Regarding my previous post janie sent me this !

As usual I can think of all sorts of smart ass comments…but I’ll leave them to you lads….and lassies..

According to the Guardian this morning the RAF (that’s the Royal Air Force for those not up on their military acronyms!) had to scramble fighter jets on Tuesday to intercept two unidentified aircraft which turned out to be Russian military planes. The Russians turned back before reaching UK airspace and no direct contact occurred however the fact that the RAF felt the need to scramble is in itself worrying.

This comes in the same week that the UK sent four Russian diplomats home as relations between the two nuclear powers worsens. Coincidence? Perhaps, but I think not. We could be witnessing the beginnings of a very serious situation.

Although it is unthinkable and beyond comprehension for those of us living the dream in Celtic tiger Ireland statistically Europe is due a good scrap. Those of us who survive to tell the tale might rue the day we heard the name Alexander Litvinenko.

There are fears in some circles that President Putin is A: Gunning for a fight and B: Looking for any excuse to install himself leader of the Russian Federation beyond the end of his present term in office. We have in the world today a disturbingly blood thirsty bunch in power. It is easy for us to forget that many of our EU neighbours are effectively at war alongside the US while the Russians continue to fight the 2nd of their wars in Chechnya… So is it really that far fetched to suggest that the UK and Russia might square up?

What would the consequences be for us? Given our inablilty to defend ourselves against a well motivated rogue FCA unit and our proximity to the UK I would suggest their might just be a dip in house prices!

I recently upgraded my phone and got a Nokia 6300. Since posting about it some interesting comments have come in, and I also I’ve been using the phone for a while so i thought I would add an update.

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It looks like 3G isn’t on half as many people’s phone’s as I thought it was. Of course, it’s hardly a conclusive sampling, but here are the current results of the poll:

38% don’t use it because their phone doesn’t support it, a further 24% just don’t use it at all.
Personal use is slightly ahead of business use at the moment…

Yes, i know 21 people isn’t a conclusive sampling , that’s why you should go and take part now…!