Irregular Shed
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Friday, November 21, 2008 today
Been sent home from work again. My immune system is crap. Got series 3 Scrapheap Challenge for company.
Thursday, November 20, 2008 yesterday
Like most new Arduino owners, I now have a board that flashes an LED once a second =)
Shocked - SHOCKED - that odious turd Richard Littlejohn isn't on the BNP member list. Maybe they're too left-leaning. http://snurl.com/61dg7
At work. Desperately wishing I wasn't; felt not-too-bad when I left home, now feel awful again. Meh.
The big BNP members list free-for-all 12:10 AM
News over here that a list of members of the BNP was leaked on a blog came whilst I'm in the midst of some kind of illness. (For the non-British readers, they're the far-right wing 'political' party born out of the thugs of the National Front - I won't link to them, but I will link to Wikipedia instead.) Now, having had 14 hours of sleep today to try and beat this illness off, I'm wide awake at 00:30, so I decided to check the list out; firstly with the rather excellent BNP Member Proximity Search, and subsequently at a website setup solely to host the list (so that I could get more details).
Regarding the membership of political parties, I can say this: it's one thing to vote for a party, it's quite another to give them your cash in the form of membership. These aren't people who've dallied with the vote in elections, these are people who've said, "YES! I subscribe to your views in your pamphlet! I want to carry a card in my wallet to show how like-minded we are!"
Having ties to both Pontypridd and Gloucester I was interested to see what both locations have to offer in racists. I'm pleased that Pontypridd can only offer two paid-up racists, one in the midst of a (former) council estate, the other in a vaguely better area. There are more BNP members around in neighbouring towns, but they are few.
Gloucester offered up a few more shocks though. I was expecting much more there because, from my own experience, Gloucester is a far more volatile place than Ponty, and it's significantly bigger. I wasn't expecting the spectrum of membership though.
A man living two doors away from my grandfather's house (despite having died a quarter of a century ago, I still think of it as his house, not least because the current owners still have the same front door) is a card-carrying member, as is someone a couple of streets away. These people are a white-supremacist's stone's throw from my mum's house.
Also, the foreman of the Crematorium in Gloucester is listed. I'd prefer it if the care of the plaques for my dead relatives weren't in the hands of someone who believes that merely by being white they're better than someone else. If my surname was Patel, I'd be VERY concerned about it.
Shock of the lot was that the former Parliamentary candidate for the Green Party in Cheltenham (Gloucester's more affluent neighbour) is now a member of the BNP. To go from a nice, pro-planet party that my mum votes for regularly to one so unpleasant is just weird...
Anyway, the list is now out of the box and won't go back in - although the BNP would like to think it can, and will try and play European Human Rights legislation (even though they hate Europe) to get their way, but now the list is on Wikileaks, torrents and a whole load of people's computers, they don't stand a chance. Them's the breaks.
Regarding the membership of political parties, I can say this: it's one thing to vote for a party, it's quite another to give them your cash in the form of membership. These aren't people who've dallied with the vote in elections, these are people who've said, "YES! I subscribe to your views in your pamphlet! I want to carry a card in my wallet to show how like-minded we are!"
Having ties to both Pontypridd and Gloucester I was interested to see what both locations have to offer in racists. I'm pleased that Pontypridd can only offer two paid-up racists, one in the midst of a (former) council estate, the other in a vaguely better area. There are more BNP members around in neighbouring towns, but they are few.
Gloucester offered up a few more shocks though. I was expecting much more there because, from my own experience, Gloucester is a far more volatile place than Ponty, and it's significantly bigger. I wasn't expecting the spectrum of membership though.
A man living two doors away from my grandfather's house (despite having died a quarter of a century ago, I still think of it as his house, not least because the current owners still have the same front door) is a card-carrying member, as is someone a couple of streets away. These people are a white-supremacist's stone's throw from my mum's house.
Also, the foreman of the Crematorium in Gloucester is listed. I'd prefer it if the care of the plaques for my dead relatives weren't in the hands of someone who believes that merely by being white they're better than someone else. If my surname was Patel, I'd be VERY concerned about it.
Shock of the lot was that the former Parliamentary candidate for the Green Party in Cheltenham (Gloucester's more affluent neighbour) is now a member of the BNP. To go from a nice, pro-planet party that my mum votes for regularly to one so unpleasant is just weird...
Anyway, the list is now out of the box and won't go back in - although the BNP would like to think it can, and will try and play European Human Rights legislation (even though they hate Europe) to get their way, but now the list is on Wikileaks, torrents and a whole load of people's computers, they don't stand a chance. Them's the breaks.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2 days ago
14 hours sleep still hasn't shifted this god forsaken lurgee. Battling against it so I can fix the network at work tomorrow.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 3 days ago
been sent home from work. This strange dizzy headache drunk sensation has made me a sub-optimal team player.
I'm so tired that I feel drunk. Falling-over drunk. Pro-Plus will be my friend today.
Narked by Windows XP/Microsoft/the .NET installer. Once again, Microsoft, you try my patience a little more than I can take, so screw you!
Monday, November 17, 2008 4 days ago
Genius on iTunes refuses to come up with any suggestions from "I Feel Love" by Donna Summer. The disco dolly in me is aghast. Piece of poop.
@lopta As long as I don't end up looking like Chancellor of the Exchequer Aliastair Darling, I'll be happy.
@lopta But I don't feel old enough to be going grey! I'm only just mid-30s, dammit! At least I picked the long straw on the baldness gene =)
It's funny - all my grey hairs are growing out of my face. I just noticed that the ones in my stubble look like glitter in the lights here!
The BBC are getting revisionist - this page has been pulled http://is.gd/7QvX from when Baby P's killers' arrests were reported.
Friday, November 14, 2008 7 days ago
Dancing at my desk with my headphone strap over my eyes. The long slit in the strap means I look like an early 80s hip-hopper (in my head).
Thinking Belle and Sebastian were at their best before 2001. "Lazy Line Painter Jane" whoops "Funny Little Frog" in every way imaginable.
@rstevens IT Crowd trailer: http://tinyurl.com/6cbxqs
The answer - yes. XP for Windows Live Writer (the best blog client ever) and for a couple of Spectrum emulators. The rest - Ubuntu 8.10.
Reinstalling OS(es) on my Eee. The question is this - do I have a little XP partition?
@rstevens First episode is November 21st. Next Friday! I'm surprised the trailer's not up online yet but, rest assured, the shirt is yours.
Thursday, November 13, 2008 8 days ago
@rstevens Just saw a trailer for the new series of The IT Crowd. Roy was wearing a Bands I Used To Like t-shirt... result.
SVN users! Don't duplicate a directory and use it elsewhere, use "export" instead. It goes wrong, and then someone like me HAS TO FIX IT.
Days after Media Wales (newspaper publishers) move into posh new offices, they're laying off staff and closing local paper offices. Classy.
Life would be simpler with 100 seconds in a minute, 100 minutes in an hour and 20 hours a day, even if it did ruin standard units in science
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Song - Ladyflash by The Go! Team
- shed: Meh. The link to the song Swurl found is some abysmal remix =(
- leff: you can probably blame last.fm
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- shed: Thanks very much Ryan!
