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Archive for May, 2009
Skiving
Posted in Admin, tagged skiving on 30 May, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Sour grapes
Posted in Technology, tagged software on 29 May, 2009 | 4 Comments »
My irresistible urge to spit in holy water has riled Blind Steve right up.
Of course that which he says, from the point of view of the usual undervalued and overworked IT fellow, is quite true. And I am obliged to him for this, the like of which I have not seen since the Binary Bible [...]
Unforeseen consequences
Posted in corruption, tagged political class on 29 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Elegant analysis by leg-iron:
…the public no longer differentiate between the parties in Westmonster. They don’t hate ‘Labour’, they hate ‘politicians’. That’s their training kicking in – they were trained to hate ’smokers’ not ’smoking’, to hate ‘drinkers’ not ‘drunks’, and so on. So they don’t hate on party lines. They hate on group lines. The [...]
Best of luck
Posted in media, tagged bbc on 29 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mac the Knife has received what appears to be a well-used form-letter from the BBC, refusing to supply information and claiming exemption from the Freedom of Information Act.
I wish Mac the best of luck with his campaign but it remains my considered opinion that this organisation is well beyond reform and should be abolished forthwith.
“I never dare drive an engine.”
Posted in Technology, tagged DLR, Tube trains on 29 May, 2009 | 11 Comments »
[I.K. Brunel]
There is not, and has not been for some time, any point whatever in employing people to drive trains. Particularly not tube trains.
Bristol Dave is wrong to suppose that drivers continue to be employed to act
…as a mannequin because people won’t get on a tube without a driver.
Should Dave ever go to London he [...]
Psychoprison
Posted in tyranny, tagged psychoprison on 29 May, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Old Holborn on the extrajudicial imprisonment on ‘medical’ grounds of political opponents of the state.
It appears from the cited source that the main concern of the shadowy police unit which decides who should disappear is that
…a significant proportion of people who engage in bizarre communications or contact with prominent people in public life are severely [...]
If it ain’t broke…
Posted in Technology on 29 May, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Once upon a time I learned computer programming.
The computer in question was the size of a modest supermarket, and one communicated with it by sending it neatly-ordered piles of 80-column Hollerith cards. In the post. Eventually one would receive in return an enormous pile of greenbar, which would consist on the first sheet of an [...]
Bathwater
Posted in constitution, tagged FPTP, PR on 28 May, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Bishop Hill does not believe in a constitutional crisis.
My own view, based on such evidence as that produced by Burning Our Money, is rather that a constitutional crisis has existed for quite some time.
BH says, in respect of the danger of the FPTP system apparently responsible for these data being replaced with PR:
It would be [...]
Silly Cloggies
Posted in world affairs, tagged Netherlands on 28 May, 2009 | 16 Comments »
It is reported by Boing Boing that in the Netherlands, where most drugs are legal, there is now such a shortage of criminals that the choice has arisen between closing down some prisons and making their staff redundant, or importing criminals from Belgium to keep the system going.
Silly Cloggies! Don’t they know that the way [...]
One day I’ll cut my legs off; I’ll burn myself alive; I’ll do anything to get out of life, to survive; not ever to be ‘next’…
Posted in Admin on 27 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[Alex Harvey: Next]
Many thanks to all those who left supportive remarks in the comments about doctors, hospitals, etc.
I am back now, having been some miles to and from the local (using the term loosely) general hospital, and having demonstrated to the satisfaction of all that I am capable of sustaining for months on end what [...]
