It's December 10th, and I'm in a positive mood.
(So I'm ignoring wars - which is OK, as there aren't that many today anyway.)

The Bad
1993 - The last shift leaves Monkwearmouth Colliery in County Durham.  This pit had run since the middle ages, and this particularly colliery - the last for this coal field - had run for 156 years.  Whether it was lack ( Read more... )

 Welcome to December 8th.

The Bad
1912 - the German Imperial War Council meets and decides not to go to war.  Yet.  This provides an interesting insight into the start of the War to End All Wars, showing that the German navy certainly knew it would be 1914 at the earliest.  It's easy, with the benefit of hindsight, to say that they merely decided to ( Read more... )

When compared with the 6th, December 7th is somewhat quiet.  And positive - yesterday I had many Bad articles, whereas today the positives are in ascendancy...

(Note: these are now in a rough "reverse order" from bad to worst/good to best.)

The Bad
1999 - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) files a lawsuit against Napster for ( Read more... )

Of late, a few people I know have been doing memes that are designed to make them write diary/journal/blog entries more frequently.

So I figured I'd join in, but with my own. Every day, I'm going to pull up the Wikipedia page for that day of the month and pick what I think are the best and worst thing on the list.

December 6thThere's some ( Read more... )