New blog on the block

I have configured the new server - and it is located here. I have not managed to work out how to get dailypropaganda.co.uk to point to this computer yet, but it will (hopefully) only be a matter of days.

This blog will not have any more posts on it - but please don't update your bookmarks, as dailypropaganda.co.uk will (some day soon) point to the correct thing.

As a scientist

this article hits home. Apparently, of 11,000 children questioned, 40% said they didn't want to be a scientist "Because you would constantly be depressed and tired and not have time for family".

If they had added something about the miserly pay, the children would have got the bullet between the eyes.

Technical problems

In top 'plus.net' fashion, they are having technical difficulties with dailypropaganda.co.uk. I can't get the domain to point to my server, due to their lack of flexibility and incompetence, so I will transfer it away from them. Plus.net have to be the worst ISP in the world - from both a internet usage and domain hosting point of view. Once I transfer dailypropaganda.co.uk from them, I will be glad to never have to deal with them again.

Observations about Switzerland

The Swiss are incredibly patriotic. The shops have huge promotional displays of products with "Swiss Made" stamps on them. People buy "Swiss Made" products, even though foreign imports can often be cheaper and better quality.

Even Macdonalds feels it is necessary to tell everyone it purchases *everything* from Switzerland:










What a strange country. Oh... to be Swiss.

Fife

What is it about Fife - that oh-so-lovely(TM) county in the bowels of Scotland - that attracts leaderships contenders? After all, Brown is a Fifer and it seems Menzies Campbell has been pulling the daggers out of late. The 'support' Ming the Merciless gave Kennedy in December, stating "As long as Charles Kennedy remains leader of the Liberal Democrats he has my full support.", yet as little as three weeks later (with Christmas in the middle too), Kennedy quits. Was it daggers at dawn, Ming?

And how ironic that the three major UK parties could be led by Scots, or those with Scottish ancestry.

Back

Well I am back - it's been a fun ride, but my family and I are now safely installed in parts foreign, although we don't have internet access at home yet.

More later....

p.s I have filled out the form to join 'the party'.