Mr Mist’s Blog

So ITV Digital has been placed into administration [news.bbc.co.uk] which doesn’t stop me watching The Simpsons on Sky 1 just yet, but probably will do in the near future as I imagine they will ditch the pay channels making the set top box a bit pointless. I also imagine the subscribers like myself will then desert in droves assuming we can being as they are not living up to their side of the contract and hence the service wont be coming back because noone will really want to pick it up. So all that will be left in the digital world will be sky tv, so so much for the government plans to replace analogue with digital. Pah.

More later, I expect.

Try the What Enneagram type are you? [similarminds.com] test, for a bit of light relief from the world. I came out as mostly a type 5. It said -

"Fives are basically on some level estranged from the rest of the world, consequently, their mind is usually their best friend. They like to analyze things and make sense of them (that is their anchor), this makes them great inventors and philosophers. The immense inner world of fives can cause them to lose touch or interest in reality."

How close is that? Well, fairly. Though I guess most of these things can be *fairly* close….

It’s never easy is it? Amongst the wars and everything else, news is now reported [reuters.co.uk] that Afghanistan has been rocked by earthquakes [news.bbc.co.uk] over the last few days, reaching up to 6.0 on the richter scale [seismo.unr.edu]. This sort of earthquake can cause lots of mess in that kind of area where the buildings simply can’t cope.

In other, rather insane, news some African-Americans are filing a law suit against three big US companies for abuse of the slave trade over a hundred years ago [news.bbc.co.uk]. I really do find this sort of thing absolutely ridiculous. It’s apparently going to be the first of a string of suits along the same lines, that their families in previous generations were abused by these companies. I simply don’t see how this can have any legal basis, the world was totally different when these things were happening.

Yes, if a firm were to support the slave trade *now* then I would expect bad things to happen to them, but to sue for compensation now for things that happened in previous centuries is simply showing how much of a joke the American legal system is, and how much of a law suit culture exists over there.

Of course it’s quickly taking over in England now too, what with all the ridiculous adverts on TV for things like claims direct, most of which when you listen to the people on the advert you can tell *exactly* how the accidents they were involved in occurred, and it was nothing to do with what they are claiming.

Ptish! This whole thing is simply symbolic of how the world is turning more and more self-centered and money-grabing, where people will sue to try and get something for themselves without giving a thought to how any one or thing else might be affected or to the wider implications of their actions.

Going back to the news story, I’m totally on the side of the big businesses in this one, and I hope that some judge decides very early on to throw these cases out of court as the mockeries of justice that they are.

Please, where the hell does it stop? Maybe I should claim against microsoft for attrocities that where done to distant relatives of myself when we were living in caves. My family’s cave was almost totally destroyed. I’d like 6 billion dollars in reparations.

This is my two-hundred and second blog entry. Isn’t that wonderful? Today I bring you the news that the woman sentanced to death by stoning has been acquited [news.bbc.co.uk] only for another one to be sentanced to the same fate.

China has launced another unmanned capsule into space [news.bbc.co.uk] this time with a dummy in it. Apparently this is the forerunner to them putting a man in space, and eventually onto the moon sometime in the future. Well, at least one country is still exploring space then.

Meanwhile over here, the police in Corby are considering imposing a curfew on children in the evenings. [news.bbc.co.uk] Good plan, get em back into their houses, the young whippersnappers.

Lastly for today, in the Oscars [Oscar.com] Denzel Washington won best actor and Halle Berry best actress [news.bbc.co.uk], with A Beautiful Mind winning Best Picture. The Lord of the Rings didn’t really feature. (I’m not all that surprised.)

Uses of money. Here’s one. I just spent lotsofcash buying mrmist.net and mrmist.co.uk. (Someone already has the .com). So soon (possibly tomorrow) this blog will be available in three places at once. How nice is that? Very.