Merry Xmas to all on aus.electronics

Oh, and of course I mean that in the best secular traditions of the FSM. So merry fmas, happy holidays et.al...

Dave.

Agnostica:

Struth, 04:30 Christmas morning here. I better go check that sock hanging up. I don't think you could fit a Ferrari in it. Maybe next year.

Just heard on the news that St Petersburg just had it's biggest snow fall in over 100 years.

And in Moscow: Some 15,000 vehicles were deployed yesterday night to move snow and spray snow-melting chemicals on roads around the city, Orlova said.

The vehicles collected 120,000 cubic meters of snow overnight, and many continued working nonstop throughout the day yesterday, she said.

Anyone need a large chunk of snow?

Merry Christmas,

Cheers Don...

God bless us, every one.

We will have a white Xmas, only the second time in the last ten years in Hamburg. Any more of this global warming and we'll all freeze to death. And winter is officially only 3 days old.............

The Greenies protesting in Copenhagen must be having second thoughts....

:>> 2010 just around the corner, wow. See you all on the forum again next :>> decade! :>>

:>> Regards :>> Dave. :>

:> Struth, 04:30 Christmas morning here. I better go check that sock hanging :> up. I don't think you could fit a Ferrari in it. Maybe next year. :>

:> Just heard on the news that St Petersburg just had it's biggest snow fall :> in over 100 years. :>

:>

:> And in Moscow: :> Some 15,000 vehicles were deployed yesterday night to move snow and spray :> snow-melting chemicals on roads around the city, Orlova said. :>

:> The vehicles collected 120,000 cubic meters of snow overnight, and many :> continued working nonstop throughout the day yesterday, she said. :>

:> Anyone need a large chunk of snow? :>

:> Merry Christmas, :>

:> Cheers Don... : :We will have a white Xmas, only the second time in the last ten years in :Hamburg. :Any more of this global warming and we'll all freeze to death. :And winter is officially only 3 days old............. : :The Greenies protesting in Copenhagen must be having second thoughts....

It is predictable that the sudden cold snap inthe northern hemisphere will be right up the alley of the AGW proponents (ie. climate change deniers).

Down Under in Perth we have a warm 35C for Christmas day and 40C forecast for both Monday and Tuesday. Certainly no sign of global cooling here.

Cooler than usual in QLD. 1993 / 2005 was the worst Christmas heat I can recall.

It is getting warmer, just not everywhere. So they should rename it 'Local Warming', eh ?

I was in Hamburg for a few weeks just before xmas a few years back. I was in shorts and a T-Shirt almost the whole time, nice'n'balmy. I like the Hamburg xmas markets at night, very nice indeed.

Dave.

Podcast:

Lets not forget to spread the christmas cheer to New Zealand as well :)

Drunken tourists are well-known for their strange behaviour when they get to Hamburg ;) Perhaps the Gluhwein (with a shot) makes them feel far warmer than they should.....

Yes, the atmosphere of the German Xmas Markets is world famous.

And we don't seem to have to much to worry about.......

The global warming models will need to be revised down, AGAIN, but they always have needed to be fudged to fit the data as it comes in, the models have actually been next to useless in predicting anything. Very accurate when you do retrograde data insertion and recalculate with fudge-factors in place, but as useless as telling someone they SHOULD HAVE bought Microsoft shares in the '80's now.

Heppy Crustmus to New Zulland