It's no secret that my principle and primary purpose for having a livejournal rests entirely on the shoulders of my own entertainment and the entertainment of others. While from time to time I drop extremely heavy content on here I am not someone who maintains a livejournal because he needs to write...

Why not, eh? This homework theme about me seems to be interesting enough people so far that I should keep at it - and here goes part four, which I'm going to call my internal makeup. What the hell do I mean by that? I mean what makes me tick these days... and while there's a great more to that than ...

It seems the price of petrol and diesel may yet go higher, this time for local reasons. UK fuel tanker drivers are planning to go on strike next week. The two haulage firms, Hoyer UK and Suckling Transport, say unions rejected a pay offer which would take the drivers' average salary to £41,500 by J...

During the African Athletics Championship which took place earlier this month in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, one of the star attractions was Cameroon’s hammer throw representative, Georgina Toth. Georgina attracted lots of media attention because she is white. A 26-year old nat...

There’s a CNN TV report on the shortage of qualified medical personnel in Malawi. I zapped into it yesterday. It shows the dire situation at Mulanje District Hospital and in a rural dispensary. They interviewed a volunteer doctor from Uganda, a midwife who works in rural villages, a couple of ...