Another post of random daily thoughts
Actually, after my post yesterday, isn’t this the way to go? After all, there’s people out there making hundreds of post each day on twitter, I’m just trying to assemble a few quick thoughts from the day into one simple blog post, but hopefully extending some of them a little bit out beyond 140 characters where necessary:
- Firstly, and perhaps most obviously, good riddance to Michael Martin, by yesterday he had clearly lost the dressing room, but it is all well and good to make the speaker the scapegoat, and say it is imperative that a person in such a position should have full respect, but how about the Prime Minister?
- Didn’t Gordon Brown lose all possibility of being respected the moment he did a U-turn on the election that never was? And let’s say nothing about gold reserves and getting rid of boom and bust!
- This is supposed to be a vaguely-relevant-to-affiliate-marketing blog, so I’ll try and post something on that topic later in the week!
- Well, it is TV time now, I am keen to catch up with prison Break, but don’t like hanging around during ad breaks. So what’s the best time to start watching (I have a Sky+ box)? About 20 minutes in?
- Where can I get some sour grapes? Or at least some grapes that aren’t so sweet? Apparently the grapes used to make wine are inedible, but there must be some hybrid grapes out there that are the equivalent of let’s say 70% cocoa dark chocolate.
- I don’t like being ripped off, but yesterday I was overcharged in Marks & Spencer’s of all places — shows why it is always best to keep a rough tally of what you are spending, and always check receipts. Never assume that a product marked as a special offer is still going to be charged as such at the till!
- I’m having another quick twitter session today, but I’m still not sure whether it’s one big waste of time, or a useful way of sharing information. Jury definitely still out on this one, but at least I have my TV viewing coming up in a moment.
- I promise my next blog post will be more of an essay, but should blogs really be that way? If the blog is supposed to be more of a diary and a sketchbook, then surely it should be kept nice and scrappy, and not everything has to make sense, or be blocked together in the same category.
- Speaking of which, I went to join my library today for the first time since moving to Coventry six years ago. I took out couple of books (you know, those big papery things with words and pictures in them), but I’m not sure if I’ll ever actually read them — the same goes for most other books, well, I will at least look at the pictures, but I never get very far with the text. At least with websites, you can just hunt and scan to find what you want. The urban planner in me still wonders how long it’ll be before places like libraries become obsolete, but when I went into Coventry Central library today it was at least quite busy.
- After yesterday’s frustrations, voice recognition seems to be behaving reasonably well, and yes, it does at last recognise the F-word, but thankfully I haven’t needed to use it.
Right, that’s enough for now, I think I can go and rewind the Skybox of the start of Prison Break!
