*Limp Bizkit Reveal New Album Title*

I saw them at Download Festival in the summer and they were incredible!

Now there's a new album coming out called....

Gold Cobra

Apparently Fred Durst rang the Kerrang offices first to give them the world exclusive before revealing it on Twitter!

I bet the Kerrang offices were a little excited during that phone call!

Labour Does It Again!

As I sat a watched the video below this morning I could not help but look in to the governments plans for ID cards in the coming years.

Their apparent non-compulsory ID cards are going to be implemented under the proposed timetable:

2008: Foreign National ID card launched

2009: UK ID card offered in Greater Manchester

2010: Scheme extended across NW England

June 2010: Last possible date for general election

2011-12: Nationwide roll-out?

Anyone who wants the ID card at the moment can buy one (why!?!) for £30. Yes, £30! That's right people for £30 pounds you can give the government more information about you. For £30 you can have your data stored on a central data base (probably to be lost on the train somewhere...).

How long until it becomes compulsory to buy them I wonder....?

Enjoy Capitalism

I made this video to remind us all that we live in freedom and that we should not take that for granted. Each day our government and the EU removes another freedom from our lives and we just sit and let it happen. Those of our country who continually blame Capitalism for the worst parts of our world forget that they could not protest if they did not have the freedom Capitalism gives them too. That is why we should all stand up for the freedom we have and Enjoy Capitalism!

KRO Watch!

TheAltCon was wandering along the street today and spotted a confused KRO editor standing by this poster...


As far as I know he's still there and just not able to understand the concept of this 'Socialism' stuff...

Time to Make Lecturer's Accountable

Just spotted a new post from YBF about a website called RateMyProfessors.com

As the YBF post outlines what you can rate:

• Easiness
  
• Helpfulness
• Clarity
• Interest level prior to attending class
• Textbook use
• Textbook used (if you know it)
• Grade
• Attendance
• Prof Status (whether they are still teaching or not)
• Appearance (just for fun)
• Class
• and Comments

My personal favourite being rate the appearance of your lecturer! If anyone had a hot lecturer at university all I can say is you lucky person you! Studying politics at Loughborough University meant all I got to look at was lefty lectures. Women not having a clue how to dress and men wearing sandles most of the wear. They were more bothered with their 'research' though than their lecturing so what would they care about their appearance. Might as well look like you've been dragged through a hedge backwards!












This is more my style of lecturer :P

What a Load of Hot Gas...

British Gas are apparently offering to end estimated bills by allowing customers to send in their meter reading each month via text or online. Oooo that sounds like an interesting idea.... But wait I'm sure this isn't new...

I used to work for the power company E.ON and we had customers who would ring us up in customer services every month and give an accurate meter reading to ensure that they did not get an estimated bill. There are also cards put through the door of any customer where meter readers (or Data Collectors if you want their proper title :P) cannot get to the meter and therefore the customers are at risk of getting an estimated bill. For some reason customer's seem to believe it is the responsibility of the power company to come and get a meter reading so that there are no estimated readings. In fact this is not true and power company's only have to collect meter readings once every 18 months.

Even so, the new smart meters that are being brought in around the country are even more hightech than the proposed system by British Gas. They will automatically send meter readings to a central database every month therefore doing away with estimated bills all together!

Wow you all say as you get bored from my knowledge of the gas and electricity metering...

Christmas in the Sun?

A present for a loved one at Christmas?
Here is the blurb:

'This original book considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global warming, and how today this has persuaded politicians to land us with what promises to be the biggest bill in history. Christopher Booker interweaves the science of global warming with that of its growing political consequences, showing how just when the politicians are threatening to change our Western way of life beyond recognition, the scientific evidence behind the global warming theory is being challenged like never before. The book exposes the myth that the global warming theory is supported by a consensus of the world s top climate scientists'.

A interesting read for all don't you think?