Went out with my daughter this morning to do her paper round with her. On the way back, I was amused at the house name plaque thingy on a bungalow we passed. It read “The Bungalow”. We laughed at how long it took them to come up with that name and the conversation and then we wondered if Mr. & Mrs. Bleedin’-Obvious had kids…
“Yes, we’ll call her ‘The Girl'”. “Congratulations! It’s a boy! What’s his name? Oh, right … ‘the Boy'”.
So the Metropolitan Police have launched a new counter-terrorism campaign. Good stuff. From their website:
“Thousands of people have mobiles. What if someone with several seems suspicious? – Terrorists need communication. They often collect and use many anoymous [sic] pay as go phones, as well as swapping Sim cards and handsets. If your [sic] susipicious [sic] of the number of phones someone has , we need to know. Let experienced officers decide what action to take.”
Like shooting us on the tube, perhaps? Gotta love their dyslexia too.
Maybe I should stop going out with my two ‘live’ mobile phones to avoid being shot for being a suspected terrorist?
My bike is safely tucked up for winter (apart from the odd bit of fettling). So being a dutiful citizen, I declared SORN online when the tax disc expired in the Autumn.
So far, so good.
I have a couple of ride-outs coming up in a few weeks, so it’s time for me to apply for a tax disc to run from 1 April - I’ll do 6 months which will take me through my riding season from Kawasaki Day at the Ace Café London through to the ZRXOC Medbourne Meet in September.
Bearing in mind, you have to allow sufficient time for postage, etc. I thought I’d tax it today to run from 1Â April.
No. You can’t do that. The stupid system will only accept my taxing the bike from 1Â March, so the Government is insisting I pay tax for the last 24 days, plus however long it would take for the tax disc to arrive after they process the application tomorrow. Let’s see … yes, it would probably arrive around the 1Â April and I’d have been unable to use the bike for the first month of the six I’d have paid for, plus I wouldn’t be legal if I wanted to do the September meet.
Absolutely useless!
Of course this is operated by the same people who tried to claim that the latest Budget was all for environmentally friendly vehicles … whilst upping the tax for bikes. Bikes that are perfect for single ‘occupancy’ commutes. And those that do not cause congestion…
Looks like KickApps want to see some return after they’ve been sold a pup.
The Yuku Support Forum [sic] is now displaying ads. like there’s no tomorrow. And they’re not just coming from one source either. Adding into the mix all the tracking services they’re using to Yuku code and the up-and-down-more-than-a-whore’s-drawers Yuku servers, is it any wonder their whole system is slow and timing out regularly?
Let’s have a look at a sample thread on their support forum [sic]. In addition to all the scripts necessary for the software to actually run, it loaded content/tracking from:
Wow!
I suppose that all those keyword-generated ads. are why they are running around hiding/closing/deleting threads that are in any way critical of the dog’s dinner that is Yuku: you wouldn’t want disaster recovery ads. or personal accident/negligence lawyer ads. turning up all over the place, now would you?
So it has been revealed that BAA, owned by Spanish construction company Ferrovial, plans to fingerprint all passengers at Heathrow’s Terminal 5.
Why?
Well apparently:
“Under the security measure, prints will be checked at the gate to try to ensure the person who checked in is the same person who is boarding the aircraft.”
I would have thought the person’s passport would do this just fine, wouldn’t you?
So why are they doing this? Who knows: maybe it’s just a commerical decision to push their miSense product following their earlier trials. Certainly the Home Office is quoted as saying there’s no requirement in terms of security for fingerprinting to take place and the Information Commissioner is apparently looking into it. There’s also the question as to transmission of the biometric data within the EU (and who knows where else).
The trouble for someone who wants to travel by air on international as well as domestic flights is that with BAA in such a dominant position in terms of airport ownership, you may effectively be forced to be added to a database. Once on there, who knows how long the information will be held and by whom.
What’s the next step? RFID tagging for everyone?
From the “do as I say, not as I do” department comes news of one of Norfolk’s finest’s behaviour:
“A police sergeant has been charged with assault, harassment and possessing a knife in a public place.
Mark Murphy, 39, is also charged with failing to provide a breath specimen for analysis and possession of firearm ammunition without a certificate.”
Well that’s all bad enough, but what planet are Norfolk Police on?
A force spokesman said: “We can confirm that a Norfolk officer has been charged with a number of offences and is remanded in custody pending a preliminary court hearing.
“The offences do not relate to his role as a police officer.
“The officer is currently suspended from duty pending the outcome of criminal and disciplinary proceedings.
“It would be inappropriate to comment further while proceedings remain active.”
Excuse me? I thought that policemen were supposed to always be on duty and set an example to us all? Well, unless they’re killing their families whilst on bail for murder, I suppose.
It appears that this October I shall be required to attend a couple of meetings here at Sabah in Malaysia. I’ve yet to find out of we’ll be insisting on business class travel or choosing to travel economy for the benefit of the members…
Now to me, that looks like a little bit of paradise, but I will be mainly sitting in some conference room or attending some semi-formal dinners whilst I’m there. It might be nice to share the trip with my partner, but it may well be a tad expensive for a short break… Still, at least they’d be able to relax in luxury, so we’ll see.
Well! Who could resist yelling that (from Red vs Blue: Real Life vs Internet) in relation to any story concerning Angelina Jolie and that lucky bastard Brad Pitt.
Yes, it turns out that Brad and Angelina have decided to buy a $20M dollar house in Provence after they managed to get consent to build Brad his own personal motorcycle race circuit in the garden.
Bastard!
Now let’s all go home and masturbate!
The problem with having a girlfriend who likes the colour pink is that when you have to borrow her car – and she owns a white Golf with pink pinstriping – you’ll look absolutely fabulous driving it to work, like the bloke I saw this morning. Not one for guys who aren’t secure with their own sexuality…
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