Strange how one story can be reported different ways and how not making as much money becomes a loss when it’s really not as much profit. Read on… IHT: Ryanair slips to a net loss … Ryanair slips to a net loss. Bloomberg News Tuesday, June 1, 2004. … It’s not really that Ryanair has…

I recieved this today as part of an email Antigen for Exchange removed anabnr2.gif since it was found to match the FILE FILTER= *.gif file filter. The file anabnr2.gif has been quarantined. To have the anabnr2.gif delivered from quarantine please forward the message with the quarantine attachment to the DEP Helpdesk and we will deliver…

25th Anniversary of Moon Handbooks South Pacific In June, 1979, Moon Publications of Rutland, Vermont, published the 1st edition of South Pacific Handbook. A quarter century later, Moon Handbooks South Pacific is still the leading travel guide to Polynesia and Melanesia, with an 8th edition due from Avalon Travel Publishing in late 2004.

If you are in London in June/July you might want to check these events out, you can get free tickets from http://www.culturalco-operation.org Cultural Co-operation is an independent arts charity that promotes cross-cultural contact, dialogue and understanding. Our main activity is the international summer Music Village, Europe’s longest running festival of world culture. The 18 Music…

I just washed my mail with mailwasher and deleted 50 of 80 emails that makes 62.5% of my mail overnight being spam, it’s definitely getting worst. Don’t know what i’d do without mailwasher Link: http://www.mailwasher.net [edit] now i’m using gmail so i’m no longer washing my mail.

My film always goes trough the filmsafe scanners and I’ve had no problems even in China where they have x-ray machines at the train stations (due to people transporting fireworks illegally causing an explosion on a train). I shoot 100ASA, 200 or maybe 400 at night possibly but generally 100 slide film on the whole…

English cathedrals wow tourists Link: www.cnn.com

News on cnn.com today:- Kazakhstan plans to build a railway along the old silk route, linking Druzhba on the border with China’s Xingjian north-western region to Iran and Turkey Link: http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/05/26/bt.silk.road.rail.reut/index.html And Virgin USA, Richard Branson’s planed budget airline, has short-listed San Francisco or New York as potential hubs. Link: http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/05/25/bt.virgin.us.move.reut/index.html Also the bbc.co.uk one…

I found this on the widescreen centre site, a list of projectors that take replicable lenses, looks promising… http://www.widescreen-centre.co.uk/videolens.html

The luckiest travellers live near airports, or so it appears, obvious, maybe? http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/ADVISOR/05/21/lucky.cities/index.htm and on the environment front, news that costal communities would be better off being environmentally friendly and protecting the habitats of sea animals like sea turtles than by destroying their habitat. “World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) says living turtles are worth…

News today that spam is on the increase, certainly as far as I can see, I seem to spend more time each day filtering it. Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3746023.stm What do you think?

An interesting slant on the Ryanair-Charleroi ruling by the European Commission. Europe’s Phoney Ryanair Fiasco by Tibor R. Machan The busy body European Commission declared that the deal Ryanair struck with the Charleroi folks was illegal. … http://www.lewrockwell.com/machan/machan31.html