Freedom of Speech

You know what really grinds my gears? People who think that they can take away a persons basic human rights just because they have a rather controversial view of things.



Wankers.

Malware

Malware is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent. It is a portmanteau of the words "malicious" and "software". The expression is a general term used by computer professionals to mean a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software or program code.

Earlier today I got struck by malware. Damn smart malware at that. It passed through my avast! virus scanner without as much as a squeak, then proceeded to attack my registry for a whole 10 minutes - causing Spybot S&D to spout out an error message every time the bug struck. What's more the clever bugger actually deleted itself and left the registry attacker on somewhere in the nether regions of my PC.

That's why people should all get a Mac.

After I just switched the computer off, just to see if the S&D errors stopped somehow, my computer then proceeded to stop working. A whole half hour of watching my faux Apple loading screen being followed by the black screen of death. I just screwed around with the BIOS settings and rebooted it until it could actually reach the login screen. Which it eventually did. But now, to be overly safe, I've abandoned that account. Luckily I had already set up another account for just such an occasion. So I can quite happily access all my files and programs from my malware-d username, without ever having to use it.

Oh happy days.

But seriously. What exactly is the point in malware? The people who make it don't exactly earn anything off it (apart from adware and keyloggers, etc) but viruses and programs that are just made to stop your computer working - What are they for? All they ever do is inconvenience people. It's just stupidly non-sensical.

*gets his gun*

Bye Bye Blair

May 1st, 1997. Tony Charles Lynton Blair becomes the youngest British prime minister in history.

May 1st, 2007. Tony Charles Lynton Blair announces his departure from office, as one of the most controversial political figures of the modern age.

Yes. Today, at a rally for the upcoming local elections, Mister Blair announced that he would be handing over power to Chancellor Gordon Brown "in the next few weeks."

...About time too. Although Tony does make a great fool for jokes (What's 12 inches long and hangs off an arsehole? Tony Blair's tie) you can only get so much humour out of one man and his cabinet. I think it's time we brought in some new meat. David Cameron is already depicted as a pompous buffoon with a posh accent. And "Mighty" Ming Campbell is, well, dead - or at least scarily removed from what many would call 'real life.'

Cameron has also been criticized on a regular basis for being "too Tony Blair" and a few handfuls of Conservatives are hating the fact he's changing things too much. However he isn't too Tony now is he. He rides a bike to work for one. And it also seems to despise the number one man, he said today:

"Tony Blair's time as prime minister started with great hope but has ended with disappointment.

"It is clear that he has done some good things like making the Bank of England independent.

"But 10 years ago he promised '24 hours to save the NHS'.

"Today, community hospitals face closure, the NHS faces more job losses than ever, maternity units are under threat, it is difficult to find an NHS dentist, and junior doctors are being treated appallingly."

He does have a point. Blair's failures far outweigh his successes.

Just a few more weeks people. A few more weeks and Blair (with Prescott in tow) will be dragging their cases from Downing Street for the last time. Gordon Brown will take power, only to find that Blair acted like the drug taking, rock out youth he once was for a laugh. And Brown will find gun and graffiti ("Blair 4eva!") spray painted round the walls of the PM's office.

Good times, eh?