Oct 30
By next June, when the next general election is to be held (or before then), I will have not reached my 18th birthday, and as a result will not be able to vote… I’ll be 17 years and 11 months. Great. Thankfully, I’ll not have to worry about who I would vote for next year… but it makes me wonder who I would vote for if coincidentally, my parents timed their night in just a month or two earlier.
Oct 27
Education, Facts, Geography 1 Comment
Well, I am here, doing my A2 Geography homework (which, I have you know is a very interesting subject, and absolutely no connotations of it being boring are to be given off…!!), and in this past exam paper, I stumbled across a question that had me rather amused…
Living near an active volcano can be unsafe. To what extent do you agree with this statement?
The question itself is rather an interesting one, I could write the whole 7 marks it requires just on the pro’s of living near a volcano, but the question itself – as you’ve just read it – made me so just want to put the answer:
Very.
Oct 26
Facebook, Internet, Media, Update, Website No Comments
Dear Facebook,
While I like, and I am very supportive of the new features and design changes you bring to the community, the latest bunch of changes have had me very puzzled, and consequently annoyed.
I have never really liked the “Live Feed” idea, and in my mind it is just messy. Therefore I was happy to have it hidden away in the previous design. Now, however, I get awfully confused when sometimes I click on the “Home” button whilst logged in and it takes to one or the other (and not the last page I had previously been on) of either the much nicer, clearer and customisable News Feed, or the slow, irritating and cluttered Live Feed.
To be honest, and I will admit, this is not massively annoying, one click and it will take me back to my preferred News Feed. But WHY, have you – intentionally or not – COMPLETELY messed up my News Feed!?!? WHY!? Items that should be in the live feed are apparent… Items or types of updates I had previously hidden, are now appearing… and most of all – everything is out of order.
Oct 24
BBC, Media, Politics, The Delicious Irony Series 4 Comments
On Thursday, 8 million people tuned in to watch Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party (BNP), ramble on about some useless twaddle about how Britain needs to remain British. I watched the programme, and thought it was fantastic; the debate was very interesting, and I loved watching Griffin squirm as he couldn’t give an answer to anything respectable.
Oct 21
The Delicious Irony Series No Comments
This post is not so much about irony, but more so about the ignorance of the postal service we have here in the UK.
Turns out they’re striking tomorrow. Great. I shall be crying with unbridled joy when I come back home tomorrow and find nothing at my doorstep. Or the day after. Not only are they doing this, but there has also been regional strikes for the past month or so (just so happens my area is full of these moaning postal workers…), which has done absolutely nothing, apart from causing mass choas.
Oct 18
Internet, Life, Media, Technology No Comments
Today I stumbled across this blog post, by a guy named Gary Hayes, and he has put together this fantastic flash embed widget that shows how more dependent social media is becoming around the world. Check it out:
Oct 07
Famous People, Politics, The Delicious Irony Series No Comments
I understand I’m rather late on posting the news, but this just had to go in my delicious irony series.
Turns out that about 3 weeks ago, the head of the UK’s legal system, Baroness Scotland, was under investigation that she had hired an illegal immigrant to be her housekeeper. Ok, that’s pretty ironic right… she’s the Attorney General for the UK, and she’s been fined £5,000 for breaking the law… not a very good role model, eh?
Well, this is where it gets interesting. Turns out she was fined for breaking the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, which… wait for it… she helped impose herself into the House Of Lords when she was a Home Office Minister.
So you have a job, just so happens your job is to impose new laws, you help impose one particular new law, she suddenly becomes the head of the legal system, she then breaks that law, gets fined for it, and then denies any wrong doing, and then rejects calls to resign.
Bollocks to that.
Read more on this story: BBC News, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Guardian.
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