foolfillment: the blog

The time has come to announce my plans for the summer, not really been mentioned here for one reason or another but I suppose I have to now because if I don’t this page will look pretty stagnant when I return in about 2 months time.

Tonight I’m off to help brother-in-exile move house then I’m back up to Glasgow tomorrow then down south again on Saturday to Hereford for about three weeks, hopefully working, then over to Paris with the good lady friend where we’ll be roaming around for about a month. Some walking in the Black Forest, Germany; on towards Prague then back the way we came, through Munich to the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland. After that we go back through France to do some windsurfing and then along a bit further to Spain for the Festival Internacional de Benicassim. At then end of all that we make our way back up through France again to get a plane back home.

See you in August!

Last month they charged me for things they said they wouldn’t. I shouted at them and they said this month I’d be credited with the amount they took.

This month comes and they send me a bill, not only was the credit missing but they want to charge me again for things that they said they wouldn’t.

So I send an email asking what they’re playing at and get a very quick response saying that I have to pay. I send them a copy of an email from them last month that says I don’t and they’ve gone very quiet. Now I’ve also posted off an official complaint letter to them and arranged a new deal with Orange. I still have about a month to run on my contract with O₂ but seeing as they’ve broken their terms then am I able to break it off early?

A little late to suggest it but a particularly good way to spend a Saturday in June was watching Belle and Sebastian and friends at the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow yesterday. They were in fine form on a glorious day which saw me and many others end up with an interesting sunburn. Notable moments included

• Monica Queen turning up to perform Lazy Line Painter Jane
• Poor Mick Cooke playing a transparent guitar, as if he wasn’t looking uncomfortable enough on stage already!
• the dancing woman in the purple top during the support acts
• Stuart Murdoch forgetting the words all the way through The Model

So that was yesterday, not a sign of Euro 2004 in sight sadly but I’ll make up for that today along with more angry letters to O₂ and ordering a new Orange phone

The SPL is facing a potential charge of bringing the game into disrepute for its shambolic handling of the promotion - relegation issue.

Individuals and clubs have been punished using the SFA’s powers and Peat [George Peat, chairman of the SFA's General Purposes Committee] insists it would be possible to do the same to the SPL.

Source : BBC SPORT | SPL faces disrepute charge

I think the SPL should get some sort of reprimand for the fankle they’ve got themselves into. Clyde have the right idea proposing the league be expanded to a 14 or 16 team competition, even if their primary reasons are purley selfish.

that’s what the BNP seem to be claiming.

Dr Phil Edwards, BNP press officer on the letter from the Muslim Council of Britain that urges Muslims to turn out and vote in the local and European elections:

“They are threatening the democratic process by trying to influence people to vote against a party”

Source : BBC News

If, for argument’s sake, I were to urge teachers and nurses to vote Labour because they traditionally spend more money on public services than the Conservatives, then presumably by the BNP’s logic I would be undermining democracy, wouldn’t I? In fact every time Tony Blair says ‘Vote Labour’, or Michael Howard says ‘Vote Tory’, or any other politician asks people to vote for them, then they are undermining democracy. Aren’t they?

Or maybe the BNP are a bunch of facists who should be locked up, or even better deported from the country, maybe to Guantanamo Bay.

As it’s summer I though it was a good idea to give foolfillment a new summer dress, and why not change CMS while I’m at it I thought. I didn’t actually, it was more the other way around. It’s not perfect but there will be tweaks made as time progresses, hopefully the recent comments will return to how they used to look under MT, but so far I like WordPress. So, what do you think? Please let me know of any bugs/likes/dislikes/wants…

Issues I want to fix include but aren’t limited to:

• I want to change the recent comments list
• I want to change the headings in the menu
• I want to get buttons to input code in the comments again
• stop showing blogsnob?
• generate/find new buttons for a few things in the menu

FIB

and a very nice man too, always has a hello for you.

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