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Friday 28 September 2007

Jack Straw has some odd ideas about law and order...


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On the news yesterday there was a bizarre story from the labour party conference:
"Self Defence" Laws to be reviewed

Ostensibly Jack Straw is encouraging people to take the law into their own hands - after recent stabbings and shootings though this seems like a ludicrous idea. One wonders if he only came up with it to show off about his own Have A Go Hero exploits. Anyway vigilantism with government approval as a concept surely puts Jack Straw somewhere right of Thatcher. Although he still looks like a leftie compared to Blunkett.

I fear common sense has taken a permanent holiday in a world of terrorist paranoia and wrapping children in cotton wool. Indeed this week I was intrigued and horrified (for lots of reasons) by Radio 4's show Bullying.com which both told me of untold nastiness of children but also the bizarre level of protection, aged naivety and weird attitude of some parents. However it was the total unthinking trust, peer pressure and dependence of what should have been fairly mature teenagers which was really shocking -both the victims and the bullies. One wonders if the age of maturity in the UK isn't now edging towards 50 rather than 18. Odd.

Anyway. The whole weird thing is at least an excuse to show this bizarre newspaper hoarding from the Glasgow Airport bomb scare. At the time I thought it was insanely unhelpful, an opinion that only grows stronger with time.

Wednesday 26 September 2007

Interesting little view of Facebook

As a full on FB addict I was interested to read today's blog entry from the always interesting Susan Mernit's Blog

Tuesday 18 September 2007

Ruff Bus 3


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I spent some of my bank holiday yesterday (a weird edinburgh/uni holiday, no idea why) uploading some very old pics to flickr. This is an ongoing effort to try and get myself organised, the pics archived and tagged and also shared with folks.

So I started yesterday by adding pictures taken with both my various mobile phone (the quality evolves noticabley) and the pocket digital camera that lasted about 2 weeks until a bright day of sunshine busted in sensors into oblitoration. And I found some weird gems in the collection because I take mobile pics as the mood takes me and really quickly so it's often for stuff that I wouldn't otherwise snap...

Such as Ruff Bus 3... !

Wednesday 5 September 2007

Bank of Scotland Festival Fireworks 2007


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Oh my goodness! Tickets to the park means I got to take possibly the coolest shot I'll get this year!! (If I'd actually remembered the mount for my tripod who knows what other gems I might have taken?!)

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