G8-fun

what a bizar feeling - to walk to work and pass hundreds of police officers securing the area around the office building. At this moment helicopters are flying over, sirens are making a lot of noise, and protestors are just told that the March on Gleneagles today is cancelled - not much to their joy...

And this morning I almost won two tickets for the Live8 Concert here in Edinburgh tonight - I was in the final round on a radio Show this morning (they were going to pick somebody who texted) and got a phonecall from them to say i was in the final group of people out of which they would select the winner. But... unfortunately i didn't win... :-(

It would have been nice though, because besides all the musical artists (s.a. Travis, Snow Patrol, Annie Lennox, James Brown) also George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Bono, Susan Sarandon and Bob Geldoff off course will be here tonight in Edinburgh...

Today I read something interesting - that the leaders teaming up together don't have the power to "change the world" as some people like to believe. Chirac's and Berlusconi's popularity is below zero, Schroder faces new elections and possible defeat, Putin is widely criticised in Russia, Blair started his last years as a PM, and even if Bush wanted to sign the Kyoto agreement, it would mean nothing because the American Congres voted against... only the Chinese leader (elected with only four votes against him in parliament) is the only one who can change things - but they are wisely staying out of the media attention...