Good evening everyone! 
 
It's been a bit soggy and wet round these parts of East Anglia in the UK this weekend!  So, I stayed in and did some work and watched TV!  I shall be posting about a rather interesting "revolutionary new programme" which has just hit the internet over the weekend.  Currently in pre-launch and due to open its doors in October 2004!  In the meantime, you can have a look at see what you make of it!  JUICE promises to provide everyone with Internet Access FREE!  This new technology is apparently four times faster than Broadband / ADSL and forty times faster than Dial ups!  Wow!   All free!   Does this sound a little "too good to be true"??  I shall see what I can find out and make a post again tomorrow!  Watch this space!
 
Meantime... At least The Open Golf had passable weather today and great to see a complete outsider come out of nowhere to win!  Well done Todd Hamilton!  I don't play personally but I do enjoy most sporting occasions.  Since, at this time of the year there is not much else around, The Open was the choice for this weekend!  I did have a quiet giggle to myself wondering what our friends across the water (Americans :) made of Royal Troon's course, the golf club where The Open was held this year!  The beautiful landscape and panoramic views are quite stunning, as you can see in the linked image, if you are there on a good day.  This beauty unfortunately did not quite come across on the TV pictures!  It is a links course and as I understand it, this means a Golf course set on the coast, very close or beside the sea.  By its very nature, a pretty bleak place on a cold, windy, rainy day (though not as bad as Muirfield a couple of years ago).  As I was watching the BBC's coverage of the event, I could not help but wonder about the average American Golf enthusiast sitting there watching the same pictures of very stormy weather as a backdrop over the Firth of Clyde, looking out to the Isle of Arran and Ailsa Craig in the far distance.  Quite beautiful in itself.  But, the course's naturally level landscape, no trees, no lovely backdrop, just grass, rather worn and not very "green", deep rough interspersed with gorse and broom, sand dunes, wind, the occasional BBC camera scaffold or telescopic gantry, seemingly monsters in an Orwellian dream and not much else!  My mind went back to those beautiful pictures of the landscape of The US Masters at Augusta, Georgia in the USA!  This really is the "Garden of Eden"!  Our cousins must have thought to themselves, once more, "we really do live in the promised land"! LOL!