I ask myself what I really feel about us taking oil from the falklands in the event of a big strike. I really do struggle to see how it is ours full stop. A shared somehow ownership might be the best solution. Though I'm sure we have military might heading over that way as I type, and I would support military action if there was an invasion of the falklands that is of no doubt. its a complicated world.

320 steps negotiated from the bottom of hampstead heath tube to the top. Didn't see why I needed the crappy lift and felt like I was shirking a challenge after a good session of Capoeira at the oasis leisure centre just opposite shaftsbury theatre. Its amazng that pool there in the middle of this old metropolis pretending to be roman baths but it was cool bit of a labryinth though inside still learnt a lot today as always. Capoeira is my challenge still.

Haven't managed to secure a good deal on skiing its so expensive this year and I'm holding out for Val Disere..

landed.at just rolled over into its new home, its as bad as moving home moving servers, and I'm looking at setting up a marketing campaign from the ground up using sugarCRM. Its a new direction and learning too very organic, my websites are my plants. I would like a much less technical diversion aside from Capoeira as that takes energy and mind , something a little less in need of my concentration if you like as much as I love capoeira. Capoeira one day may be a fun distraction but this is one thing you don't get any good at quickly, there are few quick returns in this game which is why I respect caporistas so much.

Might look into implementing the zend amf functionality into my flex map tool for the website.
Here is a link and I may post findings later as to how well it goes. For now my limited needs suffice with just posting data, but in future something more robust like AMF will be useful.

http://framework.zend.com/manual/1.9/en/zend.amf.server.html

I am a young joe montana but not a jerry and not an NFL up and coming.
I was watching pulp fiction this evening and contemplating the Caribbean chatting to Annelie my girlfriend and Arsenal went top of the English premier league. I texted my old bbc sport chum cliff and said at half time that if Arsenal lost this game the season would be over. I think it would have been. I was annoyed not to have been able to see the game and to learn via an update of the win was an indication to me that they really are in with a chance to take the title this year.

Drogba will find it is harder to score goals when you have to and you don't have such a relaxed position so many things in life work in this way ! Lets see if he misses when all year so far he has been pretty good. I do say so myself that he passed his initial time not doing very well but I was saying how good he was and that his time would come ! He did and I hope for Arsenal that he feels another side.

All this on the back of a Capoeira class with a different instructor which was good as cross training is good. Capoeira - why I didn't find it sooner ? There must be some bigger plan. Will the Caribbean go ahead skiing ? an exciting time a time I have a hand in

lucky me

I can finally see South America out of my window it is morning and I am feeling like a run down Copacabana. I had loaded up with a great breakfast and was ready. I had met a few of the guests and things were good. The showers and toilets left a lot to be desired and though this place was cheap it seemed to have a buzz. I was also pretty mentally not wanting to up sticks and move again especially to a place I still didnt have an address for ! I just needed the internet, tied to that invention my organisation seems to be dodgy without it. But first that run. Boy is it humid here. It was tough and I think the total length seems to be 4 or 5 miles that I will verify as I had my GPS with me. The heat killed me and I had to stop many times and stretched those legs out. But I got a massive runners high I could feel my pupils dialating and I was finally in Rio De Janeiro. That day I just stayed close to Copacabana and hunted the hostel, finally a very friendly other hostel allowed me to use their internet which was working so why not mellow yellows ? and then I got the address. Part of me it has to be said was a little unreasonable in expecting the cabbie to have waited as it wasn't a guy from the hostel who was picking up.
But there was to be a final evening in the mellow yellow a mistake perhaps as I got very little sleep and it was so hot. It is one thing being woken up it is another entirely to be woken up by lame lines trying to get one of the female backpackers in bed, guy after guy came in and she was chatting away. The final well timed approach was an asphalt from Peru and after 10 minutes of that I ended their chatter by requesting if I could borrow some ear plugs if they had them, to be fair she wanted just to go to sleep but hey why burn a seventh bridge honey ? Am I really going to be able to live like this for 5 months in Val D'Isere ? That evening was still very hot and the bar was pretty dead if you ask me and I didnt really see any party other than the guys trying to get the girls, and it was a major cockfest. Still it paid off for one guy as some of the conversation that evening had been to the effect of " I got to the door and I could hear this , uh uh uh uh ...." yes it was one of those nights. Of consequence was a period of time spent in a fun hostel in Miami beach and I started to remenisce about real parties.

Of course the hostel I was staying at was to new to be in my guide book which posed a problem, finding it. I had not taken the address in part due to my previous nights frolicking. But the taxi driver knew another place the Mellow Yellow. Rio was still shrouded in darkness except for the highway and we drove quite a way, though it was dark I felt compelled to keep my eyes open though my body again craved sleep. Then we arrived in Copacabana and the mellow yellow. I was greeted by a guy with good English and a torch, good start, and upon entering there there were travellers calling out from the dark as we ascended to the favela dorm room with 24 beds.
Under torchlight I managed to get the sheets on this plastic covered matress and the same for the pillow. Wow you have done it again crane snatched discomfort from the jaws of relative comfort. The fans were not working too so it was the chatter of drunken 20 somethings that filled the air. No matter the noise or the crackling sheets or the intense heat, my body wanted rest it was about 1 or 2 am.

The plane made good time and I started to feel normalcy again, was getting picked up to go to the hostel in Copacabana.

As an aside I had also caught somewhere my eyebrow piercing and I had to take the decision to remove it, I was fearing infection that would scar the area so I took it out on the plane, I should have done it earlier but I was very sorry to see it go.
Unfortunately there was delay due to Brazil forgetting to stick some coins in the meter or something as they had no power for the the entire country ! Oh and half of Paraguay as they power half of them too.
So no generators in the airport - I think they did have but hadnt tested them for a while as immigration did get up and running but not before I had sprawled myself across the floor in the surrounding darkness. I'm sure my driver won't stick around ! He didn't frantic for some easy after the hassle I was checking out the name boards for the first time in my life but I was unwanted.

I will never forget that walk to my home in Hampstead Heath must have had 1 hours sleep at most and the trip up the northern line had me thinking that I could squeeze 15 minutes of sleep in. I was pretty much packed and needed to leave the house at 8.30am to catch a 1200 flight to Rio De Janiero. I had had an awesome evening and night but I couldnt remember feeling the zombie that I did walking back home from the tube before. Though there was that red eye I thought would bar me from boarding to Roatan from Miami once, still I think I was still flying on something then.

I did exactly that and crashed out setting 2 alarms at risk and I couldnt face a shower and instead had a shallow bath to try and wake me up better, oh boy that was a mistake, I wanted to stay in that tub. I wanted to dream in fact I was dreaming all the way to Rio and also during the time I was asleep.

It seems crazy that we get so upset over deaths in war. Or perhaps it is that the media is giving them such strong coverage when Cancer is still such a massive killer for example. In the first day of fighting on the Somme, some 60,000 men died that's about the total American loss in their Vietnam campaign.
I can't buy this idea that we won't loose service men or women on the battlefield War is a nasty unglorious business and sometime necessary to preserve freedom and longer peace. Yes every loss on either side is an unfortunate death but in my eyes no better or worse than a death through famine or a traffic accident.

But where are the smart people ? Is it really socialism or capitalism nothing instead, has not politics evolved or developed is there not another idea even a rough model I can work with that satisfies man's inequalities as a perfect idea will fall flat when it comes to man. We need something that will work with greed and control, dominance ...its not just man, in nature there is no equality you are better and you get your wicked way with your mate and that is why people die in wars.

I'm in a different class these days and it is of the Cordao de Ouro Clan. I do like it in my local swiss cottage leisure centre. It started to click again after too long away and missing too many classes due to its popularity and one hell of a hangover on a recent Sunday. Still today is Wednesday a good day for me.

I mixed well and started to really get into the music again. Then off to Capoeira and a good class my fitness level coming back up and then on to the finchley road walkabout to watch Arsenal go through in the champions league, could it get any better ? Yes Lyon also qualifying probably at the expense of Liverpool, they won in Europe enough already no ?