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The Lumpen is the Problem!

I noticed an article in The Jamaica Gleaner online where a popular pastor in Jamaica was castigating Don Robotham for things he had written in an article in said newspaper. “He is calling the Jamaican people ‘lumpen’!”, the pastor wrote indignantly, or at least, words very closely to that effect.
Well, this week, Don Robotham [...]

My Obligatory Hurricane Post

Well, here we are, facing another mean, menacing hurricane. Check out the picture above… as you can see, by Monday morning, we here in the Cayman Islands will be undergoing a battering. It brings back scary memories… Yup, memories of Hurricane Ivan! And memories of after Hurricane Ivan… not really scary images there, but also [...]

Just a Likkle Suggestion…

In my previous post on this blog, Island Spice (who happily is considering moving to wordpress.com so go over there and encourage her) wrote the following comment :
sigh.. I am starting to wonder about u, toro loco… how di arse yuh find time to maintain 3 blogs?? How do I decide which one to read? [...]

Dem Crazy Baldheads!

You know, I got a panic call tonight. A friend of mine had some problems with her database, necessitating recovery. Unfortunately, she isn’t an Oracle DBA and she has never recovered a database before. I have, but I haven’t done it for awhile. I therefore went to Google to scout around for the right commands, [...]

Ethanol and World Hunger!

(Fortune Magazine) — The growing myth that corn is a cure-all for our energy woes is leading us toward a potentially dangerous global fight for food. While crop-based ethanol -the latest craze in alternative energy - promises a guilt-free way to keep our gas tanks full, the reality is that overuse of our agricultural resources [...]

Mad Bull is a Real Mouth ah Massy!

You guys remember the cruise ship that caught fire on the way to Montego Bay? That was back on March 23rd… Well, I saw an article in the Daily Gleaner today which spoke to the fact that this particular cruise ship was not a regular visitor to MoBay but rather a seasonal one, which meant [...]

Big Brother Time Now!

So, today is Wednesday… remember how I said I was giving up alcohol for Lent? Well, so far, I have been doing most excellently!
The real test was on Saturday night when I went out to play pool! Normally as the night goes on, the standard of my playing deteriorates because the alcohol content [...]