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letter to the post
This is a response to G Bello’s star letter on Wednesday. I agree that our leaders, or anyone else for that matter, can follow whatever faith they like, assuming that it does not interfere with their professional duties. Which, in Blair’s, case I think he archived. This would feature as one of the only things that I would commend him for during his decade in office. G Bello raised the point that Blair should have felt comfortable speaking of his faith without being labelled a nutter because politicians in the US do this. In what way does George W Bush *not* appear to be a nutter to you? Do you think that our leaders should be taking actions that “God told them to do” or do you think that they should be acting in the best interests of the country. If you do think that carrying out gods work from the highest office in the land is OK, whose god are we going to follow? It defiantly won’t mine because I am an atheist. Religion has no place in government what so ever. Labels: letters to the editor, soap box
Ready To Fry Snack Pellets
I wont bore you with what I was looking for when I stumbled across this page.
You know food is going to be bad when it tells you it is food in the title such as "cheese food slice" or "ham food slice" such as you find with the tescos value lable on it. These badboys go one step worse. They dont even sugeste for a seccond that they are a propper food.
lets have a read of the description of the Ready To Fry Snack Pellet:
Detailed Product Description
Extruded Ready to Fry Snack Pellets with Cereal Flours, Potato Solids and Flavour (Onion & Garlic).
Product is available in various shapes. Product to be deep fried in oil, dusted with flaours of choice and packed in unit packs of 15, 20 or 50 g as per choice with nitrogen filling for extended shelf life.
Material is packed in Plastic Bags of 15 kg each and despatched in container loads of 1
Its a real lip-smacker enit.Labels: real world
How sick are you of my sexism rants?
Not too sick to read this one I hope.
I read a story in the Metro last week titled “women do worse from divorce”. I have had a poke around and found the story on the web. You can read it here.
I think the title of the story “women do worse from devoice” is spin. The meat of this issue is that women have fewer savings and their pension provisions are not as good, the upshot of which is that men, on average, recover financially from devoice quicker then women. In cases where children are involved or where there is a reasonable case for loss of earnings, one of the parties must may money to the other in maintenance or alimony (I don’t know if we use that word in the UK) so this story cant be a reflection on institutional sexism, its just a statement of fact. It could just as easily be read “women do not save as much as men”
I appreciate that there is nothing in this story that explicitly attempts to apportion blame for this “problem”, I just think it’s a peculiar way of reporting facts. It’s a bit like announcing the gender gap that is always reported when the GCSE and A level results come in as “Boys are losing out in secondary education”.Labels: sexism?, soap box
Another Star Letter in the post
The letter I sent in yesterday has been made todays star letter.
Just goes to show that arse kissing does get you ahead.Labels: letters to the editor
letter to the post
I would like to congratulate the members of staff at the Reading Evening Post who come up with the pun headlines. I didn’t think you would ever better the headline from the time of the recent floods in Caversham which had a picture of people preparing there front gardens for the flood with the line “Sandbags at Dawn” or the infamous “Newtelated” front page-er. But this was blown away by yesterday’s report of Councillor Tony Page’s civil partnership ceremony headed by the line “Marriage Councillor”. Fantastic.Labels: letters to the editor
Prospect
I was just having a look at the Facebook group for Prospect School. What a load of chavs, pikes and slappers.
Best years of your life? I think not.Labels: soap box
the brownhaze is laughing at eComStation
I am all up for new operating systems. You may have noticed that I quite like Ubuntu. Each new iteration of these new operatins systems presents new opportunities and ideas. However, I don’t credit eComStation with any of these benefits. Here is why.
In the dim and distant past, a little while before Microsoft came out with Windows 95, IBM released and operating system called OS2. I am not going to go in to weather or not this was a good o/s, we just have to know its old.
eComStation is a new distribution of OS2, which is fine. There has been a small community using OS2 since is conception (and subsequent shunning by most of the world). The part that makes me laugh, is that they want £185 for it. Its like selling a tarted version Windows NT 3.5.1.
I have been attempting to understand what the benefits eComStation presents that is worth £185 (baring in mind Windows Vista is £95 and Apple’s OS X is about £80). I had a look at the “Why eComStation” page. Apparently it has a nice GUI, you can drag and drop stuff, you can tailor the GUI to your own needs, its multitasking and multi threaded and is, by design, malware and virus resistant. OK, not bad, and if you had gone through this list in 1995 it would have looked very impressive, but it is now some 12 years later, offering these “benefits” for the best part of £200 is ridiculous.
I particularly like this exert form the page “With eComStation and its Workplace Shell you have, without doubt, the most versatile and user friendly graphical desktop at your fingertips.”. Lets compare. This is the eComStation £185 desktop, while this and this is my free Ubuntu desktop.
If anyone can explain to me why this would be useful in all but the most niche of cases, I would love to hear about it.
Also...
…. and I thought Ubuntu was a stupid name.Labels: geek, soap box
Letter printed in the post
The letter that I sent to the post on the 29th of this month has finally been printed today. I think it took so long because its a very long letter, it took up most of the first letters page.Labels: letters to the editor
why I *heart* Ubuntu
Yesterday I was attempting to find a solution to a problem with one of my Ubuntu box’s and found myself in a general Linux forum. A user had posted a script which may have been of use. Another user replied saying that it looked like what he was after, but it would need some changes that he didn’t know how to make. The first user replied to this with a comment along the lines of “what, you don’t know how to code, what are you doing using Linux”.
This reminded me of one of the main things that sets Ubuntu aside from the other Linux distro’s . The community. In my experience the Ubuntu community is inclusive and helpful to a fault (the polar opposite of my experience of general Linux fan-boys). If it where not for this, I don’t think I would have embraced Ubuntu in the way that I have and subsequently would have missed out on all the learning that I have achieved over the last year and a half which has benefited my professional and home life.Labels: geek, real world, soap box
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