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A bit of neglect going on here I think - must do better

So where to start catching up. Well, the family I think. Aysha goes from strength to strength, getting cheekier and more beautiful by the day. Ali learned to turn himself over at the weekend,  and is already developing his crawling technique. And his smile gets cuter too. Lynn just carries on being the best wife in the world.

Back in January, I wrote "In March, April, May, we'll have the 'can West Ham stay up?' sweepstakes." Well, I just wrote some stuff that went on for far too long about that, then decided it was too much for this post and deserved its own. See above (later)

Hopefully one thing about the football season ending is that the TV companies get to renegotiate/get different sponsorship deals for their football programming. Here in Malaysia, it's been absolutely galling to watch almost every programme being sponsored by a property scam, Profitable Plots (there's another one operataing here, but not on TV, called UK Land Investments International).

It's an old scam, but one that's hard to operate in the UK, since it's impossible to get approval from the FSA. They buy up farmland, and market individual plots on the basis that they can get planning permission to build (re-zoning, change of purpose, etc). Not only is that unlikely in the extreme, but the chances of not every plot-owner wanting to sell on command, and these are plots with full title deed so you can refuse on a whim, make it impossible to guarantee that the investor will not be held to ransom by another investor. This is why this type of scheme is illegal in the UK. These companies, unsurprisingly, don't mention that.

See www.PropertyScam.org.uk for more details

Finally for the moment, an update on Genarlow Wilson, the straight-A, football-star (american-)football player sentenced to ten years and life as a registered sex offender for receiving oral sex from a fifteen year old girl when he was seventeen. At the time, full penetrative sex was a lesser crime in Georgia, and since that time, oral sex has been given the same status in that State.

Now his conviction has been overturned on appeal, with the judge stating "The fact that Genarlow Wilson has spent two years in prison for what is now classified as a misdemeanor, and without assistance from this Court, will spend eight more years in prison, is a grave miscarriage of justice."

The state prosecutor has appealed this ruling, meaning Genarow is still in prison.