Headgear: A Muslim woman was not allowed into the Public Gallery of a Napier Court due to her wearing a headscarf. The Judge later said he had made a mistake and should have allowed her to attend. A scarf is OK in my view however, I wonder what the result would be if a Scotsman wanted to wear a kilt in a Saudi Court. Well, we do know what the result would be!! Of course the politically correct Labour MP Chris Carter was upset.
Music: Looking at my music blog I see the most visited song is now Carl Mann with Judy. That is a surprise.
Another surprise is that the 92 year old Vera Lynn is in the UK album charts challenging the Arctic Monkeys (who!!) for the No.1 position. She is the oldest living person ever to get into the Top 20. Her CD containing all her wartime hits was released to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the start of WWII on 1 September 1939.
Almost music as it is Copyright. Just heard on the news that Google wants to digitize books and put them on the Net. Either the authors have to come to an arrangement with them or in the case of most NZ (and world) authors their books will be put on the Net without their approval. Why?
It seems that the Americans say that any book that is not commercially available in the United States is deemed to be out of print and by inference out of copyright. But it seems this does not apply to US authors. So if say a Jamacian author writes a book that is only sold in the West Indies the Americans (Google - unofficial motto - Don't be evil) can just put the book on the Net.
And they wonder why the rest of the world get upset.
