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07 Apr

Stuff Jim McGovern

Last night was the final straw. Having spent several years as a member of the payroll vote he eventually started being a constituency MP. He voted for authoritarian measures like storing massive amount of information on citizens and then tried to block information about where he has been on taxpayers money using privacy as his […]

14 Feb

Attack of the virgins from mums basement

Friday was a special occassion. The 200th episode of the excellent Boagworld podcast. To celebrate, rather than record the usual show of about 1hour the hosts organised a 12 hour spectacular pulling together some of the brightest and most interesting people in the web industry. There were experts on coding and design, CSS and CMS, […]

08 Feb

Games For Windows Live Sucks

For the second time in a week I can’t log in to Games For Windows Live. I can log into the Live mail account associated with it and am online doing other things. What am I trying to do? Play Dawn of War 2 Campaign. That, is a single player game which requires two online […]

02 Feb

Deluded fantasist rambles on again

It seems the supreme magic user in Europe has opened his mouth and channelled the spirit of a bigot from an earlier time. Given the organisation he is in it could be anywhere from the 1st century to last week. Daily mash as usual are pretty on the ball with the satire. He apparently will […]

21 Jan

First Search Consultancy send in the lawyers

An SEO company previously discussed here with a dubious reputation has sent in the lawyers against someone who posted about them. Apparently them phoning up people claiming to be from Google and people reporting this is grounds to send in legal threats. In the actual thread a number of people posted their experience with the […]

07 Jan

Chaos as frozen water plummets from the sky!!

Sitting in the pub last night one of the 24 hour News programs was on giving us breaking news such as roads frozen and temperature below freezing. How this was breaking news baffled me. Then after the news finished there was the weather. The newspaper headline section was hilarious with their shocking headlines and attacks […]

25 Nov

Complete Banker: no free lunch!

According to Stephen Hester when discussing bank charges: Banks had to meet the costs of doing business. From a bank who had billions chucked at it after failing at business and then billions more in secret so that it’s share price wouldn’t plummet more. They then started discussing how many staff to make redundant. The […]

31 Oct

Letter to Jim McGovern

The contents of the letter I just to my MP It is an outrage that your government have sacked Professor David Nutt. Surely the purpose of advisers is to give an experts opinion not to rubber stamp policy decisions by government taken not because of scientific evidence but in line with the opinions of the […]

13 Oct

London Food

I couldn’t really figure up a good way to post about random stuff from the trip to London so will start off with the food. Friday On the Friday we arrived in the afternoon so we only really ate out for tea. With the hotel we were given a voucher for various Hotel owned outlets. […]

07 Oct

Random website sham again?

A friend got another call from a web design company today. This time they are claiming that that a government scheme is there to help companies with websites. For £149 per year they can make a site with a shop. A quick scan of their site shows that that package is £199 per year. The […]

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