My Strange Waterproof Jacket

I’ve started a health initiative, by cycling to work. It saves me time and gets me awake and alert in the morning. I always take my waterproof over-trousers and over-jacket, in case the weather turns bad.

Well, I was glad today, it was bucketing down after work. While putting the jacket on I noticed the care instructions.

1. Hand wash only
2. Use a mild detergent
3. Keep out of direct sunlight
4. Store in a …

What? Keep the jacket out of direct sunlight? What use is that? Night time, caves, mines….that’s about it.

Lost Email

My friend at work recently received an email from the central email router software, stating that an email addressed to him had been held back and if he needed if, he had to give a business justification to release it.

He replied that he couldn’t tell, as he didn’t know what the email contained, and asked for it to be released to him.

The reply came back that they couldn’t release the email because it contained offensive language.

He decided not to take me up on my suggestion of replying with:

“Well fuck you then.”

Bloody Hell!

The Australia travel board commissioned a series of adverts (TV, billboard, etc) in the UK along the slogan of “Where the bloody hell are you?”, a joke about them getting the country ready for a visit.

However, the word “bloody” had to be removed from the bilboards, and from the TV ads before the watershed.

This when there are adverts already out there with half naked people running about, not to mention the Audi “spider” advert which is pretty disturbing (especially in the cinema with the surround sound).

Has the world suddenly gone mad recently, or have I just failed to notice it’s always been this way?

Basic Instinct 2 – Film Edited

Errm….have I missed the point on this one?

The film was originally released in the US on a NC-17 certifictate (equivalent to an 18 in the UK), but was then edited to get a lower certificate (and hence a potentially wider audience). To accomodate this, several of the scenes where the actors err…wear less clothing, shall we say, were removed. Including one scene with a lot of actors wearing not very much, if you get my drift.

Umm… Isn’t that the point of the movie in the first place? Why would anyone watch this film for any other reason?

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | ‘Hanoi Jane’ honour is defeated

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | ‘Hanoi Jane’ honour is defeated

Jane Fonda is denied an honour because she visited a gun battery site in Vietnam. In 1972.

OK, I’m going to say this one last time about the Vietnam war. You lost! Get over it!

She’s been doing charity work for longer than I’ve been alive. if that doesn’t cancel out one lapse of judgement, I don’t know what does.

Star Wars Galaxies – Faffing About

In the latest update, the following change was made:

In “Mouselook” mode, if the “disable strafing with turn keys” option is checked, turning will rotate your character and not strafe (change made based on community feedback).

(”Mouse look” is when your cursor is locked and you will see a targeting reticle, “cursor mode” is when the cursor is moveable and you will see an arrow as your cursor. You change between the two modes by pressing the ALT key (by default).

This is the original setting for this option. The devs have been faffing about with this for ages, and the community has been complaining that it was a useless change that was needlessly changed over and over again.

‘Community feedback’ indeed…

The Hills Have Eyes (remake) Trailer

The Hills Have Eyes is, according to the cinema trailer, “Terrifying audiences across America.”

This was intercut with night vision shots of the audience.

They didn’t look terrified. They didn’t jump. They didn’t cower away from the screen.

They looked bored.

They were barely moving.

Woman loses frozen embryos fight

Woman loses frozen embryos fight

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4779876.stm

The question is, does it matter if the embryos are in a storage facility, or in her womb?

I don’t think so.

If she became pregnant naturally after both parties agreed to have children, then it’s her choice what happens to the embryos.

If they are created and viable, but held in storage, it’s suddenly a decision they both have to agree on.

I’m sorry but people can’t have it both ways. You can’t say that destruction of these viable embryos is right just because one parent doesn’t want them but on the other hand say that abortion is ok if the mother doesn’t want the child. The point of conception has passed.
The father deciding he doesn’t want the children is too late. His option to withdraw ended five years ago when the embryos were created.

Channel Island Tax Loophole Closed

With the loophole being closed on films operating in the UK, but using Jersey based distributors, does the government really believe that online stores will simply start charging their customers VAT thereby destroying the only advantage they have? Who wants to pay the same price for a DVD online and then have to wait 2-5 days to get it when you can go to the nearest high street store and buy it there?

Or, as I believe, will these companies move so they are physically located in Jersey (like Play.com), thereby destroying UK based jobs?

This is useless legislation. It will change nothing.

For more details: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/jersey/4759422.stm

Entry for March 03, 2006

On Wednesday my company, which shall be identified only by its initials SL, took action against a highly controversial and lewd website.

They banned www.dictionary.com

I, of course, immediately sent an email to the IT deppartment askng why they didnt’ want us to no how 2 spel things.

I’m still waiting for a reply.