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Comment on Oh my goodness so many conflicting feelings by Onebrow

Onebrow — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:22:58 +0000

I managed to avoid the coverage on this based on my guess that I’d have to put up with Alex Salmond being a smug git on the television and radio coverage. Unfortunately the mere mention of the result brought those images and sounds to my mind immediately.

Comment on Why is technology news not news? by doctorvee

doctorvee — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:57:05 +0000

I remember when I used to use the family computer. It’s an XP machine and since Service Pack 2 was installed it has never been the same since!

Comment on Thoughts on graduating by Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:52:22 +0000

Well, I could have spent £31 on a DVD of me not getting my degree, £36 on the pre-graduation ball, about the same for the various post-graduation parties, an extra £60 on extra photographs (which I didn’t need since I haven’t even given away all the ones that came in the basic pack yet), £10 extra to hire the outfit for a week (and about £200 to keep it), £20 on graduation lunch, about £1400 for a celebratory post-graduation cruise around the Carribean on a tall ship… …if I’d really, really wanted to do all the bells and whistles. But I didn’t, so I kept it reasonably cheap.

The accounting for what I did buy on the day went thus:

£30 - full outfit hire (1 day)
£18 - basic pack of graduation photographs
£10 - lifetime Union membership (so I can go shopping there when I’m in the area - since I bought it on the day, I consider this a graduation expense)
£07 - 3 advance return train tickets to Sheffield

My parents paid for a meal at the local fast food store afterwards. I already had suitable formal clothes to go beneath the graduation robes, along with

The frightening thing is that I got an e-mail a couple of days ago for a reunion - and it’s nearly £40! Added to the strange decision to have a Sheffield Reunion at the House of Lords, it would cost me almost as much to attend the reunion as it did to attend graduation in the first place. And I wouldn’t even get any mementoes of that occasion for the money…

Comment on Why is technology news not news? by Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:38:00 +0000

I’ve found that patching Windows causes a lot more problems than it solves, unless they’ve done the testing associated with a Service Pack. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the one time I tried to download a patch for Windows XP, it crashed the computer and required a re-install just to get it to its pre-updated state.

I saw the DNS patch story near the top of the Teletext news, but it didn’t get a huge amount of coverage on the programmes themselves. Strange, given the importance of the issue.

Comment on Oh my goodness so many conflicting feelings by Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:25:12 +0000

I vote Labour in elections, largely because my local MP is Dennis Skinner, who’s not only Old Labour (as distinct from New Labour), but actually some use in resolving local issues. However, I would much prefer the Liberal Democrats to run the UK, or indeed anyone other than Conservatives (the conservatives who know who they are) New Labour (the conservatives who don’t know who they are) or BNP (who I regard as borderline illegal in their phobia of anything that doesn’t fit their stereotypes).

Comment on Oh my goodness so many conflicting feelings by Craig

Craig — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:44:12 +0000

I genuinely couldn’t care less who won the thing last night, but was gutted this morning when I saw Mr Smug on the news which only confirmed that the SNP had triumphed.

Good luck to them, if they really are the best party for the job, but please, please get rid of Salmond as I feel a deep urge to punch him whenever his face appears onscreen - and I’ve just got a new telly which I don’t really want to break any time soon.

Comment on Oh my goodness so many conflicting feelings by Sara

Sara — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:23:45 +0000

And if any London-types are calling this “Gordon Brown’s backyard” when I wake up in the morning, I am going to kick a brick wall.

Hope you werent listening to Radio Scotland at about 07.30 this morning then. The backyard thing pisses me off too. Glasow as Fife backyard??? yuh huh.

Also, the word back yard is a bit American to me. I don’t have a back yard, I have a back garden.

Comment on Final thoughts on Glasgow East by Vicky

Vicky — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:04:49 +0000

You’re right about the SNP; anti-Westminster doesn’t automatically presume anti-English.

It’s just a shame that - in my experience - those who are tend to vote SNP either a) because they think an SNP Government would hacksaw Scotland off at the border and they would never have to speak to another English person again (except those of us who are already here!) or b) because their parents/grandparents did. It’s really quite depressing, but then again probably not limited to SNP voters.

Comment on Final thoughts on Glasgow East by doctorvee

doctorvee — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:17:59 +0000

Hello,

I don’t live in the Glasgow East constituency so I don’t have any leaflets or anything at all. I’ll try and see if I can get some people to help you though!

Comment on Final thoughts on Glasgow East by By-elections blog

By-elections blog — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:25:01 +0000

I run the By-elections blog

http://by_elections.blogspot.com/

I have just found your coverage of the Glasgow East by-election.

I also help run the By-election archive website at

http://www.geocities.com/by_elections/

Would it be possible for you to help us archive the leaflets from Glasgow East?

please contact me via the website or the blog if you can help with scans or by sending us the leaflets for us to scan.

I look forward to your coverage of the result.

Thanks