Fixing everything, really slowly

This explains why the Morrisons supermarket I stopped at in Bridgwater on Sunday had so many Bioethanol pumps:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4498934.stm

and

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4603272.stm

Its an interesting option to reduce carbon emissions, although I think there a better options for cars and other land based transportation (Electricty or Hydrogen fuel cells). Where this has to make a difference is comercial airlines. Virgin’s recent announcement I posted about last week seems to be aiming to do this so I’m glad that work always flies Virgin to the US.

In a few years I would hope that I only need to offset 15% of the carbon emissions of a flight becuase the other 85% came from Bioethanol :-

The heading says it all. I now have a new pair of glasses for “VDU work” as the optician told me. I bought them from Vision Express near Monument tube in London.

For someone who has never had their eyes tested or worn glasses before I found the service to be a little lacking. I wasn’t really put at ease, and I found the atmosphere (including the bad dance music playing in the store) more like that of a gym than somewhere that trained specialists measure the defects with my vision. Individual staff members were polite but didn’t actually give the impression that they had sold a pair of glasses before (perhaps the fact that I work in the city but don’t wear a suit unsettled them )

Having spent over £200 pounds on them I’m reasonably happy with the results. I’m wearing them now, as I type and am finding things fairly normal. I’m keen to see how I feel about them by the end of the day, that was when the symptoms that drove me to the opticians used to occur the most.

Tip: If you find yourself making the fonts bigger in your web browser in order to read articles on a regular basis go get an eye test! I took me a few years to make the connection!)

Update: I guess I should have mentioned what is wrong with my eyes! I have an Astigmatism

Reuters: California sues carmakers over global warming
Ok, so this came from Slashdot but I thought it was a good headline. Of course it turns out the this is just political game playing but still its progress, just really slowly

Update: Ok, so this even better news:

BBC: Branson makes $3bn climate pledge

Will people actually start to take this seriously?