Not been around for a while

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Dec 192010

As stated in my previous entry, I started work on Monday, so haven’t really spent that much time online. Been trying to relax my mind after a days work which is difficult to do when catching up on emails and other stuff.

 

Now that’s out of the way, time to get to real subject of this post.

Why are we so ill prepared when bad weather strikes? All of the ministers say that we won’t be caught out if it happens again, yet here we are a year on and no lessons have been learnt, within an hour of the snow falling the  whole transport infrastructure grinds to a halt. Pretty poor planning if you ask me, maybe the transport minister should take a leaf out of his scots counterpart and tender his resignation for the inadequate handling of the situation.

So how to the US and Canada cope when severe weather strikes? They have it every single year, lets have a look at what they’re doing to cope, things don’t seem to grind to a halt over there at the slightest snowflake.

 

Posted by wizzardsblog at 4:04 pm

BBC News - Panorama - Mother labels computer games a 'dangerous tool'

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Dec 062010
via news.bbc.co.uk

Are they really a “dangerous tool”? It seems when violence is mentioned computer games are lumped into it.

Who’s to know that her son wouldn’t have become addicted to something else and become equally as violent?

Sure spending 20 hours in a single World of Warcraft session, immersed in the fantasy world is going to do something to your mind. The same can be said for anything you immerse yourself into.

I used to spend 8 hours or more a day playing. I guess I’m lucky that I don’t have an addictive personality. I still spend quite a bit of time playing, albeit sessions spread out in between doing other more important things.

As already pointed out, there are parental controls built into the game to prevent such occurences.

Unless I’m reading this wrong, as for not going to school he’s 19, unless this happened a few years ago?

Posted by wizzardsblog at 12:25 pm

Flower Council Holland - Auto playing music

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Oct 202010

Another one through mutual points, this time  with auto playing music, you get a free bouquet for clicking through the link to the Flower Council website, be warned, music plays as soon as the site loads. Did I mention it’s another of my pet hates?

 

Posted by wizzardsblog at 11:22 am

Jean-Patrique Cookware - Auto playing video

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Oct 192010

You’ve probably never even heard of Jean-Patrique Cookware at: http://www.jean-patrique.co.uk/index.html

Currently through a company called mutual points, you earn points for clicking through links in the emails they send you. There is currently an offer going on for knife sets. 

Upon going through to the special offer they break my cardinal rule, auto playing video, within a couple of seconds Jean Patrique walks across the screen telling you about the offer, we can already see the offer.

Even though your £1.99 knife set offer is appealing the video isn’t, please turn the autoplay off.

 

Posted by wizzardsblog at 12:10 pm

Rude people

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Sep 022010

There are some rude people about. I was standing in Tescos just skim reading a paper, a lady struts up to me and shouts excuse me. That’s fine but what irked me is when she started rudely jabbing her finger  towards the newspapers.

Her hearing can’t have been that brilliant or she was so far up herself, I muttered “no need to be rude”.

Remove the stick from up your arse and use the manners your parents taught you.

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Are we going backwards as a society?

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Jun 132010

This little post of mine is in response to @Article_Dan’s post on his posterous blog regarding his wife being hounded in a Sainsbury’s cafe because she had the audacity to breast feed her baby in a public place.  Here’s the link:

http://article_dan.posterous.com/breastfeeding-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem

(And no I’m not going to censor the link because it contains swearing.)

Some of the comments within sicken me, especially from those who do so under a cloak of anonymity.

It is a perfectly natural thing to do. Some people really do need to open their minds. If you don’t like it, don’t stand and stare, walk away or look away, no one is forcing you to watch the woman trying to feed her baby.

We have come along way with our social attitudes in certain respects, unfortunately the ground we are making is being slowly eroded away by closed minded individuals. Those who hide behind the political correctness banner. Before someone berates me again and says  it has nothing to do with being PC, it damn well does. Oh let’s not say or do something to upset the minority,  what a load of BS.

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Posted by wizzardsblog at 12:09 pm

People living in la-la land

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Apr 032010

Just had to post this after reading this article on Digital Spy:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/news/a212260/nicky-campbell-swears-on-breakfast-show.html

So we aren’t allowed a slip of the tongue without a lot of people who live in la-la land complaining about it? He even apologised straight afterwards.

Please get a grip on reality and complain about things that really matter.

Posted by wizzardsblog at 3:54 pm

Withheld phone numbers

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Mar 082010

Please do not call me on my mobile from a withheld number. I like to know who’s calling me. Please put 1470 or what ever prefix in front of it.

Or leave me a message so I can return your call. I don’t want to end up talking to a sales person trying to flog me the latest time saving device.

Posted by wizzardsblog at 12:13 pm

npower!!!!

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Mar 052010

Do your departments actually communicate with each other? Apparently not. I would really like to know how npower is set up so I can appreciate the reason behind the lack of communication between departments.

Please do not insult my intelligence by telling me the computer produces your correpsondence automatically, there has to be some form of human intervention at some point.

Answers on a postcard please.

Posted by wizzardsblog at 2:47 pm

This is so laughable

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Feb 212010
Swimming goggles
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This article on digitalspy made me shake my head.

Yes we do need health and safety to prevent accidents, what about kids that have sight defects? That need the goggles so they can see properly. I speak from experience, I’ve suffered from short sightedness since the age of 10 and when I used to go to the swimming pool, I couldn’t see a thing because I didn’t have goggles. Nothing mentioned about potential eye strain.

There are pescription goggles out there for kids, but under this new ruling they’d be banned from using them unless their eyes become irritated by the chemicals in the water.

So parents smother your kids in cotton wool so they don’t feel the affects of the big bad world and then wonder why they end up in hospital with a huge infection because their bodies haven’t been allowed to build up an immunity.

Fly me to the moon somebody!!!

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