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Think of the children!

Mrmist — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 07:13:07 +0000

I’m highly amused that the government are selling the latest bundle of internet censorship as a child protection measure. Apparently all our Internets should be filtered by default because that makes it safer for children. Notice that this is billed as some kind of anti-porn filter, but the actual block is against “harmful content”, which could essentially be “whatever the government wants to block by default.” The reason that we need this seems to be that “Growing numbers of parents do not feel in control of what their families are exposed to online”. Apparently actually watching what your kids are doing and engaging with them so that they don’t need a nannying internet filter is too much effort for the modern family.
Sigh.

tweeting

Mrmist — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:19:11 +0000

It’s been a while since I posted here. Mostly I find it problematic to keep the momentum in blog posts, as they do require some degree of effort to maintain. I’ve just added a link up to my latest tweet (yeah, I’m now “tweeting” or whatever they call it, @mistohise).

I dare say there’s been quite a lot of events that have transpired since January, though right now I’m at a loss to capture them all. Recently there have been horrific coach crashes, Ireland wining the six-nations, more people who are not us wining the lottery. Less recently, I expect other notable things have taken place. I wish you all luck in navigating your own events.

Happy New Year!

Mrmist — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:01:57 +0000

Welcome everyone to the year 2012! I hope you all have a very good and happy one

Train madness

Mrmist — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:06:39 +0000

This is rubbish. A big man chucks a[n allegedly] fair-dodging scroat off of a train and then it’s him who gets pulled up on an assault charge. The fair-dodger’s case still seems to be under advisement. Something seems a bit backwards there.

Dopey

Mrmist — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:14:35 +0000

So it’s been a while since I blogged anything here. The world has been in financial crisis, the Formula 1 has been won by Vettel again, and I’ve been generally entertaining myself with family life and other things.

Sadly last week we lost our speckled chicken Dopey. I can only hope that she had a good life whilst she was with us, short though it was. The vet reckoned that there was probably some kind of internal problem like a twisted stomach that caused her to prolapse. She’s now gone to the big coup in the sky. RIP Dopey. Our other chickens Korma and Tikka are doing fine and are about to embark on their first winter with us. This should be an interesting prospect, which may well be full of me fretting abou their water freezing. We shall see.