It seems it is Virgin Group Month here. Yesterday, I posted about Virgin Galactic.
Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic has entered into a partnership to form a National Carrier to be called ‘Virgin Nigeria‘.
“With the appointment of Virgin, it has been agreed that the new flag carrier will bear the name ‘Virgin Nigeria’ for commercially prudent reason. The airline would be authentically Nigerian, covered by the Virgin brand, which has been quite successful in its various businesses,” Minister of Aviation, Mallam Isa Yuguda
I like the bit that it says commercially prudent. I think the company is begining to see some influx of foriegn, lets hope that is it is the start of a lot more to come.
Even though privately owned, it remains the collective property of the Nigerian nation and people and its existence must be reflective of this fact,” he added. He, however, regretted the unwillingness of Nigerian Airline Operators to respond to earlier invitations to be part of the flag carrier project but expressed hope that they would avail themselves of the new opportunities offered by the coming of Virgin Nigeria.
It is slightly discouraging that the local operators refused to join the venture. Nigeria Airways, the last national carriage before it disappeared had alot of teething problem including bad debt, bad management and entry refusal to certain parts of the world because of political reasons at that time. Richard Branson is more connected and experienced in the aviation industry so having him on board could get Nigeria the National Carriage to be proud of.
Some dude recently sold his blog for $15,000.
Any bidders for cafe151 ?
Tiddlywiki: One of the most exciting technologies/ideas/innovation I have seen recently. It’s written in HTML and JavaScript (a php version is also available) and looks to me like a handy notepad to add information. Even easier to manage than a blog. I hope the source code is released soon. Not forgetting the face that is is very slick. The only downside is the problem of not been able to save in the conventional way. I am sure that will be resolved soon.
Richard Branson’s Virgin Group has formed Virgin Galactic with the intent to take the average man to Space. It does not come cheap, apparently I will need around £115,000 in the bank before I can speak to Virgin Galactic.
If…
(with apologies to Rudyard Kipling)#
If you can keep your shares when all about you
Are selling theirs, and telling you “Sell too”.
If you can trust your savvy when all doubt you,
But with your postings make them nervous too.
If you can wait, and hold, with real devotion,
And being ridiculed just not respond.
If you feel safe to keep the shares you’ve chosen,
And shrug away all thoughts of being wrong.
If you can find the strength to watch your profit
Erode from all the stocks and shares you’ ve bought.
If you stay calm and keep your fingers off it -
Forget the “rules of trading” you’ve been taught.
If you can see no economic blunders,
If you can turn your back upon the bears,
If you are really sure your shares are wonders,
You simply have to keep, and ramp, those shares.
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With watching Markets fall and traders run,
You’ll put your earnings and life-savings in it,
And, which is more, you’ll soon be broke, my son.
#This adapted peom was posted in Shares Forum. The original “If” by Rudyard Kipling can be found here.
Actually that should read as “Back in September” after a much delayed anticipated return, I am back. Let get all pretend I never really left. Now that we have that cleared out of the way. Let do some catching up.
As of yesterday, I am offically a Geek according to two friends studying computer science at Oxford (Did I say I was studying chemical engineering). All I did was make some geeky suggestion about changes for one of them to make to his computer - see earlier post for some ideas.
Marcus has done posting on his time working at Feltham Young Offenders Institute here and here while Nosa has written an open letter to Quentin Tarantino who allegedly has a blog now maintained by his editor. Unganisha has more of his stories which absolutely amuses me.
MentalAcrobatics attended Cassidy’s concert which didn’t quite go as he planned. Jag spells out the steps for making ‘Vindaloo’ style chicken. I need to stop just reading the recipes and actually start cooking them to see some results. Apparently been able to cook as man is very attractive (should compensate for the geekness in me).
