The blog will not work tonight.
As we posted a few days ago, there is some essential maintenance taking place on the Blog network. Or something.
"The work is scheduled to begin at 1800 on Wednesday (21 May), and should be finished by 2100 at the latest."
Brace yourself.
Listen to PM
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Well all yesterday we were blogless as our ISP was having some sort of breakdown. I can't tell you how awful it was. I was forced to leave the house to get away from the trauma of not being able to access the blog & emails. I'm not at all sure how I'll cope tonight. Although we're expecting to entertain a fellow-frogger to tea, so it may be that we can just "talk" during the blog down-period - quaint as the concept seems! Would feel more normal if we were to sit in separate rooms & communicate via the computer though.
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Have you been told what the 'essential work' is? <grin>
I wonder whether while they're at it they'll fix the missing space in 'This page has 1comment shown and 0 hidden due to moderation.' on all the threads, and make me and ValP happy!
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We'd better all tie ourselves to the mast and hope that the Blog makes it through tonight's storm.
Make sure you have Jonnie's Refuge in your 'favourites' just in case, guys!
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I'm adopting the brace position as we speak Eddie..........
I've heard that there is some fairly major sporting event or other taking place tonight?? That may help alleviate the boredom and misery caused by the absence of the blog for some?
Fi x
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'Brace yourself'? Yourselves, surely? Or am I really the only reader ...
annasee - we call this 'face-mail' (used to be known as talking)
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Sid (5):
No, there's only one of us as you well know. Every single one of us is Silver Fox writing under a different name.
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Big Sister (3):
Would that be "mainbracing" ourselves?
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Oh annasee - it wasn't just me then ;o)
Now if you and your guest could sit in a glass box, we could chat about the programme on the Cransleycam!
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Is the bloglessness due in any way due to the football?
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I think we should all say something together...
Oh lordy lordy lordy
Please guide the screwdriver of the teckie chaps (and girls)
That they might smite the error 505's that have been plaguing the users,
Please make the new blog work in a civilised fashion
So that user might frog unto user
Without becoming anonymous.
Please make it crystal
as to the understanding offered to our leader Ed
So that he may dispel his confusion
And lead us forward
with multiple threads
For thou hast the digits
The binary and the coding
Till it breaks down next time
Ahem
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I think I'll hang around until 6 and see what happens.
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CG 2,
'Essential work' is giving the mods a good talking to.
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annasee 1,
I left a forum in February and life continued.
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David M - ah, but maybe you found this blog instead? And that's how life carried on. You substituted one addiction for another?
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It's after the start of the six o'clock news now. But maybe the blog is an hour out?
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Liar, liar pants on fire!!
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mind you was it 6 pm BST or 6 pm Zulu?
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Have we nearly crashed yet?
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These days there are times when I feel that politicians and both the print and broadcast media have lost touch with reality. Today was one of those days and PM was the culprit; the subject was the price of fuel at the pumps.
Put bluntly the current cost of fuel is not an irksome issue about the price of motoring, it's an issue about the depletion of oil reserves and whether the West can survive the shock of steadily reducing supplies. Your contributors fussing about the Government 'taking action' to reduce taxes are simply turkeys voting for Christmas; what they should be doing is planning a strategy for conserving stocks, a strategy which will certainly include less of the random driving and flying about that we do now so wastefully.
The current price could well indicate that peak oil has already arrived or is very close. Certainly it was predicted to peak around 2005 as far back as the 1970's by the geologist who accurately fore casted the American peak. Most independent geologists today think the forecast was about right, and no one in their right mind believes either claims of the oil companies or Opec. Shell was famously caught out in over stating its reserves, and it is entirely possible that Opec is not choosing to restrict supplies, but is unable to anything else. If I remember rightly they stopped providing figures many years ago
Edmond King from the AA suggested that the problem might be lack of refining capacity. That might be part of the problem, but given the proximity of peak oil (whether in 2005 or 2015) who in their right mind is going to spend millions on new plant. Best everyone accepts that oil reserves are under pressure and thinks about how to reduce demand and dependency.
The overarching need now is conserve stocks and high prices are a self evident need. People really must stop the profligate waste of a 'golden' resource which has been a feature of Western culture since the 1950, and start doing the sensible things: using public transport, walking and cycling, living closer to work, planning for high population density cities which are so much easier to service without cars.
As for freight, use the railways - they can run using electricity.
Sometime fairly soon the world is going to become a much bigger place, even shipping freight by boat is going to become an expensive issue. Europe may well fragment back to its old boundaries, and many think the days of the United States of America are numbered. They just won't have the oil to service governance of such a huge country.
High petrol and diesel prices are unalloyed good news. There will be hardship, but the sooner we come to terms with the finite nature of oil the less damaging the prospect is. As Realneed said: PM should be covering peak oil rather than assuming the future pressures on our lives will remain the same.
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These days there are times when I feel that politicians and both the print and broadcast media have lost touch with reality. Today was one of those days and PM was the culprit; the subject was the price of fuel at the pumps.
Put bluntly the current cost of fuel is not an irksome issue about the price of motoring, it's an issue about the depletion of oil reserves and whether the West can survive the shock of steadily reducing supplies. Your contributors fussing about the Government 'taking action' to reduce taxes are simply turkeys voting for Christmas; what they should be doing is planning a strategy for conserving stocks, a strategy which will certainly include less of the random driving and flying about that we do now so wastefully.
The current price could well indicate that peak oil has already arrived or is very close. Certainly it was predicted to peak around 2005 as far back as the 1970's by the geologist who accurately fore casted the American peak. Most independent geologists today think the forecast was about right, and no one in their right mind believes either claims of the oil companies or Opec. Shell was famously caught out in over stating its reserves, and it is entirely possible that Opec is not choosing to restrict supplies, but is unable to anything else. If I remember rightly they stopped providing figures many years ago
Edmond King from the AA suggested that the problem might be lack of refining capacity. That might be part of the problem, but given the proximity of peak oil (whether in 2005 or 2015) who in their right mind is going to spend millions on new plant. Best everyone accepts that oil reserves are under pressure and thinks about how to reduce demand and dependency.
The overarching need now is conserve stocks and high prices are a self evident need. People really must stop the profligate waste of a 'golden' resource which has been a feature of Western culture since the 1950, and start doing the sensible things: using public transport, walking and cycling, living closer to work, planning for high population density cities which are so much easier to service without cars.
As for freight, use the railways - they can run using electricity.
Sometime fairly soon the world is going to become a much bigger place, even shipping freight by boat is going to become an expensive issue. Europe may well fragment back to its old boundaries, and many think the days of the United States of America are numbered. They just won't have the oil to service governance of such a huge country.
High petrol and diesel prices are unalloyed good news. There will be hardship, but the sooner we come to terms with the finite nature of oil the less damaging the prospect is. As Realneed (No. 15) said, though in different words: PM should be covering peak oil rather than assuming the future pressures on our lives will remain the same.
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Miserableplanetlover - good to see some people are thinking about future realities ...
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MPL 20,
I heard Brownie say that everything is OK on PMQ yesterday, so it must be. I'll let you know when my wife gets back from S**nsb*rys.
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annasee 14, After over 40,000 posts on the forum, this blog is hardly an addiction. More of a waste of time between games of solitaire.
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Interesting points. I'll say one word. Economic paradigms. OK that's two words. The thing is that when predictions are made about reserves they are made using existing technology. "The oil is going to run out in 1960" was based on being able to drill 6 miles down. Then along came the techies and made drills work 8 miles and deeper. They can also drill diagonally now. I'm not saying we're ok for energy, we're not but it is not as black as many paint.
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Ah, but DMcN (23), posts aren't an indication of 'passive blogging', or feeling the overwhelming need to check jusy in case something interesting's going on, and, ooh, has anyone answered that question I asked, and who's on the beach, and...
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