“Searching! Looking For Love….”
With apologies to Hazel Dean (lord, how badly does that date me?)
Anyway, love appears not to be the object of the quest, but since I implemented MT-Search as part of the redesign at new year, I've had a log of the search terms people are using to find stuff within the site. And all I can say is, that this posting is going to put me in some very odd search results. I've taken out the duplicates, but the following represents the list to date. A month's worth, in other words.
'comics''wibble'
'BSE''Libya'
'DAVE''wibble'
'firefly''barbara'
'clienthastings
'cat grass''email addresses'
'patrick stewart's email address''haberdashery
'tara''amber'
'harry potter''m blissett'
'memoirs of a geisha''sue perkins'
'Joss whedon's e-mail address buffy and angel''letojanni'
'letojani''fray'
'cock''khaleej jobs'
'bridget jones diary''bricker'
'matt''stollar'
'Elijah Wood''gay'
'trans gender''corelli'
'de bernieres''NACHTWEY'
'pitchers''pitchers'
'Sex or something else''carriacou'
'paradise''an officer and a gentleman'
'britain stopped''san remo towers'
'supermarket''show photos'
'lavatera''in passing'
Gilligan
Of the various departures announced by the BBC in the last couple of days, Andrew Gilligan's is the one I find least unreasonable. Regardless of his beliefs on the subject of the information David Kelly provided him with, or any questions of the rightness of single-source reporting, is it just me or has his attitude throughout been entirely arrogant and annoying? Perhaps it's just a defence mechanism, but in the circumstances it looked very much like hubris. I'd certainly think he's more directly responsible for the negativity thrown the BBC's way this week than anyone else who's resigned....
You’ve *Got* To Be Kidding
So Greg Dyke has resigned and the BBC has apologised 'unreservedly'?
Okay, I understand it even if I don't like it. And I know that I'm far from the only one who will continue to have far greater faith in the BBC than I have in this (on indeed any) Government. But seeing the reactions to all these events of Blair and the increasingly oleaginous little clique with which he surrounds himself is beyond bearing.
I reached the point where I turned the news off. And I never do that.
And Speaking Of Treacherous….
Here's one: I'm sorry that I ever voted for your government Mr Blair. You make me ashamed to be a Labour supporter.
Clichés
I tend to try to avoid them, but I'm only human, and occasionally I succumb:
I had to drive this evening, and after the snow finally fell earlier, a lot of it had melted one the roads. But now it's freezing hard, and all the slush is turning to ice. And the roads are, I think I have to say, treacherous.
Accidental
On my way into work this morning I went past the scene of an accident. A motorcycle had come off the road and into the doorway of a shop, putting a dent in some security grilles. By the time I went past, there was no sign of the rider, or even an ambulance, but there was a scary amount of blood still pooled in the doorway.
I went past again at lunchtime and a cyclist had been knocked off his bike in almost the self-same location.
Most disturbing.
Five Votes
With a nominal majority of one hundred and sixty one.
Months after they started debating the issue, and after one of the most protracted and public wrangles since Tony Blair came to power, no matter what you think about the actual issue of tuition fees, I think we all need to note this: That a couple of weeks of apparently random concessions, interventions, and fudges is what was needed to get a Government Bill through its second reading with a nominal majority well into three figures.
Not exactly indicative of a government in control, is it?
Fair Point; Well Presented
"But former Labour minister Kate Hoey questioned how anyone could trust the government to keep this commitment when "we haven't actually kept the manifesto commitment" not to introduce the fees."
A Man Could Get Very Cross….
.... if this didn't turn out to be The Lord Of The Rings' year at The Oscars.
Still, eleven nominations is not bad for a start.
Update now I've perused the whole list - Best Actor: Johnny Depp in "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl"
Oh. My. God.