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Hi there Spnak Fans. Well the holiday is done and dusted and I am back on Terra firma again. I have decided I hate flying… the thought of being cooped up in a flying baked bean can does not seem like an enjoyable thing to me any more. But hey, all good things come with the bad.

The holiday was great. I was present almost at the birth of my 7th grandchild, i say almost, i was getting coffee as the baby was being born. Linda was in the delivery suite with Brandy watching the c-section. In fact she was so engrossed in the doings she forgot to take pictures of the actual birth…DOH.

I held the baby within an hour of her birth and it was amazing. I felt like goo holding a precious little life in my clumsy big stubby hands. She didn’t open here eyes once the whole time i was holding her that first time, but she clutched at my finger when I held in her hand. I had a lump in my throat and it was hard to hold back the tear in my eye.

As the days went on and i held the baby more and more she started to snarf and gurgle when she was held and she started to open her eyes and she started to create her own little character. When she slept she slept soundly and when she was hungry she let the world know about it. She was perfect.

With that being said I proudly present the latest addition to the family:

Susana Rose Williams b 12.10.07 11.22am, weighing 7lb 6oz, 19.5 inches long, ten fingers ten toes and all things in the right place.

Is it too obvious that I am a proud grand-dad?

Until Next Time…

This is a tough post to write but I think I have to write about this.

In Sundays Obvserver this week stating that economic migrants should not be automatically put to the top of the queue for social houseing, and that ordinary uk citizens should take priority.

Now as I said at the start of this post it’s a tough one to write. How do I sufficiently explain how I feel without coming across as some right wing nut job who has a long standing membership to the BNP. That couldn’t be further from the truth but I do feel strongly that people who are born and raised in this country should be first on the list for houseing.

I do believe that people who are in trouble and have no where else to go, political migrants, for instance. These people need our help straight away, but if your here to make money just because our standard of lioving is higher than your country then you need to pay your way and not expect the country to pay your way.
Rant over.

For more on this check out the original article

So we are almost caught up, just two more hours to watch and we’ll be up to date. In last nights marathon I saw one digit (a thumb) being cut off.. it wouldn’t be 24 without something being chopped off. We also got to see Jack self harm. The man is like a bucket of lead. He stuck himself with a switchblade and didn’t cry once. I mean he is one crazy MOFO.

I came to the conclusion that each year they try and get more shocking events but I really think they may have gone to far this time… I mean did you see the suit that Michelle was wearing… talk about IRON BITCH mode. She looked much better in the old shows in a pant suit… OH FUCK ME>>> I AM SOUNDING LIKE ONE OF THOSE MUPPETS OF QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY…. nahhhhhhhh not going down that road anymore…

Ideas… It’s being reported today that the UK is on heightened alert for terrorist attacks (is anyone seeing a thread here?????). Read the BBC report here.
You can call me a cynic but when an insurance company say that there is an increased risk of an attack… surely that is just going to suggest that people need to upgrade there policy… add a few extras on there… everything is suspect in my world..HAHAHA.

That’s it from me for today.. I can’t think of any other suspicious things going on.. but have no fear dear reader…. something will sneak up on me and cause me to think “Are they watching me?”

Until Next Time…

Today it was announced with great suprise (sarcasm off) that the UK will have a General Election on May 5th. Why the sarcasm…. Well since Christmas at least they have been touting that date as apossible for the election and we have had almost 4 months of intense politiking leading up to the announcement today.

It’s going to be a tough month coming up, the news will be full of how many babies were kissed how many arses were licked and how many school dinners were served. I just hope that some one makes it interesting.. and i don’t mean that arrogant twat Kilroy-Silk. I didn’t like him on TV and I can’t stand the moron now he is a politician again. What we need is someone the people can trust. Someone who speaks what’s on his mind and tells the truth.

To this end I plan on Voting for Homer Simpson for Prime Minister.

You know it makes sense, Vote from your Gut

Until Next Time…

It’s not a thing I plan on doing a lot, but for an experiment in my own analytical skills, I am going to select some news items and present them here. I may do this daily (unlikely) or I may do this weekely (getting warmer) I may never do this again (a possibility). But this is what I have found over the past couple of days.
Oh yeah, it’s nothing of earth shattering importance, just a few articles that took my eye.

Laptop for every child

This idea is pure genius. Just imagine the standard of education that could be achieved if the money saved from buying paper books was eliminated and all books needed for education could be included on 1 single dvd rom disk. Take that idea one step further and imagine that each class only needs ONE disk.
Granted I am looking at this from a UK standpoint. But can you imagine the education your children could recieve with this technology. No longer would there be out of date books giving yesterdays information.
Imagine being able to use multimedia technology to show children how DNA works, How the Human Body works. Imagine being able to scan through Hamlet and find a quote in seconds and be able to understand it minutes later.Think of the trees saved by not chopping them down to make books for classrooms.

As the article points out there are downsides.. Kids break stuff and computers are fragile things, but surely this can be overcome by the kids learning how to fix the computers. Vocational education at it’s best.

The sooner this happens the better it will be for our kids and their education.

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Bloke Gives up broadband

Now this fella needs help. He has no self restraint at all and then he blames broadband for not getting any work done.
PLEASE you muppet. Broadband has an off switch just like your old dial up did. Just because your not paying by the minute doesn’t mean you have to leave it on 24-7.

People who slam tecnological advancements because they don’t know how to use them properly should not use a microwave let alone a PC. Faster connections means faster communication. Evolution has too happen. If we hadn’t evolved in connection speed we would all still be using 14.4k connections and you would never be able to see what is happening around the world and the Internet and it’s associated applications and uses would have died before it was born.

We cannot go back. Forward is the way. If it’s not your cup of tea then quietly go about your business and take what you need and leave the rest to those of us who want the Phat Pipes to play games and listen to the BBC online at the same time.

Without my broadband connection I would never have been able to see my grandchildren wave to me Christmas morning or see my nephew play the drum kit I bought him for Christmas.

Moving on from the issue of downgrading a broadband connection, there should be more discussion of regrading what’s presently available. More and more companies are offering faster and faster download speeds yet the upload capacity has stayed the same for day dot. It’s only just with the recent announcement of an 8meg download that the upload speeds have been increased. Why is this?
More and more ISP’s are starting to cap download bandwidth because an unlimited usage is “an Unviable business plan.” When are regular shmoes going to get the increase that our european and canadian geek brethren have?
I don’t have the answers but I am going to try and find out.

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Until Next Time