Extinct or missing?

I finished the amphibians website for PPNE on Sunday & I started on the new one, for fishes. One of my main data sources is the IUCN, but they seem to be inconsistent with what extinct means. For example, they list many amphibians, small crepuscular creatures living in jungles  which haven't been seen for years as probably extinct.But then they don't do the same for several types of hound shark that haven't been caught in a few years.

It's a bit like Cuvier's rash dictum, no new large animals remain to be discovered, then they found a lot more. If a fish hasn't been seen for years, & you assume its because it lives in the ocean & is therefore hard to find, then surely the same should apply to a tiny frog in the Amazon? 

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I just fed my three cats the new Harry Hill catfood, all three liked it. Every moggy loves a ham & lamb.

She doesnt change

The "journalist" Carole Malone used to write for the Sunday People before she jumped ship to the News of the World. That ship then sank under her & the sanctimonious old hag is back in the People as a guest columnist, spewing out the same old bile.

In a story I completely missed, Bill Roache claimed he'd shagged 1000 women. Doubt it, says Ms Malone. Pewrhaps he'd have stopped at 999 if Carol Malone had been no 1000. Then she sneers at Prince Harry's search for a woman as he's "mad, bad & dangerous to know".

I do beleive the woman is demented. Still, we all know that Harry won't be stooping to taking a Bosnian lover much younger than him;after all, self important moralising columnists like that hatchet faced old harridan wouldn't approve.

They prefer to lead the way in that area themselves. The woman is a hypocrite of the first order!

I also noted another hypocrite, that cardboard President Hamid Khazi (Yes I use that spelling as he is a shithouse) is now bleating on about how he won't stand any more nonsense from the US Forces that support this corrupt weasel. He says he's reached the end of his rope.

No mate, that comes after the allies pull out of your country & you have to take some responsibility for it.  


I opened up a new website as part of my rebuilding of PPNE last night, for fishes.Last time I got that far it took me four years from the start of the project but I already had most of the data, this time round it's taken less than two years!

Two days I shall ignore

This weekend |I shall not be bothering with either of the days that many will celebrate. Today I will ignore St Patrick's day, Around the world people who's only claim to being Irish was that they once drank a Guinness or listened to a Daniel O'Donnell CD  will swathe themselves in green clothing & ginger whiskers, talking in some sort of incomprehensible brogue like they have a minor speaking part in Father Ted.

They can all fuck off, Guinness is disgusting, it makes you fat & turns you shit black. And besides, St David was Welsh!

The second is Mothering Sunday, for more personal reasons. I lost my mother twenty nine years ago & to be honest I've lived the greater part of my life without such support as other's may have had from their mothers. I haven't bothered for years to be truthful

Progressing nicely

Without going into too much detail, yesterday I completed the second part of my new job training which culminated in a succesful interview set up for the magazine. And another one to take place today.

One thing which amazes me is that in hard economic  times Positive Publications are only covering European companies , an area most of the competition won't go near,claiming that European companies are up the spout.  But not only  are they selling space but selling a lot of it, daily, like clockwork.

I still haven't done all of the training but I can see that the methods they use bring results & it really is a simple process. You start with a mass of leads & look for companies who will do interviews , & nothing is ruled out as  a potential feature.

It may seem omnivorous to some but it obviously works!

This is funny?

There are a whole raft of things in this world which purport to be funny but are not. Ricky Gervais used to be but isn't any more. Penny Smith who used to present GMTV thought she was funny, yes about as funny as a child's funeral. Sarah Millican & John Bishop are now on telly so much that they've ceased to be funny due to over exposure & Michael McIntyre has stopped being funny because he has become a parody of himself.

But the ACME of unfunny has to be Stacia Briggs in the Evening News. A supposedly humourous light hearted piece about the decline of Blue Peter was light hearted but just plain stupid. I understand she also writes their Twitter feed.

More  Twatter than twitter.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, this blog is full of crap & I dont get paid for it. Perhaps the woman is onto something.

Oh please....

There was a recent booksigning at Jarrolds in Cromer. A local author signing his book, about as well attended as a strip show starring Willliam Shatner. Such is the power of ego though that the guy is back for another one at the Tourist Information Centre in a week or two.

I can only assume that his book isn't selling as well as he thought & he's prostititing himself to get more sales at the "invitation" of the local council.

All in favour but...

There was a report on the Beeb ce soir about the problem of female unemployment. 1.2m women are out of work. The trouble is that two of the examples the Beeb picked weren't exactly the sort you could sympathise with. An unemployed management consultant. An unemployed youth worker. A mother who found childcare too expensive.

I think they're out of touch. Yes, I feel sorry for anyone who wants to work & us unable to find a job. I was lucky, I was unemployed two weeks. But the jobs these people do hardly reverberate with Joe Public. A management consultant? They borrow your watch & tell you the time! A youth worker? Nanny state busybodies. I had some sympathy for the mum though.

For she faces the same issue many working mums, many WORKING CLASS mums face. They need to work just to live, not to have a nice middle class lifestyle but to have neccessities, to provide for their kids.

Come on BBC, show some decent examples, unemployed female factory workers etc, not some pointless professions that no one really gives a shit about.

Something your licence payers can really relate to!