Apology for Gross Misconduct

I must apologies for the title of my previous post.

It was wrong of me and I am not proud of it.

Rest assured, if I try to make any play-on-words titles in the future...the play will actually work.

I will hang my head in shame for the next 10 minutes as way of resolve.

Terror - Terrible or a Terra lot of bull?

So some report says that apparantly we are to fear 2000 people in the UK who are or could be terror suspects in the eyes of M15.

Firstly - and forgive me if this seems either harsh, uneducated or plain stupid - but thats not that many is it? When these sort of stats are wheeled out I am always a bit suprised at how low they sound but how afraid we are meant to be! For example: 103 people are hurt by a hair dryer each year, so lets campaign for safer hair dryers. 103 injuries...is it high enough to warrant a campaign?

I digress, these 2000 terror suspects. Granted 2000 people who may want to do harm is a lot, but 2000 out of 60 million aint that high a number.

What do they base this on too? Is this people who own bomb making equipment? Is it people trained by terror groups? Is it people who have been heard chatting about destruction? Is it people who have visited or posted on an extremest website? What is an extremest?

I find it so hard to take these figures with anything more than a vague glance and then extreme sceptecism. I am sure there are people in this country, just like any other country, who want to do its population harm. Just like I guarantee there are British (either official or unofficial agents) in a country like Iran who want to do its population harm.

I guess my question is...who are all these people who are affraid that Britain is under a constant terror threat? Have we ever not been under this threat and does it affect anyones lives to a huge extent?

Obviously any attack is unpleasant and injuries or deaths resulting from it are deeply wrong, but there seems to be this amazing amount of fear and propoganda whipped up by various sources but I am yet to meet one person who is actually concerned about it.

Perhaps thats just the Brighton bubble striking again.

I am more affraid of my own government that I am of terrorists!

You loved me...then you left me

Well, its been a while.

We have a lot of important issues to discuss you and I.

As you will have gathered, I have been a slacker since finishing Uni, no blogging, no photographing, no writing. Its not so good (like Hedley).

But, times are a changing, times are a changing. First off, the blogging must recommense. Where would the world be without my pearls of wisdom? Slack alley thats where.

I have also made moves to increase the creativity production from 0 to at least 1 or maybe even 2. The process is three fold:

1) I bought a Moleskine notebook. Its a cunning plan where by you spend £8 on a note book so feel guilty if you do not use it. I have therefore penned a few thoughts since getting it and I am enjoying it very much thank you.
2) I have subscribed to a magazine called "The Week". Its tag line is "All you need to know about everything that matters". Essentialy its a weekly magazine that summarises the weeks news, by summarising what the other papers said and so on. Its a bit like the lazy mans newspaper, but thats good as I am both lazy and a man. Anyhow, the idea is it will help me keep abreast (snigger...breast) of whats happening and give me ideas for projects and such like.
3) I have (sort of) started a new photography project. Its super simple and not well thought out at this stage, mainly its an excuse to take a 35mm where every my feet travel to get back in the swing of things. It also involves writing...we shall see where it goes. I am calling it, as a working title "I Fucking Love Cranes". Yet it is not related to building sites! Puzzled...you should be.

In other news, I do fucking love cranes and I love building sites. I enjoy my minute long walk past the building of the new recycling plant in Hollingdean. I like to watch the progress. Sometimes I have to converse with the builders as I negotiate dangerous areas where machinary is in operation. Today I walked past a crane on a lorry. I prefer free standing cranes, but beggers cannot be choosers, unless they are a beggar who is presented with two things at once. The choice between a shiney pound and a cup of tea for example.

I also love diggers.

So...random selections in Itunes etc...how random are they? Not very and I think I have uncovered a consipiracy here. I often find my MP3 player chooses two songs from the same album in succession. In fact it almost always does. Thats not so random. Itunes often seems to select the same songs in a similar order too. What is more, Iphoto does the same. My screensaver is my photo library on random rotation...but its not random. It has favourates and repeats them more often than the other pictures. My conclusion? Computers are alive. ALIVE.

Well, that will do for now. We have discussed some important issues and now i must work.

Until next time.

Finger of fudge

A blog post a week is just enough to give a girl/boy a treat.