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  1. 29
    Mar

    How to irritate people in the UK

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    by Darren
    It is a wonderful pastime in the UK, queuing. We are great at it, but this surely is a step too far. It is frustrating at the moment to be stuck behind someone who can’t remember their PIN number, or someone who is trying all their accounts to find one that isn’t overdrawn and so will cough up the cash. But to be able to play games, print photos and so forth would push the normal Brit reserve over the edge.



    40 years on – the cashpoint gets a makeover – Yahoo! News UK
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  2. 28
    Mar

    Cold Tea Again

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    by Darren

    Just in case you never read the sidebar of this ‘ere blog, you may have not noticed that Cold Tea Again is back and running, or being blogged to. Basically this is my ‘more’ cynical take on things from around the world. I’ll get around to a redesign soon, although currently I am suffering from ‘one-hour-less-at-the-weekend-really-throws-my-body-into-a-mess-itus’.

    Life is really busy and losing the hour in order to make the evenings brighter hasn’t so far been the positive event it should have been. I’ve been trying to nap of evenings but at the moment getting up an hour earlier each day is taking its toll; British Summertime Lag.

    If you want to know what I am doing you can follow it on Twitter, another new way to express thineself on t’internet, and via my sidebar – see it is a very important part of this blog. As is the title, which I shall be working on over the weekend :-)

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  3. 27
    Mar

    Blog Death threat, the meme to follow

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    by Darren
    Ok, what has happened is totally out of order, I mean when have people been threatened for saying what they think? Is free speech dead? Oh yea, it always has been if you don’t say what is socially acceptable.



    What is worrying about this post on the BBC site (and before you complain I read Kathy’s blog and think she is a wonderful blogger and death threats are totally out of order) is the comment that bloggers are doing their own investigation. Can you imagine it, within days we’ll have a meme doing the blogosphere rounds



    1 Tell me 5 things about you know one knows

    2 What drugs have you taken

    3 How many times have you had sex in the last week

    4 Have you recently sent a death threat to a fellow blogger



    After you have done this tag the local law enforcement agency



    BBC NEWS | Technology | Blog death threats spark debate
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  4. 27
    Mar

    Coronation Street fans treated like the rest of us

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    by Darren
    It’s hard to believe but Coronation Street fans have been treated like the rest of humanity. They have been abused by a drunk. It is almost as shocking as the abuse poured out by Shatner on Star Trek nerds many moons ago. When will this fan abuse end.



    BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Coronation Street actor suspended



    PS What do you expect being fan of a pathetic soap opera.

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  5. 26
    Mar

    Who do I write for?

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    by Darren

    This post is in reply to a tag from Camille, don’t you just love being tagged? Actually this one was a little different to normal tags and has actually had me thinking about it for a while. The subject of the tag is ‘who do I write for?’ and so with no further ado, let’s get on with it.

    I blog, therefore I am would be a far too pretentious way to say that I simply write what is within, so I won’t say that, even if it is somewhat true (so does that make it unpretentious? – I need to get out more)

    What I write depends on the context. So if it is at my livejournal account, what I write comes from deep within, it is my ‘journal’ (this post isn’t rocket science) and is used in that sense. I have always been interested in journaling but never got into the swing of it before the world of blogging, so my LJ is my journal.

    I also write because I want to share, my imaginality site is my little way of sharing what I have learnt over the years at my current job. I work in a creative industry (yes, Andrew, I did struggle with calling SU an industry, but thought that keeping it vague would be good) and need to be as creative as possible. Therefore that site is where I share some creative insights.

    How I write perhaps answers the tag question more effectively. I write in a style that I feel comfortable with, and I feel comfortable with who I am. I write as I live, a little cynically (I am working on that, a little is fine but it can be too much at times), a little cheekily, a bit aloof (ignorance with no desire to learn is a pet hate), but as friendly as I can be (I am not the most sociable chap on the planet [see myers-briggs INTP for confirmation] but online I find it much easier to say how I feel and share myself, and so I do).

    So I think that those whom I write for are, myself and anyone else who wants to enjoy the journey that we are all embarked upon.

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