{"id":229,"date":"2005-07-11T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/11\/terror-consulting-partying-and-camping\/"},"modified":"2005-07-11T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-11T19:26:00","slug":"terror-consulting-partying-and-camping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/11\/terror-consulting-partying-and-camping\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Terror&#8221;, Consulting, Partying and Camping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>7\/7<\/b><br \/>\nI was at work on Thursday morning when I first heard of the explosions in London. It escapes me how a group of people can actually think they can justify something like that as &#8220;The will of God&#8221;, which is no doubt how they think they will claim to excuse cold blooded, calculated, indiscriminate murder. <\/p>\n<p>Religious leaders from all faiths have condemned the bombings and they represent no religion I know of, merely the sick delusional thoughts of the few very disturbed people who brainwashed them into doing it. I have a lot of feelings about it but I&#8217;ll just sum it up by saying whatever they thought they were achieving, they failed. I have been so impressed by the way Londoners and the British people as a whole have reacted to it all, I&#8217;d almost go as far to say I&#8217;m proud to be British. That&#8217;s probably all they have achieved.<\/p>\n<p><b>Birmingham<\/b><br \/>\nI went to Birmingham, despite having doubts about arriving in the semi-underground train station of Britain&#8217;s second city during rush hour, the day after the bombings. And indeed on Saturday they evacuated the city centre where I had been the previous day. <\/p>\n<p>But anyway, it was quite a productive day. I got a few hours of consulting discussing my single sign-on system which it turned out had no simple answer but was certainly something worth working on. Then I hopped to the next train station and had a walk around Birmingham University on graduation day. I managed to convince the travel agent to give me a student card then got quite lost wandering around Birmingham aimlessly for three hours.<\/p>\n<p><b>The twins&#8217; 18th<\/b><br \/>\nThe twins next door had their 18th birthday on Saturday night which was a lot of fun, though I spent far too much money on drinks. Nick and <a href=\"http:\/\/djkoa.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">djkoa<\/a> turned up later in the evening and all were merry.<\/p>\n<p><b>Camping<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lauperr.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">lauperr<\/a> and I slept in a tent last night and cooked sausage, bacon, eggs and spaghetti hoops in a mess tin over a very small camping stove. It tasted so good by the time we eventually got around to eating it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7\/7 I was at work on Thursday morning when I first heard of the explosions in London. It escapes me how a group of people can actually think they can justify something like that as &#8220;The will of God&#8221;, which is no doubt how they think they will claim to excuse cold blooded, calculated, indiscriminate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/11\/terror-consulting-partying-and-camping\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Terror&#8221;, Consulting, Partying and Camping<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}