Why is nothing happening...

Well, you gotta go here:

http://lokisecretdiary.blogspot.com

Fun links...

Try these:

For a diy energy drink:

http://yaniverse.blogspot.com/2006/11/best-diy-energy-drink-known-to-men.html

For Google Webmastering:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

Go here if you dare...

Links I love are here:

http://www.mysterylist.com/top50.htm

Some Leonardo Drawings

These drawings I took from a monster book in the bookshop at the National Gallery.

For a pic of me, your photographer artiste, see Claire's blog at

http://clarysh.blogspot.com/

The 1GB (plus) Thing

If you're wandering around without a laptop it's useful to have storage space on the web. I'm starting here a collection of useful ways of doing this, and where.

First one, a Free 1GB site: http://www.box.net

Sunday Morning in Bayswater

It sunny but few people are about. Stretched a muscle in my leg so I'm hobbling down to the iCaf.

Google horoscope: Things may unfold now at an increased rate, signaling the onset of great changes. You have waited long enough; this is your time for spiritual and emotional renewal. Remember that endings are as important as beginnings, so be prepared to let go of anything that is holding you back. Don't worry; just make room for what the currents are now carrying your way.

This is becoming ridiculous.

Went to the Natgal yesterday and saw the Monet to Picasso show. Realised just one thing: we don't care about the subjects or the brush strokes. What touches us at the core is the fearless creativity. The utter compulsion for the new.
That orange reflection in the water. Monet is seeing a hundred years into the future from 1873. And starving to make that statement. Ok, he did get rich in the end, but what did he do with the money (besides buying the first Renault)? He built a garden with a lily pond, which he then painted for the French Government (is there such a thing?). It's all in the Orangerie in Paris.

Go here to see "The Impressionist's" pics:

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=monet&btnG=Search+Images

Iets vir Lourens

Haai Lourens laas Sondag was ek (alweer! sug) by die Science Museum en ek het hierdie goeters daar raakgesien.

Hierdie is 'n V8 lugverkoelde vliegtuigenjin, sy naam bietjie vergeet, maar ek dink dis Frans. 'n Renault of so iets, van hier by 1916. Hierdie enjin het daai EERSTE wêreldoorlog vegtertjies aangedryf. Kyk hoe lig is hy gebou. En ek sweer hy het maklik 40 kW gelewer sonder om te rooiwarm te word.

Die tweede foto is van een van daai ou êrries waar die ou onder die vlerk sit. Daar was so een in Daai Magnificent Manne in hulle Vliegmasjiene. Hierdie is net 'n model maar daai is baie ander wat volgrootte is en in die dak hang.

Alles is oorspronklik en van ou leër en stokkies gemaak. Nie copies nie, die ware ding. Selfs hierdie modelle lyk of hulle voor die regte vliegtuie gemaak is.

Die museum is vol sulke snaakse goed. Nie net Spitfaaiers en so aan nie maar ook daai ou goedjies wat hulle vlerke geklap het, 'n regte Pitts Special wat onderstebo hang, en 'n Executive Jet wat iemand seker nie meer wil hê nie. Daar is 'n vliegtuig met 'n stoomenjin, hy lê plat soos 'n volkswagen s'n, maar daai goed kon nooit vlieg nie, power/weight ratio te laag.

Daar's ook 'n hele paar ander rare goed soos 'n volgrootte stoomenjin van 1789 of daar rond, wat permanent ingebou was in jou plaas in as jy een nodig het, om die perde en sulke dinge mee te vervang.

Hoe kry ek al hierdie waardevolle inligting op die blog? Hier's my apparaat in die iCaf tussen al die mense wat besig is om te Skype, te Google, te Hotmail en te Giggel. As hulle emails lees natuurlik.

Monday the Thirteenth Part 1

Went to Jobcentre and spoke to Jonathan, he seemed rather charmed, but of course that's just professional politeness. He took out his little red pen and said I must just remove my age which is so huge that just the idea of anyone still wanting to work at that age and, god forbid, get paid for it, is just too funny. So of course I broke down the place and left.
Then when I went to Tesco for a celibratory lunch, someone left a five pound note in the machine. All us conservationists use the self-service tills so the till operators can die from hunger and this way we save the earth.
Anyway when I picked up the note I realised it was just a decoy and they were watching me and I was going to be shot as I left. So I called the manager who looked at me and laughed. She says she doesn't know what to do there's a law in England 'finder's keepers'. I said no that's just a trick you want to shoot me, here it is. So she had to fill in a big book and call the cops and finally it was all settled.

Got some pics from Claire when she was in Crete, Xania, to visit Veronica.

Music Links

On Bach in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach

Here's the Piano Society's Bach Page http://pianosociety.com/cms/index.php?section=101
(with MP3 downloads)

And here's some lovely streams http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/

which of course you cannot save unless you went here maybe...

http://www.freeware-guide.com/dir/audio/streaming.html

For some online dancing go here http://www.alighthouse.com/skel.htm

I have to say this

I am bursting to say this. I am a conservationist. That is, as much as possible, I do not wish to do anything that will further destroy the environment. This is not a fashionable conviction but one that has been maturing in me over many years.

Have a look at Ulaanbaatar, the lovely capital of Mongolia. Before and after pictures.

http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~corff/im/Picture/Impressions.html

Please, people, think about what we're doing. We are teaching our new young humans that greed and pretense is ok. No, more than that. Not just ok, but desirable. Do you know what I mean? No? Then watch this space.

Here's My CV

Check against this:

http://www.workthing.com/career-advice/cv-writing/CV_mistakes.html

Cover Letter

Working on it...

Is This Really ME?

My Dearest Friends and Others

Today I really need some help. No comment, no matter how humorous, will be overlooked.

So here's my latest CV, and a cover letter.

Will this get me the job I want? Is this really me?

Here is what my Google astro sez for today:

Saturday, November 11, 2006

Your intentions are quickly turning into actions now, so be careful about what you think. Your intensity can backfire on you if you move without caution. On a very practical level, make time to map out your next career move. Create a long-term plan based on what you want, rather than what others expect from you.

Feel free to edit, be creative, and post results back to me a my email.

Thankee

Loutjie’s London

Hi. I’m Loutjie Wiese eMail me on louwrenswiese@hotmail.co.uk
Mobile: +44 (0)779 431 0275

London Property Agents

A map to help you get around:

http://uk.multimap.com/

Properties such as studios: http://www.findaproperty.com/

London Life in General

Nice one for a general start: http://www.london.gov.uk/
Maps, area descriptions, agencies (good!): http://www.ukstudentlife.com/

General Accomodation

For “stylish affordable housing”: http://www.accomodationlondon.net/

London Job Agencies

The local Job Centre online: http://www.jobcentreplus.co.uk/

The graduate site aimed at breaking down barriers: http://www.diversitymilkround.co.uk/

Here’s another that offers mature graduate jobs: www.prospects.ac.uk/links/Mature

Another mature one at the Uni of Kent: www.kent.ac.uk/careers/mature/

Just a few of the biggies:

• http://www.workgateways.co.uk/
• http://www.jobs1.co.uk/
• http://www.reed.co.uk/
• http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/
• http://www.monster.co.uk/
• http://www.forbes.com/
• http://www.taceurope.com/
• http://www.capitaras.co.uk/
• http://www.totaljobs.com/
• http://www.e-cvs.net/
• http://www.jobsite.co.uk/
• http://www.londonjobs.co.uk/
• http://www.cv-library.co.uk/
• http://www.shell.com/
• http://www.londoncareers.net/
• http://www.londonnet.co.uk/
• http://www.redgoldfish.co.uk/

Specialist IT sites:

http://www.cwjobs.co.uk/ http://www.planetrecruit.co.uk/

A good financial site that gives job-hunting tips for graduates:

http://www.joslinrowe.co.uk/

The Gardens of England

This is Lady Di's garden. And that, on the lawn, is frost. See I'm not joking.

And here's some of her trees. Neatly trimmed as trees should be.

Hey if you think these pics are soft focus, hey don't scorn. Just remember, they were taken with a little toy.

Meet the Motorola L6. Bleeding edge, Java programmable, and thin. Jeans pocket size. And free if you buy some air time. Well, almost.

And don't think mine's pink. It's Teal (that's like blue, folks).

No one has to suffer

OK dudes and dudesses here's what I really came to Londo-
minium for.

Food!
That's good Persian lamb being sacrificed to the great god of Protein.


Here's a typical Vegetarian vagabond's supper.

No animal was even mildly upset when this meal was created. And for two pounds anyone can eat here like a queen.

What was that?

Just to show that there's thin chicks in Londominium too. Although they may have to cut their heads off to get into those jeans.
That pointy building is Canary Wharf they say. That's the River Thames, pronounced Tems. It a winter's day so those boats are stuck in the ice.

Somewhere on the other bank of the river is Grennitch. Pronounced Greenwich.

Getting the Feel of Things

Lord Rosse's Thingy.
The first pic is of Lord Rosse's 6 foot telescope, built in his barnyard using only farm labourers. In nineteen voertsek. This is just the eyepiece. The whole thing was high as a tree. The mirror is in the Science museum and you're not allowed to touch it, since you'll get prints on it. The second pic happened when I stumbled and pressed the button by mistake and took a pic of some houses in Kensington. Digital film is too expensive to waste so here it is.