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Two more stories caught my eye this last week, both relating to video games. It seems that the gaming industry has really upset someone in the political systems of Europe, not sure what they did, or why they are upset but anything that happens these days seems to be blamed on them. Video games cause obesity? The first story I read on the BBC website, it was the first I had heard about it, I hadn't seen it on the mainstream news, guess they didn't consider it important enough. Let me fill you in on the details though. The UK government has ...
Here a a collection of spam subject lines I have received in the last 24 hours or so. I get a lot of spam in my Google account due to me combining a bunch of email addresses into one place, public domains attract a lot of spam. Google always catches them, but I like sometimes to read the subject lines out as they can be very funny. I have added a few comments for each one below, and I hope you enjoy the way I do this. I will do more if you do. Please comment and digg if this ...
graveyard-shift 034, originally uploaded by Noobenforcer. Took this the other night while wondering around the Machynlleth graveyard. Love the sky and the fact that you can see all the carving. The flash did a good job. Wish I had a little more control over my point and click but this is how it will be until I'm rich enough to get a decent camera.
penegoes walk 063, originally uploaded by Noobenforcer. As the title says, the family and I went out for a long walk around the countryside once again, snapping pics of this and that, anything that caught our eye. I had been reading the manual for my camera and did a bit of experimentation with the ISO and EV settings available on my camera. Some worked some didn't. Still not sure what I'm doing with these things, but I will learn. You can see the full set on my flikr page
I recently after many years of living in Machynlleth picked up a copy of the Machynlleth Town Trail book by David Wyn Davies. Its a small little book with a lot of interesting information about the town that I live in. After reading it I wondered how many of the things in the book still existed. So it was my wifes day off and I suggested we go out with our camera's and follow the book. [caption id="attachment_627" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Castlereagh Memorial Clock"][/caption] The route starts at the clock tower. The book says it was built by the people of Machynlleth ...
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Yes you read right, Twitter has killed my blog, well actually maybe I should say that twitter has killed my blogging. Since I got a twitter account I blog less and less, any ideas I would have had for a post usually get condensed into 140 character posts on Twitter.
So I have decided to make more of an effort to blog here, and use Twitter for more inane comments, lol. If you follow me on there you probably think thats what I’ve been doing anyway. Unless I can find a way to import each twitter post here too, as an actual post. Will look around for a plugin.
I will be posting the rest of the Town Trail post soon, not sure yet if I will split it up even more to spread it out a bit, or do it in a few larger parts, will decide after a little think about it.
We saw this year the election in the United States of their first Black President, for most Americans it was a proud moment, showing the world that they had put the segragation of the 60’s behind them, or at least out in the open anyway.
This made me wonder if this could ever happen here. The recent European Elections showed me and many that we have a long way to go. If we are ever to have full equallity here in Britain we need more Black people in positions of power, we have very few. Yet we are talking about a substantial amount of the population here.
Just as it is rare to see Asian footballers its even rarer to see Black councillors, Black priests, Black policemen, Black judges, Black MP’s, its amazing that here we are in 2009 I cannot foresee a Black Prime Minister any time in our future.
Lets hope one day we will be able to be as proud as our United States allies have been of their new president. I live in some hope, but not in the next 10 years or more.
Tags: Black, judges, MP's, policemen, priests, Prime Minister, United States
I’m one of those wierd people who doesn’t much care for Sunny weather. I hear from so many people that a sunny day is something to be pleased about, but I cannot see why that is. When the sun is out, your hot, bothered, you usually feel tired, and you get burned. Whats so good about that?
I prefer the dull cloudy days or even rain, over the sunny days. I like to go for walks, can’t do that in the sun unless you take gallons of water to stop you from dying of heat exhaustion. It just doesn’t suit me, and I know I cannot be the only one that thinks the same way. Bring on the rain, long live the rain.
Post your hate in the comments, I’d be interested to hear your reasons for liking the great firey ball in the sky.
Like a lot of my friends I received a letter recently saying that we had not given access to the new heating service engineers to our property. Even though, we did not leave the house on the day they were meant to have shown up, and even though like a few others we had received no note through the door stating they had called and we had missed them.
This would be ok, if it was not for the fact that this week in the Powys Councils literature I had not noticed an article, it has a red banner with STOP PRESS written on it, it tells of how the council took out a court injunction against a resident who had refused entry to their property for a gas engineer to service their boiler. They were fined £150. Yes they were fined, and now its Council policy to fine anyone who does the same.
Not sure about you, but as this company has already lied to the council that they had called when they hadn’t does it not concern us all to make sure the council knows that they lied. If you had one of these letters, leave a comment here, and I will make sure the local councillor knows about this.
The engineer is due to call tomorrow for us, if they are calling at yours, also be sure to leave in the comments if they turned up or now. Don’t know about you but I am not going to get into trouble because the Council gave the gas contract to a bunch of liars.