Trying to get the site going again
Having neglected the site for quite some time, I`ve decided to try to rip out a lot of the stuff I hacked together, in the name of using some standard tools and keeping the site updated with minimal fuss. The first part of this involves removing my little blog and replacing with WordPress. One thing writing the original code taught me was that it`s fine if you have time to hack code, but when you have a job, a commute, and a life – it`s just not worth the hassle to re-invent the wheel. Also, having played with WordPress a little, it seems pretty good – if I was sad enough, [...]
Disgusted – simply disgusted
A quick post to thank god that The Guardian has the balls to show the disgusting behaviour of London`s Metropolitan Police in London during the 2009 G20 summit.
If you`ve been living in a cave for the last few weeks, you`ll have missed the events in and around London, which included residents being blocked from accessing their own homes, dubious responses to protests, and the (currently) questionable death of Ian Tomlinson.
The Grauniad has an interesting video here which includes a dire Billy Bragg performance, the police surrounding a bunch of sat down, singing protesters with one of their infamous “rings of steel”, a shouty ponce, and knobheads smashing into Royal Bank of Scotland. These knobheads [...]
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