Purpen Blog

So I sat down in front of my PC and fired up wordpress to type this blog. Wasn’t sure what I was going to write about but I did it anyway. In fact I still don’t know, I’m totally blank, but at least I have words spilling out of my fingers, so any block that may be there is temporary, or terminal, which ever you decide first.

Did a little work on the server files today, wasn’t sure if I could make any difference, but so far my changes seem to have made the performance a little more consistant. The server has been running now for a good 18months with a few service restarts etc but like all things OS it starts to slow down after a while as the clutter piles up. Hopefully its sorted now for a few months. I still have a website of stuff I can still try, which I will later today just to see.

There I did have something to write after all, phew!

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So the last few days have seen the gas providers in the UK reducing their prices by from 4% to around 8%. Nice its about time things began to get cheaper rather than going up in price. Don’t be confused though, these companies raised the prices in the first place by about 200% last year, so they are not giving us much back, just enough to persuade us to switch to them rather than staying with our current provider.

Its that time of year see, Winter almost over, we have our bills for the cold period of the year and we are angry, as we should be. Never mind the banks paying out huge bonuses, these companies do it too, in fact most of the companies that raise prices are not doing it because of some market force that makes it less cost effective to sell to us, but because of greed. They need to make a profit, as that profit needs to be given out in bonuses and dividends to their shareholders.

Screw the customers to pay bonuses and dividends to the people they really care about, their investors. The price of oil fell within weeks of its hike, yet they used that as an excuse to screw us of our money.

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So we had the Oscars, I didn’t watch, as to be honest I do not see the point in doing so. It means something to the people getting awarded but isn’t anything for me, I don’t listen to anyone’s opinions on movies as they will say something is bad and I watch it and think, that was great.

I’m the same with music, art, films everything in my life, I make my own mind up, don’t need anyone else to ‘review’ it for me, if I hate it then I hate it and that’s that. If more people did this in their lives maybe the world would not be in the state it is.

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As the title says, it should be starting to look a bit springy outside, but its not really like that yet, we had a little sun and an edge of warmth but it seems like a lot of the spring flowers you see this time of year just decided, sod that, its too bloody cold to come out yet. Not even the usual St. David’s day daffodils are out yet.

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Every year around September time I catch a cold, I then continue to catch colds on and on until it gets warm again. Its been like that for years. So when I saw all the reports about Swine Flu I thought, great, something new to catch.

This year though has been great. I did catch a cold as usual in September, but this time I got rid of it, and it never really came back, had a few sniffles here and there but nothing like usual. So I think swine flu hysteria cured my cold, how great is that.

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