Mini Clubman review

Don't you just love this car?

Al Gore did it

Perhaps the greatest recognition anyone can get. Al Gore gets the Nobel Peace Price of 2007. He shares it with IPCC, a UN organ.

Well deserved, I think!

Where are they?

I was watching the news yesterday about the situation in Myanmar (Burma). There were no monks on the streets. Where are they? Apparently the junta has detained a lot of them, and possibly some have managed to leave for safety, but where are the rest?

The UN envoy has now left Myanmar, after his visit, and it seems his visit had no or little effect on the situation. The World must continue to protest against the junta, or else it will just go back to being a military dictatorship.

Sputnik turns 50

Today it's 50 years since the Soviet union put the satelite Sputnik in orbit. Thus they beat the USA to it. Good for them. However, they never realised at the time how important this would turn out to be. It started the space race. The Soviet union was also first to send a living creature, the dog Lajka, into space. This was followed by sending the first human, Jurij Gagarin, into space in 1961.

The USA had to wait for their glory a few years, until they were finally able to be first to land on the Moon. They've always considered themselves superior to the rest of the World, so I think they deserved being beaten in the race to space.