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I went out leafleting yesterday for the LibDems - didn’t have that many to do, just our road (which numbers 208 houses), but an awkward round; every house needed a magazine, but some houses also needed an individual letter.  Next time, I’ll do the letters and mags separately - I’m sure it would be easier.

Rant #1 is about letterboxes - honestly, ( Read more... )

We don't use the car much, which is why we had to take it out and get a new battery today.

Imagine our joy to find that some arsewipe has scraped the front offside wing down to the metal, and crumplet it. Bloody car was going up for sale next week ...

We had to pull one of our web servers out of the rack at the back end of last week. In theory, it should have arrived back here on Tuesday, and been back in the rack on Thursday ( Read more... )

off to Glasgow in May, as per earlier message. Easyjet' s prices are cheap, but their site is horrible ( Read more... )

from today's Times, just look what the DVLA do with our privacy.

from the Big Picture comes this tale of Sony's latest DRM tactics.

add this to the Sysinternals story about Sony CDs installing a Rootkit on users' PCs without so much as a by your leave.

firstly, I will never buy Sony again, and secondly - yet again - I am so pleased that my Windows days are far behind me.

to all of you:

1. the plastic crate does not belong to us. The plastic crate has *never* belonged to us. We do not know who owns the plastic crate, but it is not us ( Read more... )

"CHILDREN under 16 would be automatically reported to the police if they seek advice on contraception, pregnancy or abortion, under government proposals."

more here (The Times).

from BBC Online comes the news that "Television weather forecasters may soon use simpler terms for their predictions".

is the great British public really unable to understand "chilly in isolated areas"?