but in large the coverage across the internet has been fairly consistent ... but where the flipping hell are the main stream media? Trying to work out how to retract 5 years worth of propaganda I suspect! The most important part however, now that the excitement over the leaked emails has subsided, is definitely the computer code that was leaked. As a software engineer, I'm absolutely appalled at the process that these so called "scientists" have been following. They've made a total balls over their datasets, to the point whereby the metadata required to accurately describe the data they were working with has been lost or destroyed. Fail. A good point though, is whether the information was leaked and/or hacked. Apparently, it was more likely leaked, the story of a "hack" might very well be spin to cast doubts over the legal legitimacy of the published material. Either way- they have been reported to the Information Commissioner, as they appeared to have destroyed data relating to a freedom of information request after the request had been submitted to them, which basically means they're screwed. Interesting link on that topic: http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/campaign/2009/11/cru-emails-reveal-inconvenient-truths-about-foi.html AR4 is an IPCC report that Keith Briffa and others at the CRU worked on together, and at least one FoI request on exactly this correspondence had apparently been submitted by a David Holland on May 5th 2008. The Freedom of Information Act 2000 expressly forbids - on pain of criminal conviction - destroying information that has been requested under FoI. As the Information Commissioner puts it:

My dad was driving my zed up the m5 first thing this morning to take it to see Jeff @ Zedworld .. could of been mine but its a j-reg. Have had the patience of a saint past three weeks after I bought it but not been able to drive it - having a hard time on a software project at the moment, last 3 weeks has been stress hell, during which had to sell my old car too as only have one parking space! 1 weeks holiday starts this evening at 6pm for a week and now I have my zed too! :hyper: Don't ya just love it when everything comes together? :) On a negative note its my partners birthday today and I haven't yet got her presents .. :rolleyes:

Burglary was actually reducing this time last year according to the official stats, attributable to an increase in high-tech security setups. Won't be too long until we gladly install the 'last mile' of surveillance infrastructure ... lol :(

Once upon on a time, on a particularly vicious country lane, I was crawling up a hill going less than 10mph, when this young lass in a metro came caining it around a corner at the top- she promptly slammed on the anchors and locked her brakes alllllllllll the way down the hill, forcing me to evade a head on collision and dump my dads car into the hedge! My front wheel ended up in a hidden gulley, destroying the suspension, whilst she scraped her metro all the way down the drivers side. These were the days before camera phones & her family was first on the scene, them being local and all ... it ended as knock for knock, despite several yards of tyre marks!!!! :mad::mad: The car was only a Citreon BX though, phew ;)

The best insurance (and deterrence) would be to allow individuals the right to defend their own property, but we all know thats not going to happen any time soon ...

Remember, the government is always right!

Yep 99 rear lights are probably the only things I am planning on adding, along with some USB/Bluetooth enabled audio. Might change to a 99 spec front bumper, but that might mean having to address the mottled finish on the skirting, so might not. We'll see!

Could be why he wasn't asking too much for it! Theres a bit of red beneath the white paintwork on the boot, he said that it used to be red ... could be blood?! :rofl: Aye they're very nice in white (although I would say that ;)), statistically safer too, apparently. Bonus!

Thanks all! Nothing big planned, the wheels need a bit of a refurb but I might change them as the previous owner said he was quite surprised at how quickly these had deteriorated. AFAIK he was after something more open top/convertible, he did remark that he wasn't sure what he'd do without it though! Unfortunately only got space for one car in Leicester at the moment so she's parked safe and sound down in Somerset :) Got a bitch of a software project due end of Nov too so time is tight at the moment for doing things other than working, need to do a few bits to my Calibra before I can sell it. Dammit!!!

Woop!!!! Just bought this off a nice chap from round Midsomer Norton way, a nice white 1992 uk spec: (photos from a facebook album, not sure if they hot link ok) It does have an intermittant high idle and a small patch of rust on the inner rear wheel arch drivers side, right at the bottom of the skirting. Hope to get these rectified once I've sold my Calibra (that I've had for 5 years and shall sorely miss). Fun times ahead!