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Election 2010 – Anyone for Pie?

On the left – The number of votes cast for each of the major parties in the 2010 UK general Election. On the right the number of seats awarded to members of each of the main political parties.

Anthropomorphising Anyone?

Question: How can an animal have its privacy invaded when privacy is a legal construct for humans alone?Answer: When the Daily Mail gets hold of the story.

Pull your trousers up….apparently not.

There’s a thin line between annoyance and personal freedom. Whatever you may think about the utterly ridiculous ‘yout’ trend of havin’ your arse hanging out in public I don’t think pushing it through the already overloaded legal system is one of them. Frankly if you want to look like someone incapable of purchasing the correct size clothes then that is up to you.

I’d Like a QuickTime Please…

AKA: The Stupidest Request to Make in Post Production and How to Avoid It.

Temper Tantrum

Marvellous, I can now log my periodic temper tantrums. Windows Server 2008 has a reliability utility, so no doubt I’ll be able to use this to graph the reliability of the IT manager (me) over time and my relative stress levels too.

(Un) Acceptable Broadband Speeds?

  I’m having broadband speed issues here at work and have been going through the usual rigmarole of testing with BT and my ISP. I happened to notice this acceptable rates listed for the various advertised line speeds by BT: BT minimum acceptable speeds for broadband service: 100kps or more – acceptable on 512kbps products 200kbs or more – acceptable on 1Mb products 400kbs or more – acceptable on 2Mb, 4Mb & 8Mb products Let’s just study that for a […]

The Art of Perfection by BT

I am trying to trace a phone line here at work and stumbled upon this diagram, whilst checking out the wiring. The bit on the right was the part that caught my eye, particularly “The quality of wiring carried out by many older BT wiremen is often approaching art in its perfection” Here’s our krone for the phones – all installed by BT I should point out: High art as you can see. Perhaps he was having an off day..

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Conceptual Art Product

So did anyone watch the programme on the telebox recently following the art students at Goldsmiths? I didn’t think so. Anyway, it was a great insight in to how wide of the mark even the supposed “cream of the crop” artists can be.

Orange Road Lines

Can I Park Here?

  So what the hell does that mean? Is this a money making venture to catch people out?  Or did the person who mixed the paint have a hangover? Answers in the comments section please!

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A Vote for Apathy

Here’s a public service message from Virgin Active: Don’t worry about all that politics nonsense! Its boring! Come to our gym and have a party with all the other body fascists instead! Give me strength…

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