Rabbit Thought of the Day

My mobile phone as just given up the ghost, gone tits up and there fore no longer works. Well not quite my phone but the sim card. I have just spent a tortuous 40 minutes on the office phone to O2 but to no avail. I have full signal strength but it will only allow emergency calls only. After ensuring that the network is working in this area and doing the usual stuff like cleaning the sim and battery half a dozen times, the operator at O2 came to the conclusion that the sim was probably knackered and will send a new one out to me.

It’s a good that I have a works mobile that I can use while my personal one is out of commission. The strange thing is one minute its working the next it kaput! Oh well, as people say ‘Shit Happens’.

I have another interview arranged for tomorrow evening, which has me very excited, I would be employed as an electrical engineer on the refurbishment of a prestigious hotel in central London (critic clue here: sounds like a highly seasoned pork sausage available in fish and chip shops).

Fortunately the guy who is interviewing me lives only about 5 miles from me, so rather than meeting in London we are arranging to meet in local restaurant. So it will be a rather informal interview. Although formal interviews are good and have there place, I fully believe that you can get more out of person with an informal chat.

Bernann McKinney's late pit bull has been reborn as five cloned puppies -- the first successful commercial canine cloning, and no doubt the dawn of a new age.

The joyous American pet owner held the clones of her beloved terrier, Booger, at a press conference Tuesday in South Korea. She's the inaugural customer of RNL Bio, a company that teamed up with Seoul National University, which gave us the world's first cloned dog emerged in 2005.

"It's a miracle," McKinney told reporters. But might a world filled with duplicate dogs and copycats be more rightfully called a Sci-Fi nightmare?

For those of you who favor traditional parenthood (and animal husbandry), please note that the pups were nursed by two surrogate bitches, both mixed breed dogs.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tens of thousands bowed their heads at a ceremony in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Wednesday, the 63rd anniversary of the world's first atomic attack, as the city's mayor hit out at countries that refuse to abandon their bombs.

A bell tolled at 8:15 a.m. to mark the exact moment when the bomb dubbed "Little Boy" was dropped on the city, killing tens of thousands immediately and many more later from radiation sickness.

"We who seek the abolition of nuclear weapons are the majority," mayor Tadatoshi Akiba said in a speech at the Peace Memorial Park, attended by the ambassador of nuclear-armed China, as well as Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and elderly survivors of the attack.

"Last year 170 countries voted in favour of Japan's U.N. resolution calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Only three countries, the United States among them, opposed this resolution," he said.

The United States and other world powers fear Iran is developing nuclear weapons, while Tehran says its atomic programme is for power generation. Washington and others have warned of more sanctions against Tehran, which they accuse of playing for time in the dispute.

The mayor of Hiroshima also vowed to do more to help survivors still suffering the physical and mental after-effects of the 1945 attack by the United States in the final days of World War Two, which was followed a few days later by a nuclear attack on the southern Japanese city of Nagasaki.

The average age of survivors is over 75 and Akiba said he would launch a survey into the emotional damage they suffered. Fukuda echoed some of Akiba's sentiments, saying he wanted to take a lead in the campaign against nuclear weapons and try to help as many as possible of those dealing with poor health after being exposed to radiation.

"We must not repeat such a sad event," one mother attending the ceremony told broadcaster NHK. "We need to pass that message on to our children's generation."

Nobody can hide from the Catholic church even when you are on holiday they can still find you!

ROME (Reuters) - Catholic nuns and priests in Italy are following their flocks to the beach this summer, establishing an inflatable church and a beach-convent in the sands to lure sunbathers.

The 30-metre (98 ft) long blow-up church -- staffed by priests ready to take confession -- will debut on Saturday on the Adriatic coast in the Molise region, an organiser said.

"There will be four or five people singing, with music about God," said Chiara Facci with Catholic group Sentinelli del Mattino. Night time activities, which will not include Mass, will run from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.

The first attempt to inaugurate the inflatable church last month on the holiday island of Sardinia failed after strong winds forced organisers to relocate, she said.

Big cities like Rome and Milan empty in August, when Italians head to the beach for summer holidays, leaving streets empty and many businesses closed. Churches are hardly immune, and also see their congregations thin.

On the Mediterranean coast, nuns from a convent near the southern Italian city of Naples have relocated to beach cabins to join holidaymakers saying the rosary. An adjoining altar was set up under two tents.

"The concept of a beach-convent is something that is appreciated by vacationers and the nuns themselves," priest Antonio Rungi, who helped spearheaded the initiative, told Italian news agency ANSA.

How accurate is the statics supplied on here, sometimes I find the information given quite hard to believe, one day I had over a 1000 page views the next  just over 500 and then the every next only 20. Seems a bit weird to me, where as the total visitors to my site seems to be fairly constant.

Can we trust statistics?

I don’t know how many replies I will get to this request, now here is the Question.

How many serving Sappers or ex Sappers use this site, I know of 3 at the moment including myself?

It’s not really important, I was just wondering.

Once again I am the first in the office; I arrived 15 minutes just before 06:45, as few of you may know I am a bit of early bird and like to start early. It also allows me to leave early which helps with the traffic on the way home.

It’s Wednesday today the middle of the week and the count down to the weekend and begun in earnest. It looks like a busy day again today but I only have enugh to keep to occupied until the end of the week.