Charles Clarke

So Home Secretary Charles Clarke has revealed that five immigrants that he, or rather his department, released from prison have re-offended. The world and his wife is currently asking for Tony Blair to sack him but Charles has apparently already offered to resign, but his resignation hasn’t been accepted.

In these situations what usually transpires is that Charles will now make a few more cock-ups. Everyone including the Labour Party itself will ask for his head on a plate. Tony Blair will then make a statement saying that he is totally, 100% behind his Home Secretary. This is known in political circles as the ‘kiss of death’. A week later Charles will leave in disgrace. Six months later he’ll be back on the front bench. If you think all this sounds vaguely familiar then just remember his predecessor David Blunkett.

Comments

It’s been a year since I started to use Wordpress for this web-site. I originally started it as an outlet for funny things that I thought of writing and as a way of venting my anger generally. 2004 was a really bad year for things going wrong (don’t get me started!). So the idea of this site was just as an outlet for me and as a way to learn more about web/mail hosting, MySQL, PHP, HTML and CSS. That at least I’ve done. Also as a writing experience. I’ve occasionally been drawn to those ‘Make Squillions of Pounds by Writing Articles for Magazines’ advertisements in, you guessed it, magazines. But have always been stumped for subject matter. So using the ‘write what you know’ credo I started this site.

Recently, as the site has generated more traffic, I’ve started to receive attention from sploggers. Those scum sucking leeches who put fake comments against blog posts. At best they just use the form to put in one URL to a web-site. At worst they put in a vast list of links into the comment itself trying valiantly to up their Google Rank. I had Wordpress set-up so that all comments are moderated by me. You would think that someone spamming a post would check to see if the comment had made it onto the page before trying again. No, they just put the same shit against the same post over and over again before moving onto some other victim. Hell, I even fell for this little trick.

Wow this is a nice site. :0) I like the comments even though I don’t 100% agree with all of them. I am a grad student at the University of Sacred Heart in Connecticut. If you don’t mind I will use your blog as a example for my semester project that I am doing on the internet and ecommerce. If you reject the thought send me a quick email

-Corey

Isn’t that nice, someone wants to use my little old web-site as part of their project. The URL did look suspicious but I just thought that Corey was working for a student debt company to make a few bucks for study materials. Other people fell for the same trick too. Corey has been a busy boy. I only hope that all this web activity isn’t encroaching on his study time!

So, no more comments. If you need to contact me just use telepathy, I’ll get the message.

Kenwood BrewMaster™

After years of indecision I’ve finally purchased a filter coffee machine. Yes, the Kenwood BrewMaster™ now has, after a little re-organisation, pride of place in my kitchen. I just plugged it in, ran water through it twice, as per the instructions, then used 4 heaped measures of Kenco’s finest. I only half filled it’s ample 12 cup capacity tank which gave me 2 and a half of my jumbo cups. That was 2 hours ago. Thankfully my hands have just about stopped shaking, it’s just my legs that won’t stay still.

Naturally it was an internet purchase. Nowadays I can see no reason to go store to store, with the great unwashed and their vile offspring, to compare prices. Here are the shocking facts for you. Argos catalogue price £49.99. Amazon.co.uk price £23.50 with FREE Super Saver Delivery. Total saving £26.49. It’s about time I had some good luck. Of course I’ve just checked Amazon.co.uk again and they’ve put the price up to £39.99.

The main selling point of the BrewMaster™ is the little timer. Each new morn you can spring from your bed and enjoy fresh hot coffee. That is if you remembered to set it up the night before. Then again I’m only really going to use it at weekends. The other good thing is the coffee dispenser. No more washing a coffee jug when you can wash the huge coffee container and the filter holder and the filter. But thankfully I’m still using unbleached filters to save me having to wash coffee grounds down the sink.

All I need now is to hear a news report saying that caffeine is good for you.