Good Moaning

Pissed off? Me? Why do you ask?

Bah. Bah, bah and thrice bah.

Got a spiffy new wireless keyboard and mouse and got rid of the old nasty sticky brick of a thing and all its attendant cordage, only for the new one to go tits-up a couple of days later leaving me functionally illiterate, blog-wise..

So now I have another new plugged-in jobby to get used to with my fingers feeling like sausages; I bought it just yesterday and already I’ve found the down, delete, insert and page down keys don’t work and I’m ready to throw the effing thing at the wall.

Unfortunately I have no other option but than to use it for the rest of the day, so expect more tpos.

I don’t what it is, but life always conspires to find me somehow offline whenever something really interesting happens, especially when it’s something I’ve been banging on about for years and actually know something about, like social security, tax and benefit systems and their IT and management shortcomings. (See Martin’s previous post and the front page of every major UK newspaper an media outlet)

Anyhow, now I am back online I shall spend the morning reading the public’s response on all the blogs and comment threads, but I suspect the overwhelming reaction’ll be similar to my own – Jesus wept, how much more incompetent can this bloody government be?

No post for you


wait I can fix this

Palau has computer problems, so no posts for you today, unless I get off my lazy ass and do something substantial later.

Thought For The Day

Sometimes it’s no pleasure

BBC, Nov 5:” A wave of foreclosures and evictions is about to sweep the United States in the wake of the sub-prime mortgage lending crisis. “

to have predicted correctly.

Me, Sept 7. “A slow tsunami of debt, misery and homelessness is about to roll over the United States, and consequently the rest of us, if the financial markets do not stabilise soon. It’s already on it’s way and picking up speed.”

Back In Service

My venerably ancient keyboard went ‘splurk’ and died on me on Friday so after trekking all the way into town to get a new one, something I could’ve done without, I thought I was set for blogging at the weekend, ionly for the ADSL to go kerflooey as well.

Everything seems to be working again now, for the moment. So, did anything happen while I was offline?

Oh.

Comedy Double: Postponed Sorted

Sorry, I have a blinding headache: normal posting will resume as soon as it’s gone. In the meantime, the Comedy Double archive is getting pretty big. If you’re looking for a Friday giggle, why not take a lucky dip?

EDIT Martin: Oh, alright then, the following video is bizarre but cheerful enough for the Comedy Double: some Japanese bubblegum popgroup prancing around in their underwear:

Well, I liked it…

Okay, one more. The Wiggles is some not very talented ozzie band who decided early on their career that children are stupid enough to swallow a lot of dumb shit and since then they’ve infested merkin telly, though fortunately they have not yet been seen in cloggieland, thank fug. Here’s what happens when they’ve taken a slightly too big tab of acid before creating one of their videos: