Bitchercise

Been having a fantastic bitching session with Nick.

Prompted by the news that some digital rights content may require an entirely new monitor to view in full detail (http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000143050582/), I launched into a tirade about interfering companies/groups introducing measures that give them small scale benefits at the cost of the masses.

The fact of the matter is this sort of stuff is happening across the board, people's wishes are being entirely disregarded for the benefit of the controlling minority. The biggie recently was the ID card thing, which sparked a similar torrent of vitriol that the lovely Samantha was party to. The concept of paying £300 for the privilige of giving the government an excuse to collate the data it already has, plus pictures of my motherfucking retina, does not exactly power my fucking pylon. Give me a little card with my picture on it and I'll carry it around; sort the data yourself you cocking fuckmunchers.

The justification that ID cards will help fight terrorism is the usual scaremongering that has been going on since September 11th. I think that in terms of his political agenda, 9/11 was the best thing Bushy could have hoped for. Everytime anything happens that most presidents would be blamed for, he uses as ammunition for his fucking industrial funded war machine and over-inflated ego. Same thing applies here with Tony and his fucking stupid ID card plans; use terrorism as an excuse, force whatever the fuck you like through Parliament.

And breathe...

In other news, there is no other news.

Currently impressed by: The weather.
Currently non-plussed by: If you don't know by now, you're reading this entry backwards.
Current urge: Live somewhere other than the UK.

The Magic Formula...

This is my first post in a while and I'll be completely honest about what I've mainly been doing instead. Playing Formula One 2005 online. It really is awesome and the voice comms mean that I now have a regular bunch of people to race against and we have some great battles. One refreshing thing is that this is an F1 game where I can sometimes win, and if not that then I'm usually somewhere in the top 5. I would urge you to go to http://www.playstation.co.uk to find out more.

Today we saw what I will cautiously call the first terrorist attacks on London since the Iraq war. I could probably say lots of things on the subject but I'd imagine they have all been said before. Yes, it is clearly Tony and Bushy's faults and yes it is also ammunition for Bush to advance into wherever else he decides the 'terr-rists' are hiding now. It does amuse me (in a dark sort of way) that Bush talks about the "contrast" between those who have a love for liberty in their hearts (or words to that effect) and those who want to kill - my opinion being that, in the context, someone needs to buy George a new dictionary so he can look up 'contrast' (and perhaps 'wanker' if he has the time).

I'm back home now, searching for a job. I'll be doing some running at Party in the Park in about a weeks time. Sounds relatively straightforward. It's the Living TV coverage, which is being hosted by the improbably camp Big Brother 2 winner Brian Dowling and some chick called Nikki Sanderson. It'll be good to get a bit of moolah to keep me ticking over. It is looking increasingly like I'll need to go to Network and do some more temping; I don't like the work, but it offers a degree of freedom in terms of going on holiday and weekend events like the GP etc.

This weekend I have my old friend Tim's 21st in Manc and then my aunt's 50th in Sheffield, plus it's the British GP, so it's busy, busy, busy.

Currently impressed by: Formula One 2005 for PS2.
Currently non-plussed by: Getting a job.
Current urge: To suddenly come into an awful lot of money.