Politics: Showbiz for ugly people. Derived from the Latin ‘Poly’ (meaning many) and ‘Ticks’ (meaning blood sucking parasites) When is the election anyhow? I would vote but I can’t reach one of those voting places and don’t know how they work… Oh yeah, I fired my first .45 , 9mm and .22 sniper rifle yesterday. Sweet! :D Photos. Clicky clicky now (more shall follow soon)

Why bother voting if you don’t live in a marginal constituency? This is the question posed by a BBC News article published today. (here) Exactly the question I have been asking myself in the runup to the election on May 5th. To explain to those who aren’t politically savvy, a marginal constituency is where the area that you vote in, judging on the results from the last election has 2 or more candidates that could possibly win the seat. This [...]

Just called NTL, finally deciding to bite the bullet and venture into the world of non-cable broadband. I’d received an offer from Bulldog to join their 4mb broadband service which has just been rolled out in my area for £19.50 a month for 12 months. Pretty neat, seeing as I’m currently paying £37.50 a month for 3mb with NTL. Speaking to their retentions department, the overly nice lady asked why I wanted to leave? Citing the reasons of incompetancy, high [...]

The Sunday Telegraph published a great article entitled “10 Labour lies” and surprisingly they are able to make their argument stick pretty well. Ken over at the 2005 General Election Blog has a a great, “very true come to think of it” rebuttal to Lie #8. Lie 8: ‘Interest rates halved with Labour’ (Labour poster). The truth: The bank base rate in May 1997 when the Conservatives were last in office was 6.25 per cent. The current figure is 4.75 [...]

The Times are dubbing this “The Basil Fawly election“, as in “Sssh, Don’t mention the war!” I would dare to agree, so far there has been very very minimal talk from any party, especially Labour & the Conservatives about Iraq. Considering this was the most important issue of 2003 and most of 2004, I thought it would have been high on their adgenda. Obviously I was wrong, unless we’ve got it all to come? Which would be a pretty silly [...]