This morning on the news I saw some more criticism concerning one of the governments so called systems, to deter identity fraud in the passport office. They have decided, against advice from every quarter it seems, that the best way to deal with this is to bring in compulsory interviews for everyone who applies for [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Another daft idea or another stealth tax?
Posted in Politics on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Did Global Warming suck up all the money?
Posted in Politics, The Economy, The Environment on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for a long time you must have noticed how the cost of everything seems to have taken an upward turn. A steep one. We have a financial crisis looming on almost every front with mortgage rates rising and the cost of borrowing going up with them.
So I have [...]
Highlighting the difference.
Posted in Ubuntu on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As Iv mentioned before, I changed from Windows to Ubuntu in January (08), and Iv not looked back since. Iv done the usual newbie stuff and had to reinstall a few times, and I finally migrated my entire Ubuntu installation to a larger hard disk, removing the now redundant Windows XP in the process. Iv [...]
Scaling Down the Operation
Posted in Ubuntu on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Up until January (08) I was a Windows user, and to be honest I was fairly happy. Id experimented with Linux as a first OS before and rejected it for a number of reasons. Today I was thinking about one of those reasons when I realised for the first time that it hadn’t been at [...]
Ubuntu – Continues to be impressive
Posted in Ubuntu on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I changed to Ubuntu from Windows in January of this year (08), and Iv found myself being constantly amazed at how good everything seems to be. However, I have done one thing that really impressed me:
Let me give you the situation. I had a triple boot system. Windows 2000 on C:, Windows XP on G: [...]
Prepare for Global Warming – Buy a Winter coat!
Posted in The Environment on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I always get frustrated when discussing global warming, because a vast majority of people have no idea what its all about, and simply take whatever rubbish the government hand them as fact. Quite why they trust the government in this when they clearly dont trust them in anything else is also interesting, but besides the [...]
The death of Games on PC?
Posted in Games (PC) on April 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In the last few days Iv read a number of articles, both online and in prominent magazines, that suggest there is a downturn in the games industry on the PC.
Various arguments are cited, along with facts and figures about why the console market is bigger and better than the PC games market. Which is why [...]
The Great Recycling Rip-off
Posted in Politics, The Environment on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Its a great idea, recycling. Anyone can see how many people there are, and its easy to imagine how much rubbish we produce. It has to be a good idea to recycle as much of it as we can.
And then of course there is the attitude of the local councils. These are the people who [...]
Global Stupidity
Posted in The Environment, tagged environment on April 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Global warming. We’ve all heard of it and no doubt we are all paying through the nose to help our respective governments ‘prevent’ it. Some of us are even blind enough to actually want to spend money ’saving the planet’. Billions are being made from it. There are some who are rubbing their hands together [...]
The process of Government
Posted in Politics, tagged Politics on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I noticed an interesting if not downright amusing mini-headline on the BBC News front page this morning. I didnt deign to read the article, since for me the headline “Do MPs claim too much in expenses?” simply answers itself.
In recent weeks we have seen an MP (Derek Conway), being dragged across the coals because he [...]
