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Flying Aqua Badger

Dan Hill of the Flying Aqua Badgers' home from home. Using this blog to learn about himself. It could be done in private but where's the fun in that...

4mph PostiesDecember 11 2008

Saw this in response to the BBC 'Have your say' section on management pressure of postal workers.

Added: Thursday, 11 December, 2008, 14:30 GMT 14:30 UK

Years ago the Post Office set out the numbering of a large estate in Andover, laid out according to their requirements. Needless to say nobody could find any of the houses without additional signage. Nothing much seems to have changed with the Post Office Management.

Bary P, Havant

Wonder which estate this was...

Appetite for TaxesNovember 10 2008

Here's a crazy situation. The leading parties of the country all start proposing tax cuts and yet it is an unpopular move. Why? Because it has an ultimately self defeating purpose. It stops guaranteed spending (which we need, it's not necessarily on what we need, it's this Labour government after all) and gives it to the people (to hoard or spend, depends how lucky we get).

The most worrying thing nowadays is the job market and job security. An extra £10 a month in the pay packet is not going to do much for confidence if the job goes in 6 months. Collectively, I think we'd all feel better if the government was using it to sure up our economy in a professional manner.

Buy up the abandoned development sites and finish the job with social housing if you must. This is the time when governments can spend our money better than we can. Sorry, competent governments can spend our money better than we can. Piddly amounts that we would barely notice anyway.

Cutting taxes whilst borrowing ludicrous amounts of money is always going to smell like vote buying. Or borrowing at least.

Political Deflection Makes My Blood BoilOctober 27 2008

He's beginning to make me angry now. Check out this interview with Gordon Brown.

Interviewer:
"...you also told us, as Chancellor, you ended boom and bust..."
GB:
"What I said is we're not going to return to 15% interest rates like we had under the last world downturn."

No. I distinctly remember you saying multiple times we weren't returning to boom and bust. And I'm getting sick to death of his smugness as he's trying to score points off the Tories when thousands are losing their jobs and seeing their pensions flunk on the Stock Exchange. There's little more disturbing than world leaders that can't take responsibility for their actions.

What I'd like to see is every journalist take a transcript or video recording of one of the numerous times he has spoken about ending boom and bust and go Paxman on him, refusing to go on with the interview until he has answered the question. That'll put an end to his propaganda as he launches into answering his own question.

Silly George - Keep Your Distance Next TimeOctober 21 2008

George Osborne MP has evidently been playing games and has now been cast out of his club for it. The fact that he keeps the same company as corruption media magnet Mandelson only adds to his worries. Rather than trying to score points there he should be distancing himself greatly from anyone occupying the centre of that particular Venn diagram.

And all this when donations to the Conservative Party are barely needed. £50,000 is not a sum to get in trouble over. £5 million, maybe. They are rolling in it while Labour harbours a debt. Quite frankly, I shudder in fear of the idea of the Party in power being in debt: that can only encourage shady shenanigans. So there is no need to draw attention to the issue which is killing off trust, what little remains of it, in British politics.

Front benchers need to steer well clear of such discussions. Close the conversation before it starts, leave the room, it doesn't matter how it ends but it must end sharpish. If the discussion comes up, best thing to do is hush their lips, hand over the party fundraiser's business card and say how delightful the wine is to change topic.

What this episode teaches us is that Osborne has poor judgement when it comes to his rich chums. Its not particularly fun to think of when it comes to the mixing of our politicians and the obscenely rich but they need each other so it should be expected. He needs to address that quickly if he ever hopes to become Chancellor of the Exch

Keyboard SecurityOctober 21 2008

Sensor technology will undoubtedly expand widely in the 21st century. It turns out the electromagnetic radiation produced by keyboards is trackable by radio antenna.

20 meters is still a bit close but I guess I better keep an eye on my neighbours two doors down. Expect some kind of dissipater as a keyboard feature in the future.

/remove tongue from cheek

Source: BBC