Just like hearing the first cuckoo of the year, or spotting the first buds on the trees in spring, or the first sighting of Easter eggs in the shops, there is another seasonal omen to look for. Tonight I saw the first car with a St. George flag on the roof. Is he celebrating the […]
Entries from March 23rd, 2006
We’ll get them in singles
March 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off on We’ll get them in singles · Politics
We signed up another new member for Broadfield Labour party tonight. It would be nice to just get a few dozen applications come in at once in reply to one of our newsletters, but if we have to grow our membership the hard way, thats what we’ll do. I did try to recruit the local […]
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Missing the bus (route)
March 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off on Missing the bus (route) · Life, Politics
Someone is being bit useless. I do not know whether it is our county council or Southern railway, or a bit of both, but there are some new local information maps at Crawley station. These maps have the logos of Southern and West Sussex county council on them so I figure they are jointly responsible. […]
Budget
March 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off on Budget · Politics
Just once I would like to see a chancellor grab the headlines by standing up and saying: Last year’s budget was so good, my forecast was so accurate and our performance so in line with targets that there is no need to change anything. And then sitting down again. I know there are good reasons […]
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voblaizdupla
March 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off on voblaizdupla · Technology
I don’t know what voblaizdupla is. Google doesn’t know what voblaizdupla is, nor do Ask or Lycos. The McAfee and Sophos websites have never heard of it, but my firewall found something called voblaizdupla.exe trying to access the trusted zone. I figure that any program which is doing a valid job will show up on […]
Song titles
March 21st, 2006 · Comments Off on Song titles · Music
A few people have been doing this, so I thought I would have a go. I had four bites of the cherry as I could not decide between Megadeth, REM and Pet Shop Boys but feel almost honour-bound to do Gang of Four. It sort of makes up for being last on the bandwagon. The […]
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More anti-nazi activity
March 21st, 2006 · Comments Off on More anti-nazi activity · Politics
Not in Crawley, but in the place I grew up – Basildon. The UAF are out leafletting on Saturday and Sunday this weekend.
WordPress.com
March 21st, 2006 · Comments Off on WordPress.com · Technology
Now that I have finally finished moving all my old archives from Blogger to WordPress by hand, I find that there was an easier way. Sort of. Yesterday I found that to activate the Akismet spam-blocker you need something called a WordPress API key, which you get by opening a free account a WordPress.com. I […]
Caption competition
March 20th, 2006 · 7 Comments · Politics
I like to take a camera when I am out canvassing, and took this photo last week. I think it is just crying out for a decent caption. Any suggestions?
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NHS funding problem solved?
March 20th, 2006 · Comments Off on NHS funding problem solved? · Politics
Just compare these two stories. The first talks about the NHS deficit of £799 million. The second talks about the failure to increase fuel duties in line with inflation for two years running, and probably again this year. Each time this happens the loss of revenue is approximately £600 million per year. I am assuming […]
