Category Archives: Musings

this idling thing really gets at people, doesn’t it? they’re all fully engaged in rushing to defend work, before they’ve actually realized what’s under discussion here.

i wonder why.

the thing about ’slacking’ / ‘idling’ being deeply ingrained in people’s minds as being ‘wrong’ is clearly true - if anything its more entrenched than even i realized.

that’s fine - if you guys out there who take issue with this idling business, good- why don’t you carry on as you are, ignore me. i simply am writing about it since i find it highly interesting. relax - no one is trying to make you do anything otherwise.

however i must say the reverse isn’t true. i mean people don’t live and let live. they expect certain things. people expect me to do things - like - make an effort to match my socks. Why? they expect me to be conventional and do the things they do. and they say matching socks isnt hard work. WELL THEY’RE WRONG! ITS BLOODY HARD WORK. ( only because the black hole that eats lighters eats socks too ;-)) so i personally don’t bother. i know when not to challenge nature!

but then you get so many questions- and laughs! and its so petty and mundane. why are people bothered if i wear correctly-matched socks or not? they oughtn’t to be.

why indeed? what they seem to encourage on the bbc website are these “Have your say” forums - at the end of a news article - which really seems to be aimed at encouraging the most right-wing, dictatorial and incredibly prejudiced fuck-wits of the world to write in. Now i may be wrong of course, and they just happen to publish whatever anyone writes in - but its not as simple as that - as its moderated - and i’ve tried soo many times to get a comment in - but failed apart from one time. So obviously, whoever the moderator is - decides. fine - but they still jolly well ought to have some proper blogs - like the Guardian does - lots of lovely blogs - where we can all come along and say what we think - and it would be easier to see actually are all the people who comment on those forums a bunch of right-wing nutters or if its just the moderators who like to spice up the reading with a lot of invective.

and if the BBC has got some blogs - well they need to then highlight them clearly to us poor people. i’ve just been searching and searching and all i can find is other people saying much the same thing. now the only thing i’ve just found is something called Ouch! which is part of the BBC site - and has a weblog as part of it. thats great - and they’re looking for guest bloggers - good - but what about BBC news blogs - surely they’d be really popular. just think about the kind of raging debates ( and no doubt some flame wars..he heh) we could have with these psychos that live in the ‘have your say’ forums.

this gets even better. perseverance pays off - found out about the Comedy Blog - but it takes ages to see if they let us post comments or not ( on first sight it appears not to be the case) but again rooting around, i found a page where it says - hey send us your comments - but! it looks unfortunately very much like where they say on those forums - send us your comments and we’ll publish the best - what the fuck is this - some kind of writing competition??? –> ” Thank you for your comments. The BBC reserves the right to modify any messages before appearing on this web page.” not very friendly is it?

i think the BBC needs to wake up and stop thinking old broadcast media and fully embrace the interactive age they go on about. mind you, im not anti-bbc or anything ( if you might think that from the tone of my comments!) its just frustrating when they insist on this old-fashioned monolithic organization -type stuff.

wake up

its virgo time.

I do love my firefox, i have to say. what would i do without tabbed browsing? I can’t remember what i did before, oh well, if you don’t know what you’re missing..