GTR Green Team Racing

Decided today that I am going to redo some of my web site, and remove some of the graphic content to reduce bandwidth use (may also do the same on the GTR site). The GTR YRM team is going well, we have a few new members that have made a real difference to the team. The forum has been really busy which is very nice, even humor in there which is even better. Starting to get a little bored with the Kingdom of Loathing game, sort of run out of things to do adventure wise it is all just the same old thing each day. The chat can be fun but quite difficult to follow due to bad lag most of the time. I will stick it out for a few more weeks, but if nothing new is really going to happen or be added I will either drop the game or just play once a week or something. Had snow the past couple of days, real cold so indoors is the place to be. Looking forward to next month and my operation, also coming up is the GP season, and the release of the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Movie soon.
Happy is the way to be!

Just one world thats all!

Just one world
I came across this little flash animation, it's short but to the point, a very good point!

Only ten days left until the first GP of 2005.

Well there goes our postal service!

Competition in the post for Royal Mail

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LONDON (Reuters) - The postal service will be fully opened to competition from January 1, 2006, ending the Royal Mail's 350-year-old monopoly 15 months earlier than planned, industry regulator Postcomm says.

"After three months of consultation, a substantial majority gave the thumbs-up to competition. We can now look forward to a more innovative and efficient postal industry focused on providing customers with the services they want, rather than being told by a monopolist what services they can -- and cannot -- have," Postcomm Chairman Nigel Stapleton said in a statement on Friday.

The decision means that from 2006 licensed companies other than Royal Mail will be able to set up collection boxes, collect, transport and deliver any mail, from single letters to bulk mailings.

So far, competition has been restricted to 30 percent by value of the letters market and to companies handling bulk mail in batches of 4,000 letters or more.

This was introduced in January 2003 and licences have been granted to firms which include Europe's biggest postal server, Deutsche Post, and business-to-business mail company DX Services.

Full competition was proposed in 2002, at a time when Royal Mail -- then called Consignia -- was losing 1 million pounds a day and struggling to introduce a 3-year renewal plan.

Since then it has returned to profit and continues to dominate UK licensed letters delivery, with a 99 percent share of a market worth about 4.5 billion pounds a year, Postcomm said.

In the liberalised market, Royal Mail will still be required to provide a universal postal service for first- and second-class mail of one delivery and one collection each working day at a uniform price throughout Britain, and also provide a business mail service on universal service terms, the regulator added.

Yahoo news

Well like everything else that has gone this way I guess our postal service will go down hill even faster now.

New Movie trailer for HHGG!

See the new The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
trailer on amazon

Looking good!

Online Love Lasts Longer

True Romance: Online Love Lasts Longer
Love-hungry singles who look for romance online have an almost guaranteed chance of pairing up, says new research.Once they established a "significant" relationship through emailing and met, there was a 94% chance they would have a second date.On average the relationship lasted seven months, with almost one fifth making it past a year.

Men who used online dating services tended to be more committed to relationships, a major reason for success highlighted by the University of Bath.

Dr Jeff Gavin, who carried out the survey of 229 people, said: "It seems that these relationships have a similar level of success as ones formed in more conventional ways."

He went on: "Men open themselves up more when chat is anonymous.

"Rather than lying to each other, this means couples can form deep relationships by being more honest than they would be face-to-face."

The researchers found that women tended to be more sexual online than they would normally as the anonymity prevented them from being judged.

Although there may be still a stigma attached to online dating for older generations, for younger people it is just the same as meeting in a bar.

Some couples who have met online even spend their anniversaries chatting with their partners in cyberspace as the place they met "is special to them".

From Yahoo!

Cool!

Hemp munching cows....WoW!

Thursday February 10, 08:54 PM

Cannabis-munching cows to get change of diet in Alpine state

VADUZ (AFP) - Farmers in Liechtenstein will no longer be allowed to feed cannabis to their livestock under new rules to be introduced in March in the tiny Alpine state.

Hemp -- of which the marijuana plant is a well-known variety -- contains small amounts of THC, the active substance in hashish, and traces of the drug have been filtering through to the milk of dairy cows fed with the plant.

The levels breach the maximum limit set by the new rules, which say that animal feed must be free of any component that could have an adverse effect on humans, the country's veterinary and food controls office said in a statement.

Hemp will also be banned from the diets of meat herds, although there is no clear evidence that THC can filter through into meat.

The rules intend to bring Liechtenstein, a tiny nation of 33,000 inhabitants, in line with food standards in neighbouring Switzerland, with which it forms a customs union.

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Not sure why but this amused me to hear.
Hemp is such a useful plant why is it being pushed away, what is the reason?
I can think of no reason myself, seems a waste not to use it more.

Operation date

I got the date for my operation, 30th March so not long to go.
Happy, Happy, Happy!!!

Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy movie news, UK release date is 30th April !!!

AC/DC

AC/DC not listened to them for a while, getting a bit of head nodding, and foot tapping going here, air guitar imminent; It still sounds good to me. Done some more work in the garden today, will take a pic tomorrow and post. Looking forward to planting some more veggies this year, less beans and more spring onions.
Watched some new film called "team America" WTF! It lost me, not impressed, what a load of crud!
Been reading online Tao Te Ching some real good stuff.

Tuesday

So what has been going on then, well I have just put up the fence out back again after it blew down the other week. Going to start sorting the garden for this years veg slowly.
YRM has started another season, taking it easy this season, and just racing 3 cars. Only 32 days left until the first grand prix.
I am still off work with my hernia, and still waiting for an operation date from the hospital. Been reading Douglas Adams "last chance to see", almost finished it now, a most entertaining read. Done a little water colour painting, more practice needed.
Had to buy a new monitor, what a difference, seems the old one was worse than I thought, everything is so clear now. I will try and get back into the habit of posting on here more often again. Keep happy!