Rabbit Thought of the Day

It’s definitely getting colder, have just ventured outside to take a phone and there is quite a chill in the air, which is not looking good for my trip to Aberdeen. It also won’t be very nice tonight while I am out on bike. But at least I have some warm clothes for both events, so I’ll be ok.

I must admit it’s practically warm sat at my desk, looks like I will have to dig my jersey out of the wardrobe for tomorrow, I hate being cold!

Well, I’m really happy with IT, they have just been round and managed to fix my email (Lotus Notes) without any problem in fact it took them less than 5 minutes to do it.

I’m not going to bother with a welcome page now, I think I’ll just stick with the inbox and calendar, you can’t go wrong with simple things. Mind you I’m very impressed with IT, they are now back on my Christmas card list.

The world's heaviest man has married his girlfriend in front of TV cameras and 400 guests in Mexico. Manuel Uribe was taken to his wedding on the bed he has been unable to leave for the last six years, towed by a truck, in his home town of Monterrey. The 43-year-old tipped the scales at 560kg (88 stones) in 2006, but has since shed around 250kg (39 stones).

A tearful Mr Uribe married Claudia Solis, 38, in a ceremony filmed by a US TV channel. Mr Uribe earlier told reporters: "I'm very happy this is a really special day for me. God has permitted this day to arrive and for a beautiful woman like Claudia to marry me. We will start a new adventure together."

Mr Uribe's custom-made bed was decorated with a canopy, flowers and gold-trimmed bows at it was towed by a truck through the streets of Monterrey to a local hall for the civil service, the Associated Press news agency reported. He wore a white silk shirt and a sheet wrapped around his legs, while his bride wore a strapless ivory dress and tiara.

Instead of a first dance, the pair are reported to have sat together, holding hands and swaying to the song. Mr Uribe's mother, Orquedia Garza, said her son had steered clear of the five-tiered wedding cake - a vow he made when he announced his engagement at the start of the month. "He didn't break his diet," she told the AP. "His doctors are here and they are watching him closely."

Manuel Uribe, a former mechanic, entered the Guinness Book of Records as the world's heaviest man when he weighed 560kg - the weight of a small truck. He has since been following the Zone Diet - consisting of a strict formula of carbohydrates, proteins and fats - which has enabled him to nearly halve his body weight. However, he remains unable to walk. He met Claudia four years ago and the couple were engaged for the last two years.

The wedding was filmed by the Discovery Channel for a forthcoming documentary

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A group of boys who stole a golf buggy from a resort in northern Australia sparked a low-speed highway chase when they were pursued down a major highway by two resort employees in a second buggy.

The chase occurred last Monday when the five boys, aged between 10 and 16, took the buggy from the resort near the city of Darwin, the Northern Territory police force said in a statement on its Website.

After running along the main Stuart Highway, the chase ended when police arrived and the boys abandoned the buggy. One of them, a 10-year old, was arrested, but the others escaped. The buggy was retrieved and returned to the resort undamaged, police said.

SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean golfer has paid a heavy price for an embarrassing shot that landed his caddy in hospital. The golfer, identified by the country's Supreme Court only as "Jung," was fined 2 million won (911 pounds) for the incident, which occurred at a club in Gunsan Province more than two years ago.

Media reports said Jung had wound up a huge swing at the third hole but when his left foot slipped, the ball rocketed off in the wrong direction and struck his caddy -- standing eight metres behind him -- in the stomach. The caddy needed seven weeks of hospital treatment.

The Supreme Court recognized lower courts' ruling that Jung had violated the duty of due care to prevent injury to others while playing a sport. "In events such as boxing or judo, injury to the opponent is to be expected so there is that mitigating circumstance," the court said. "But in golf, it is unreasonable to expect a caddy should anticipate injury to him or herself."

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man set fire to the hotel where he was due to get married at the weekend, rather than go through with the ceremony later the same day, newspaper reports said Monday.

Tatsuhiko Kawata, 39, had gone along with wedding plans despite already having a wife, the Yomiuri newspaper said. "I thought if I set a fire I wouldn't have to go through with the wedding," the Yomiuri quoted him as telling police.

Guests at the hotel were evacuated and no one was injured when he set the fire in the early hours of Sunday morning at the resort hotel in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo. Kawata and his fiancee had been set to get married before 80 guests. He was arrested after suddenly cancelling the event and behaving suspiciously, the Yomiuri said.

Great isn’t it, I have been here a exactly a week, and I have already had IT running around in circles, now I buggered up my email account. This company uses Lotus Notes rather than Microsoft organiser. So I was messing round with and setting what they call a welcome page, when the system closed and I can’t re-open it. I have raised a fault report on IT where no doubt my name will mud.

Oh well that’s what they get paid for, fixing faults, someone has to keep them employed, if every thing went perfectly we wouldn’t need an IT department.

A good morning so far, I have just broken off for a well deserved cup of fruit tea (blackcurrant). Am trying to get up to speed to site we are visiting on Thursday, I have just checked the weather as a matter of course and it’s not looking promising. The forecast is for SNOW, and its going to be bloody cold, why can’t this company have some nice projects where it’s hot, like the south of Spain or somewhere similar. The highland of Scotland is not the place to be stuck on a mountain side trying to do work. Looks like I’ll have to get my thermals out!

Joking a side, the project looks good, not too many problems so far we are just visiting for to check when the site is going to be finished and to arrange the site acceptance tests, the client will be in attendance and will have to sign the results sheets assuming that all goes well that’s is.

Hello friends and fellow bloggers, welcome once again to Monday and the beginning of a brand new working week. I nice drive to work this morning, in daylight for a change; unfortunately it won’t be long before it will be dark once again for the drive in the mornings.

It has been a great weekend, lots great exercise and relaxing at the same time, I should be to get stuck properly this week, although Thursday and Friday I will be in Aberdeen, but I now have plenty of meaningful work to do, and it’s far more interesting then the other company.