A great many people undertake to stop smoking in the new year. Yet despite the ban on smoking in public introduced on July 1st in the UK last year, it doesn’t appear to be having much impact.
A little before midnight last night the bar was full people getting a drink to see in the new year. Shortly after midnight those same people were out in the garden of the pub, breathing deep on the first smoke of the year.
The way in which the law was implemented is a little odd, because liability does not lie with smoker… If you are the perpetrator of a crime you can reasonably expect to get punished if you get caught. Not so if you’re a smoker. If a smoker is caught smoking in a bar, the bar owner is fined. Just doesn’t seem right.
Apple has forced ThinkSecret to close down after posting a story about forth coming apple products in 2005, without any details of the confidential agreement there’s some speculation around.
Was there a pay off? Was it sheer legal pressure? Was it that apple was going to loose the case?
Those that know aren’t saying. For a site that came into being to expose apple secrets to die with a apple secret seems fitting, if a little ironic.
UPDATE
Strange. For a site that’s supposedly shut down, it is a little odd to be posting news days after the announcement, http://notes.thinksecret.com/
There’s some speculation here
It’s raining a lot at the moment and the entire population of London appears to have devolved into two very separate sub-species. Those that know how walk with an umbrella up, and those that don’t.
Those that don’t are beginning to annoy me.
Over on Gedblog, Gedeon, cofounder of the awesome icon factory has invited readers to post their teenage crushes. I couldn’t resist! So here are mine.
Wilma from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
The original Bionic Woman
Daisy Duke (Naturally!)
Nancy Drew from the Nancy Drew Mysteries
And finally the only one from the UK, Sarah Jane from Dr Who.
The reason is nothing more than the fact that I’m a sucker for a pretty face. Pure lust, plain and simple. Here’s everyone else’s
gedblog
Living in the now
Kaylow
Cocoia Blog
Momisodes
Russian Mafia Babe
I think I’m first up being in the UK. I can’t wait to see what Sebastiaan posts, as he says two are cartoon characters! Realistically, I can only think of Betty Rubble from the Flintstones, Penelope Pitstop from the Wacky Racers, or Daphne from Scooby Doo. That little list probably says more about me than I should mention.
IMDb for the pictures apart from Sarah Jane from the BBC and Wilma is a screen grab from a DVD
