Dear youth-of-today,
Us 18-30 year olds are only about 30% likely to vote in this election. Why? Because, on the whole, we don’t give a shit. All the parties are the same. No-one listens to us. Politics is rubbish.
Well, how about, we actually go out and vote? If we 18-30s actually turned out to vote this [...]
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Posts in April, 2005
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Dear youth-of-today
Popeitine
I mean, it’s surely not just a coincidence is it? As Paul Merton said on this weeks Have I Got News For You, “He’s got the eyes of a killer”.
Loband
Yesterday I plopped down £515 for my flight to Kuala Lumpur! Not too bad a deal I think. Decent flight times, and I have the option of staying over in Columbo, Sri Lanka on the return leg for as long as I want.
Slashdot recently ran a little piece about Loband, the low bandwidth proxy for [...]
Boris strikes again
The BBC’s coverage of the election, on the website at least, has been really rather good. Quite a relaxed style, not taking itself too seriously, but with enough ‘proper’ content.
My favourite page is the Election Weblog, charting the mishaps, bloopers and amusing stories from the hacks’ trail.
Today had a great couple of quotes from the [...]
Jungle decisions
So, you’re installing laptops in a village in the middle of nowhere. You have solar power, and satellite internet access (VSAT). What do you go for, OS wise?
In the red corner, we have Linux. Has the advantages of being free (both beer and speech), customisable, low requirements. But it can have a steep learning curve [...]
Day -71
T minus 71 days before I arrive in Bario (22nd June). This is a little earlier than expected, but shouldn’t cause me too many problems in terms of planning. It’s just a little annoying that I can’t go to Glastonbury now, and that I’ll be finishing work earlier than expected.
It looks like I’ll be spending [...]
A Shower of Gigs
April is looking like a good month for gigs. I have:
April 13th - Bloc Party
April 14th - Idlewild
April 21st - I Am Kloot
April 27th - The Longcut
Woo yeah!
The Mission
I was all prepared. I had my day planned. Up at 8:30, have some breakfast, and then the mission begins. No backing down, no relent. This time, they would be mine. Oh yes, this time they would be mine. Too many times have I watched them slip past me. Too many times have the engaged [...]