Oh, FFS Auntie, it’s not that hard….

Via PC World, Windows users only for the BBC’s new iPlayer service. Mmmmm, great news for Mac and Linux users, then.
‘The BBC Trust, an independent organization which took over oversight of the BBC from the old Board of Governors in January, has asked that the company develop a version of iPlayer that runs on different [...]

D-Day

We are approaching decision day. On Thursday, I need to decide with whom place my vote. Bit of a tricky one, that.
Where I am registered to vote, Nottingham, we have a long standing Labour council in the city, who have been in power for ever. They need shifting ~ badly. Anyone who can spend more [...]

All your base are belong to us Pt II

Much better resourced folk than myself are investigating this, so I’ll link to them when they’ve got something new, i.e. like who on earth signed us up for this crock. However, in the meantime, may I suggest the item below is issued to all MP’s, MEP’s, and assorted pigs with their snouts in the trough [...]

All your base are belong to us

MP’s have warned that under the guises of the Bologna Process the EU was attempting a smash and grab raid to control our Universities and Further Education establishments.
‘The MPs accuse the commission of seeking to take power over universities in the 45 countries that have signed up to the “Bologna Process” to harmonise university qualifications.
While [...]

Beeb gets to keep it’s special status

The Balen report won’t now be made public, after Steven Sugar lost his appeal. This stinks, as I’ve blogged before. I can see the justification for a public broadcaster to be exempt from the FOI act for things directly related to “the purposes of journalism.”, in order to protect sources, methods, etc. But a retrospective [...]

Eco bag is an ‘unethical con’

No, not this;

this…!

Labour MP is an unpleasant excuse for a human being shocker

Excellent stuff from Mr Dale. Blogging at it’s best, go read.

Nanny state polices your plate

Via C4 and the Beeb more banning.
‘Which? is lobbying for stricter controls to help protect youngsters’ health.
Sustain, Diabetes UK and the National Union of Teachers are supporting the calls and have all signed a letter to public health minister Caroline Flint.
The letter calls on the Government to step in to tighten the Committee of Advertising [...]

WordPress playing up

The comments section appeared closed on all of yesterdays posts. I have no idea why this is, and was struggling to get into the wordpress dashboard to fix it. It should now be sorted.
Update: It appears that, whatever options I actually choose, a post will always initially appear with comments closed, and not to allow [...]

Fib Demmer doesn’t understand ‘choice’

I have blogged previously about my distain for the inappropriately named Liberal Democrats, but this is class….
Norfolk Blogger, it appears, is a bit clueless about the concept of customer choice.
OK, so here is the scene. The league of interfering busy bodies Transport Committee are holding an inquiry into (wait for it..) ‘PASSENGERS’ EXPERIENCE OF AIR [...]