A new website launched in the UK, to help residents make known problems in their area, is making headlines for getting things done. It has taken the traditional one-to-one reporting of problems to the council and replaced it with a community board making the problems harder to ignore. Nice idea, one that I have thought…
Obi-Wan’s cloak from Star Wars (that is the one Alec Guinness wore) has been sold at auction for GBP 54,000. Nice to have but a bit rich for me to bid 🙁 source: BBC NEWS | Entertainment
Yet again our stiff upper lipped minister for justice denies the undeniable. With all the furore in recent days about the accidental deletion of a law last year that opened up a loophole in the system for sexual predators to prey on children, McDowell still stands defiant as if nothing ever happened. What kind of…
It has emerged in a recent report that Irish schools are almost bottom of the rankings in terms of providing physical education (PE) to their students. I can’t say that I’m surprised. When I was a kid, growing up, the teachers used to stop us doing PE as punishment for misbehaving as opposed to punishing…
After noticing yesterday that my blog was attracting a lot of attention from the lunar eclipse searches I just had a look at FeedBurner’s stats for the day. Not often you see an increase of 7300% on a search term hitting your blog. 🙂
With Spring being in the air and all that I decided to give my blog a bit of a dust and a new set of styles. Gone is the slightly dull, green and olive look that I had and in is a new vibrant and clean style. I’ve also changed a couple of the sidebar…
Just noticed an abnormal amount of traffic heading by my blog this morning, that is more than the usual one or two. 🙂 Turns out that the traffic is as a result of my post on the lunar eclipse that is happening tonight. I’m currently in the top 5 results from Google and in the…
As I have tipped the hat in previous years to this day, “Work/Life Balance Day”, I do so again this morning. Albeit a made up holiday by the government that will largely go ignored, it does highlight an important issue that nobody is really paying any attention to. I don’t think that greeting cards are…
It’s official, the government have set in motion ASBOs for young people as of today. I have to admit that when the idea of ASBOs first became a pop-culture talking point, I was was very uncertain about the effect that it would have on the social structure. The whole branded for life thing was a…
Just found out that I have been named as the winner of some Feedburner goodies. I’d like to congratulate my fellow victors, Frank and Bernard T and also to thank Paul who ran the competition and Bernie G who sent me in the right direction. Finally I will have a garment to be proud of.…