April 29, 2008 by Daniel
Mum left me a message on my phone tonight saying she thought she’d seen me on the news.
Becuase of the wonders of the internet I was able to track down the story and watch it back for myself. And find that it wasn’t me.
Ironically it was about the collapse of the net as we know it due to scarce bandwidth and the rise of iPlayer etc while I wasted bandwidth finding out that a person in a data centre wasn’t me.
Of course the whole story is rubbish. The ‘Exaflood’ isn’t going to be a problem.
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April 29, 2008 by Daniel
Council elections are up again this Mayday and like last time (last year? year before?) i’m struggling. The amount of information out there is awful I think for council elections.
General Elections, fair enough loads of information last time round – but for this year I searched for the candidates in our area and I couldn’t find websites for them.
I think with Council elections an even more personal touch is needed. I want to know what they’re going to do in my area, not just what their party thinks is best for the country – i’m happy for those issues to be left to a general election. At the moment in Manchester the biggest issue is probably the will they won’t they on the congestion charge. I haven’t quite decided where I stand but I think it’s actually not a bad idea, just not quite right in it’s current form.
The only thing relevant I’ve found so far is this news report from radio 1′s newsbeat of all places. I’m not normally a fan of newsbeats journalism.
The only flyer i’ve recieved from a candidate was from the BNP. What message does that send?
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