The Secret Blog has moved . . . .

The kind people at ttblogs.com have offered me a safe haven over at http://ttblogs.com/patrickmanning, so from now on I’ll be blogging over there.
Hope nobody finds out about this one or bookmarks the site or subscribes to the feed . . . .

Advice from Portia

Just off the phone with Portia. Called mainly to wish her success in the upcoming election and congratulate her on the unprecedented peacefulness of this year’s campaign season, but also for us to pray together. It’s a long time since we’ve done that.
I asked her if she thought it was okay if I prayed for [...]

A Prime Minister’s to-do list #2

1. Return the iPhone and the case of single malt whisky sent to the house by Larry Achong and Franklin Khan, respectively
2. Decide whether my membership in the Facebook group “Douglarize the Nation” will be a help or hindrance in the upcoming election
3. Call Portia and find out how she arrived at September 3 as [...]

An Open Letter to Hazel

Dear Hazel -
So you got in again. Satisfied, now? I realise this is a losing battle. You are way ahead of me in the computer game, having owned one since the day the government purchased that first batch of PCs for the primary school computerisation programme (I’ll never forget how long it took us to [...]

So much to spend, so little time….

Pats, sweetheart, I don’t know what make you think the blog is “Hazel-proofed”. The only reason I haven’t stopped in here for a few days is that I’ve been so busy getting my hair done, checking out Carnival costumes for next year, and looking at upholstery fabric swatches. A minister’s life is full of responsibilities. [...]

No hope for the youth

Why is it so hard to find a competent IT advisor in this town? You’d think with all the free tertiary education the PNM has given the people the place would be overrun with then.
After a person bearing the rather alarming sobriquet of “manbeater” left two somewhat unpleasant comments on the blog again this morning, [...]

Overpriced dial-up - the only way forward

Just spoke to Lenny Saith and told him to put the brakes on the FastForward programme. Also left a voice mail for Sam Martin suggesting that TSTT hold off on those broadband speed increases they’ve been proposing. Saith said it was a done deal: all he had to do was have his IT people [...]

Secure once more

Another security breach on the blog today, as evidenced by the comments in the right-hand column. Unfortunately I went and replied to them, making the situation worse, but the idea that Bollywood stars are passing off photos of my home as theirs really upset me, and chivalry demanded that I defend poor Jenny Sharma from [...]

About those house photos. . . .

I know I shouldn’t be blogging on the Sabbath, but as the site is Hazel-proofed once more I figure I can take the risk. Besides, even Jesus plucked grain on the Sabbath (Luke 6, v. 1-11), and who is Patos to think he is better than the Son of God? I also woke up this [...]

Fake blogs are dangerous

This is a dangerous trend.
Now people are going to think I’m not really the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. The Internet is bad.