You lucky people in the UK are getting a taste of our weather. Beautiful sunshine and cloudless skies….no actually. We had grey skies and a little bit of cool weather this afternoon. Things are beginning to look up. Anne went for her first physio session tonight and the cat is eating again. He turned his nose up at the tinned food and I don’t blame him. The food stank to the high heavens and I wouldn’t really expect any God fearing cat to touch it.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. – George Sand, 1804-1876
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. – Lord Byron, 1788-1824
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. – Norman Thomas, 1884-1968
I don’t know how genuine the following is but……
Someone is sending out a very cute screensaver of the Budweiser Frogs. If you download it, you will lose everything! Your hard drive will crash and someone from the Internet will get your screen name and password! DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! It just went into circulation yesterday. Please distribute this message. This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it. This information was announced yesterday morning from Microsoft. Please share it with everyone that might access the Internet.
Let’s check the weather….
| forecast | min | max | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| °C | °C | |||
| Wed |  |
Increasing sunshine | 19 | 24 |
| Thu |  |
Sunny | 18 | 25 |
| Fri |  |
Mostly sunny | 19 | 26 |
| Sat | |
Mostly sunny | 19 | 23 |
This should keep the tourists happy!
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From SpanishVida
In recent years the resident population in Spain has begun an unexpected recovery.
At the beginning of the 1990s, demographers and other experts announced that the population showed a tendency to decline and that the figure of 40 million inhabitants would therefore not be reached in the short term.
However, the massive influx of immigrants has overturned these projections and the resident population in Spain has not only broken through the 40 million threshold but now, at the beginning of the 21st century, continues to grow.
In fact, according to the official figures from the municipal registers, for the first time ever Spain’s resident population has surpassed the 44 million mark.
Hence, on 1 January 2005, Spain was home to 44,108,530 people, of whom 3,730,610 were non-nationals.
This barrier of 44 million inhabitants was overcome when the resident population in Spain rose by 910,846 in 2004 – a record growth since population data began to be collected.
In relative terms, the annual increase was 2.1%. This strong growth in the number of inhabitants is mainly explained by the 696,284 foreign citizens who enrolled on the municipal register, representing 76.4% of the total population growth in Spain. The figure for new enrolments by Spanish nationals was 214,562.
By gender, 50.6% of the resident population in Spain are women and 49.4% men. By age, 15.2% of the people registered are under the age of 16, 44.8% are aged between 16 and 44, and 40% are over 45 years old.
Word of the Day
El resumen reh-soo’-men (noun)
summary
EXAMPLES
¿Leíste el resumen del proyecto antes de la cita? – Did you read the project summary before the meeting?
Necesito que hagan un resumen de este ensayo para mañana. – I need you to summarize this essay for tomorrow.
IDIOMS
En resumidas cuentas – To sum up
En resumen – In short
For more information and examples, visit the SpanishDict.com entry for El resumen.
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* Call It Twine? Twitter Makes Wine for Charity *
Everyone likes a wine with character. How about one with 140 of them?
Yes, the people at Twitter — the social media site on which users post messages no longer than 140 characters — are getting into the wine business, putting together an ambitious project aimed at raising money for literacy.
Go here for complete news story.
* Bloggers Unite on Climate Change *
It is being billed as the largest-ever social change event on the Web and one which its organizers believe will unite the digital world in a wider conversation about climate change.
The third annual Blog Action Day is bringing together thousands of bloggers to discuss the same issue on the same day.
Go here for complete news story.
* Rags-to-Riches Tramp Bags Fortune in Bottles *
A 63-year-old homeless Russian man has gone from street life to stock market trader after collecting thousands of empty booze bottles for cash, a popular Russian tabloid reported on Tuesday.
Pictured in a majestic purple suit and matching violet jewelry, Leonid Konovalov told the Tvoi Den paper he collected around 2,000 bottles a day over the past year since the economic downturn hit Russia last autumn.
Go here for complete news story.
Dear Tech Support,
Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend to Husband and noticed a distinct slowdown in overall system performance – particularly in the flower and jewellery applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend.
In addition, Husband uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance and Personal Attention and then installed undesirable programs such as Rugby, Football, Sailing and Continuous TV. Conversation no longer runs, and Housecleaning simply crashes the system.
I’ve tried running Nagging to fix these problems, but to no avail.
What can I do?
Signed, Desperate
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Dear Desperate,
First keep in mind, Boyfriend is an Entertainment Package, while Husband is an Operating System. Please enter the command: ‘http: I Thought You Loved Me.html’ and try to download Tears.
Don’t forget to install the Guilt update. If that application works as designed, Husband should then automatically run the applications Jewellery and Flowers. But remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband to default to Grumpy Silence, Garden Shed or Beer. Beer is a very bad program that will download the Snoring Loudly Beta.
Whatever you do, DO NOT install Mother-in-law (it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources).Also, do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband.
In summary, Husband is a great system, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. It also tends to work better running one task at a time. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend Food and Hot Lingerie .
Good Luck,
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* Rags-to-Riches Tramp Bags Fortune in Bottles *
A 63-year-old homeless Russian man has gone from street life to stock market trader after collecting thousands of empty booze bottles for cash, a popular Russian tabloid reported on Tuesday.
Pictured in a majestic purple suit and matching violet jewelry, Leonid Konovalov told the Tvoi Den paper he collected around 2,000 bottles a day over the past year since the economic downturn hit Russia last autumn.
