I'm sorry Lou

In my list of erasmosian movements, I commited an awful mistake. Yes, I'm sad to say that I forgot to mention Lou.
After a few chats with her I did in fact know all the latest news. Unfortunately, with a mind like a seive, I forgot it when it came to writing it down. Now I hope I'm making it up to her :)
She is currently teaching in Madrid, making sure the youth of today gets brought up proper.
Last weekend she went on a bit of an outing, to the Pyrenees with another member of this special group, to whom I've given the nickname of "friends" (the group, not the member). Yes, Albé was also there, obviously showing his male prowess by climbing the highest mountains without any gear, and in fact, without any clothes (that's how man he is). Lou has promised me that I'll get a look at the photos soon, although upon second thoughts, could you leave out the one's of Albé please...

What else has been happening? Well, you've no doubt heard about a couple of whales this week. Firstly, one decided to go for a short holiday to London, and visit the Queen, or Tony Blair (actually, probably not him). After doing the sightseeing tour of the houses of parliament (but not opting to go up in the London Eye) the whale got a bit stressed out by all the commotion (or the parking tickets it kept getting) and died (late addition: apprently it died of dehydration).
Of course, when a whale dies on the shores of the UK, the queen get's to bagsy (first offer) the corpse. In this case, I don't think she wanted any more blubber in Buckingham Palace.

Another whale also made it into the news, but this one was dead before it became famous. Greenpeace decided to take the (naturally) dead whale corpse, and leave it outside the Japanese Embassy in Berlin, demonstrating that whales also die naturally.

On a leaving note, did you know that websites like Google store personal information, which is now being requested by the US government? I thought not. 77% of people didn't know that, but it's true. And it gets worse; the MSN and Yahoo! search engines have been told to hand over user search requests, and they caved in without even trying to resist. Something for you to ponder about.

Surf safe...