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Fancy a very entertaining 10-minute CGI cartoon for free? Then head over to Big Buck Bunny and download this very entertaining short. You can watch it on YouTube etc, but I’d heartily recommend cranking up your preferred torrent program and downloading the high-quality version.
The film’s been made using all freeware utilities by a group of people who just fancied pushing the software to its limits. It’s no Wall-E, but damn impressive for what it is with some wonderfully giggly moments.
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I was “tagged” by Amy for this one:
Q. Five names you go by:
I don’t have another two. Unless I just include insults.
Q. Three things you are wearing right now:
Q. Two things you want very badly at the moment:
Q. Two things you did last night:
Q. Two things you ate today:
Q. Two people you last talked to on the phone:
Q. Two things you are going to do tomorrow:
Q. Two longest car rides:
Q. Two of your favorite beverages:
Q. The people you’d like to respond:
Bizarre little game, this one. It’s more of a test, in a way. You know how when you check a picture to see if it’s level just by looking at it? This is called “eyeballing”, and the game tests your ability to perform various tasks of this ilk.
Definitely easier with an accurate mouse than a trackpad on a laptop, believe me.
Have fun: Eyeballing Game
For the first time since I was about 12, I think I’d rather be living in the US than the UK.
I’ve spent all day with BBC News in the background and it’s depressing. So many jobs going, hard-working people being forced onto the dole pile and the pound diving lower almost every minute. My upcoming trip is going to be a lot more expensive than it would have been only 6 months ago.
However, one pair of statements really made my ears prick up.
First up was the Labour plan to exempt MPs from having to disclose their expenses. After all the fuss in recent months regarding those very people screwing us over because they knew they could hide it, what on earth made them think it would be a popular move with the voting public to legalise hiding such details?
Amazingly, though, their own MPs and Conservative opposition actually made loud rumblings against it and it seems it won’t get through – assuming they don’t find another way to bury it. Given the whole Freedom of Information thing, any fiddling would all come to light anyway. Just too late for us to to anything other than point fingers But to try and hide it all in the first place… pathetic.
Completely the opposite was Obama‘s first statement as President. All wages of high-earning White House staff have been capped. The giving and receiving of gifts (*cough*bribes*cough*) banned from lobbyists to members of the Administration. Outright. No more can lobbyists walk into an administrative position and work on anything to do with what they used to lobby for. Likewise, no member of staff can walk out and into a lobbying position against the Administration.
Sheer common sense, but unfortunately simple guidelines that have been ignored in the past. Now they’ve been put into place formally so that hopefully a reduction in corruption will follow.
Essentially, while our government throws a hissy fit about not being able to be secretive, the US government has announced a plan to be more transparent than it has been for decades. As the title says – this is a bit backwards to the last few years, isn’t it?
Today the Post Office (and therefore it’s four subsidiaries) announced that it was in the black for the first time in four years. Incredible given the current economic climate, but perhaps not so surprising given its still near-monopoly position in a lost of cases.
However, I can tell you one thing that they’ve managed to do which would explain their financial stead-footedness: they’re ******* ****. Still.
I’ve railed on about the post before, and today I found another example. Last week I ordered some laptop memory from a company called Offtek. I had it sent recorded delivery and expected it in a couple of days, maybe a week as the post at Leah’s is particularly ****. I think Hanoi is the only other place I’ve been with such regularly inexplicable delays.
I remember from one argument a few years ago, that the Post Office now promise to deliver your mail by midday (remember when you got it before breakfast?), yet Leah’s arrives around 13:30 each day. Not that it makes any difference to someone who’s working as they won’t be in to collect anything that requires a signature anyway.
Regardless, I got an email from a member of staff at Offtek earlier. My package had been bounced back to them as the postie couldn’t find the right letterbox and gave up. For ****’s sake. Without giving her address away, Leah lives on the third floor of a 3-floor block of flats. There are two flats on each floor.
The address on the package was “Flat 3/2”. Now, this could mean two things – third floor, second flat; or third flat, second floor. As the latter simply doesn’t exist you’d think the obvious reasoning therefore is that it must be the former.
Remember that the package was recorded delivery, so someone would have to sign for it anyway. This means they could double-check. And if nobody was there to receive it, then they’d have to provide ID to pick it up at the parcel depot.
So why the **** did it end up being returned to sender? Oh, that’s right. Because the Post Office is ******* ****.
I do know someoe who works as a post-person and I don’t think she’s that stupid, so perhaps we just have a particularly workshy, brain-starved YTS-er working here. Either way, it’s bloody frustrating as I’d really like the chance to burn in the memory before I bugger off to Thailand next Tuesday.
As it is, Offtek very kindly agreed to re-send it to Andy down in London for me. And they reckon it’ll get to him tomorrow when he’s working from home. All at no additional cost to me. So thank you, Offtek. Assuming the memory works you’ll be getting a very rare recommendation from yours truly!
The Post Office, on the other hand, can **** off. I don’t care if you’re doing well if the reason for doing so is that your service is ****.
