Archive for June, 2009
America revisited
Grandad June 19th, 2009
I used to have great fun slagging off the Americans.
Let’s face it – they deserved it. They kept electing that dumb fuck Dubya into office and the world watched in horror and amusement as he lurched from one crisis to another.
They have become very quiet of late.
There have been quite a few occasions where I wondered how Dubya would have reacted. He probably would have started a war or two in Iran by now, and would doubtless have tried to nuke North Korea. His answer to the American automotive crisis would doubtless have been to nuke Japan into the bargain.
Overall, the majority of people who visit here are American. Yup. More Americans than Irish. If you want to be pedantic, 34.9% of visitors are from Bar Strangled Banner-land, and 33.4% are from the Auld Sod.
I’m not sure why so many Americans visit. I know during the Dubya Era they were looking for The Voice of Sanity, but they spoiled it all by getting rid of him, and electing someone with marbles. But why do they still visit? I suppose a lot of them think that Ireland is a small state in the US somewhere west of Oregon [Americans are well known for their knowledge of world geography] and a lot of them aren’t aware that you can remove bookmarks in your browser, but I still get comments from Americans. Why?
Don’t get me wrong. I like Americans. They make easy targets, both with humour and with a Glock. I like it when they comment even if I sometimes don’t understand them.
Do they like being abused?
Is that why they kept electing Dubya?
It’s one of the great mysteries of life.
Freedom of Information
Grandad June 18th, 2009
For a long time, the people of Ireland have been complaining about the level of secrecy in government and big business.
They introduced the Freedom of Information Act, but that is a tedious way of gaining information, and you have to know exactly what you are looking for.
I am delighted therefore to see that there has been a change of heart.
Not only are the government and Big Business making information available, they are actually giving it away.
They started at the weekend, when our illustrious HSE [the Death Squad that runs our health service] gave away fifteen laptops containing information on people who have approached community welfare officers seeking assistance. I think that is very fair of them. It is only right that we should all know who is looking for assistance, and why.
Unfortunately, in a massive cock-up, on a scale which only the HSE can achieve, some twat had encrypted fourteen of the laptops, thus rendering the information useless. There are rumours abounding that they are about to make the encryption keys available, to rectify this mistake.
Yesterday, Bord Gáis showed the HSE how it should be done.
They released a laptop containing 75,000 customers’ banking details, and being far more efficient, they left the laptop unencrypted.
Again, the rumour mill has gone into overdrive and there is a strong possibility that the ESB in a counter-strike is going to publish all their customers banking details in the national papers.
In times of recession it is only right that we should have the freedom to spend. It is, in fact our civic duty to spend as much as possible in order to get the economy back on its feet. To this end, these account details are being circulated in order that we have sufficient funds to boost trade.
Maybe they are not as stupid as I thought?
A cabal in our midst
Grandad June 17th, 2009
So our cosy cabal have done it again.
Our esteemed government have found that they can’t stop their pensions ‘for legal reasons’.
Here we have a shower of incompetents who for their own ends have screwed this country left right and centre, until it is on the verge of bankruptcy, and who still insist on paying themselves pensions while still in office and drawing a salary.
My old friend Bertie, who has enough questions hanging over his past to fuel an entire series of “Who wants to be a millionaire” is happily sitting there in the Dáil, doing fuck all and drawing a pension on top of his salary. And how much is that pension? A mere €111,235.
I would be happy to be drawing a pension of €111,235. In fact, I would be happy to be drawing a pension based on a salary of €111,235. But no. I am a mere pleb and must make do with what I have.
Isn’t it amazing how laws can be changed overnight if the government so wishes? Isn’t also amazing how laws suddenly appear out of the woodwork when there is a threat to the cabal’s income? Isn’t is amazing how those laws can’t be changed overnight?
So Lenihan is reducing those pensions by 25%.
BIG FUCKING DEAL.
Why not 100%, or even 50%?
Because the Attorney General says the ‘may be legal issues’.
Bollox.
Having had the greatest arse kicking in the history of the state, they still carry on feathering their own nests.
-oOo-
Incidentally, I found the following in Wikipedia -
A cabal is a number of people united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in a church, state, or other community, often by intrigue. Cabals are sometimes secret societies composed of a few designing persons, and at other times are manifestations of emergent behaviour in society or governance on the part of a community of persons who have well established public affiliation or kinship. The term can also be used to refer to the designs of such persons or to the practical consequences of their emergent behaviour, and also holds a general meaning of intrigue and conspiracy.
I think it sums up that gang of bastards in the government very nicely?
Firing Firefox
Grandad June 16th, 2009
I was happily browsing away yesterday visiting my usual porn anarchist highbrow web sites, when my Firefox browser decided it had had enough and needed a rest.
I got a little message on the screen saying that Firefox had closed to prevent damage to my computer.
Being the philosophical type, I just fired it up again.
I got a little message on the screen telling me that Firefox failed to load and would I like to inform the honchos so that they can broaden their minds a bit. I said yes, and shut it down.
I fired up Firefox again, and once more it failed to load. This was getting irritating at this stage. I tried several times, and each time it fucked up on me.
I tried loading it in Safe Mode, whatever the hell that is, and it still failed. By now, it was really getting on my tits.
I decided to fire up that abominable heap of shite called Internet Explorer and get a new version of Firefox.
I loaded that and everything went well, until I tried to fire up Firefox.
The fucking thing failed again.
This was really pissing me off at this stage, so I uninstalled Firefox, and reinstalled it. It still failed. Fuck!
I decided to uninstall it again, only this time, I told it to remove all traces of itself. Being a smart sort of chap though, I backed up my bookmarks and my profile before doing that. I reinstalled it, and it worked perfectly.
Great. At last I am getting somewhere. All I had to do then was restore my bookmarks and my profile and everything would be hunky dory.
I did my bookmarks first and had a look at them.
Bollox!! I had backed up the wrong version, even though the date on it was yesterday’s date. I could live with that though.
I went to restore my profile, only to find that fucking Firefox had deleted my old one and the backup. Damn, blast, bother, knickers and spit!
My profile contained quite a few things. It had all my little plug ins, my settings and gizmos like that, but it also contained all my stored passwords.
Now I can’t access a load of my sites.
I have written to Chang Li Sung in China and Vladimir Gradsky in Russia, both of whom I know have been ripping off my passwords for months, but I haven’t heard back from them yet.
I’m screwed now.
I wonder if Nympho Nancy will miss my daily visit?
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