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A Modest Poposal….

February 6, 2007 – 19:36

…that Cabinet Ministers, before being appointed, should have to pass a test demonstrating some basic knowledge of how this whole internet thingie actually works. We might then be spared the pathetic sight of a Home Secretary announcing that he has a surefire method of keeping track of the online activities of paedophiles.
It [...]

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TV Crimes & Misdemeanours….

January 22, 2007 – 16:06

Waking The Dead used to be one of my favourite TV crimes shows. Not any more.
The latest series has just got too silly for words. The first story in the new series was some daft tale about nuns, Travellers, hallucingenics and a 2,000 year-old “Druid cult” (sic) that appeared to [...]

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Fed up…

October 25, 2006 – 18:42

Been struggling for the last three hours to get the new design for the Oakleaf Circle site cross-browser compatible.
Which means making it look right in IE6, as well as Firefix and Opera. M$, of course, have their own bowser standards that don’t nessessarily coincide with those of other browsers. Which means that only the [...]

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Compare and Contrast:

October 14, 2006 – 20:33

Terrorists in Court (1) : This week a storythat made the front page in all the national press: a British Muslim pleaded guilty to “plotting mass murder through a series of terrorist outrages in the UK and the US“
In one of the few major successes for anti-terrorist investigators since September 11, Dhiran Barot, 34, [...]

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What Every Child Needs….

September 10, 2006 – 15:42

…a safe home, love, cuddles, good people lookng after them? Affordable food, education, medicine…?
Nope. No siree, not if they are Christian children! Christian children need Armour of God PJsTM to keep all those damm demons away!
(Thanks to Orac)

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Violent Porn

September 2, 2006 – 19:29

Well, that’s caught your eye.
The Goverment has announced plans making the possession of violent pornographic images illegal; this followed a campaign by the mother of a young woman murdered by a man was obsessed with internet images of violence and necrophilia. Besides all the good arguments against the claim that volent imagery leads to [...]

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Politics, my left buttock!!!

July 17, 2006 – 12:00

Watching the news this morning, I found myself heartily wishing that all world leaders had compulsory work experience in nurseries.
Imagine the current Middle East situation re-enacted in a nursery:
Nursery Worker: “Sam! Johnny! Why are you fighting?”
Johnny: “He hit me first!”
Sam: “He was horrid to me! He’s always being horrid to me! And he [...]

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Rant

June 7, 2006 – 17:11

Just got one of those forwarded emails. You know the sort - multiple headers with every sender’s complete address book in each one. And a message body that consists of a few “uplifting” homilies (“Because we cram so much into our lives, we tend to schedule our headaches.. We live on a sparse diet [...]

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