Percentage of vote Seats earned Seats handed out Labour 35.20% 227 356 Conservative 32.30% 209 197 Liberal Democrats 22.00% 142 62 Others 10.50% 68 31 100.00% 646 646 So, by and large, we didn’t vote New Labour. Bit of a mystery how we ended up with them in Government really, considering how few […]
Delightfully barmy
The Register reports:- “If you send commercial data by email or over the Web, it’s liable for VAT (17.5 per cent value-added tax, imposed in the UK on services) on the value of the data. Which of course with commercial data can be quite high. But if you print that same data out and send […]
Emanuel Kant was a real…
You scored as Existentialism. Your life is guided by the concept of Existentialism: You choose the meaning and purpose of your life. “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” “It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.” –Jean-Paul Sartre “It is […]
Warning of school 'parent power'
A head teachers’ leader has warned of the danger of giving “irresponsible parents” power in schools. It would seem people are not doing as they are told.
One of those moments
“Daddy what does “virgin” mean?” Heart stops Pause while go talk to mummy option dismissed Contextual questions …. “VERSION” (thank God for that)…..
You know, I think it might be rigged.
I have been playing with an election forecasting calculator thingy. http://www.netcoms.com/election2005/election_predictor.asp This one (Ed: site now defunct), the BBC have one which yields very similar results. I poked in some numbers….. Let’s say New labour, Conservatives and the Lib Dems all got the same number of votes and the rest got the same number they […]
Yahoo ID Theft – the thick plottens
Update on Yahoo, I particularly like the last line of their message “New and Improved Yahoo! Mail – better than ever!” But I have written and asked if they are just wasting my time or are admitting that their staff did rip off the account. Amazing that they have to have my email address sent […]
Look, I have got a personality!
Advanced Global Personality Test Results Extraversion |||||||||||||| 56% Stability |||||||||||||| 60% Orderliness |||||||||||| 46% Empathy |||||||||| 36% Interdependence |||||||||| 36% Intellectual |||||||||||||||||| 76% Mystical |||||||||| 36% Artistic |||||||||||||||| 63% Religious |||||||||||| 50% Hedonism |||||||||||| 50% Materialism |||||||||||||||||| 76% Narcissism |||||||||||||||| 70% Adventurousness |||||||||||||||| 70% Work ethic |||||||||||||| 56% Self absorbed |||||||||||||||| 63% Conflict seeking |||||||||||||| […]
Yahoo ID Theft
Sent today to Yahoo! “A member of your staff has stolen the Yahoo user id marchant@yahoo.com which I have used since 1997. Firstly if you you are going to steal ids back for your staff to use it would be polite to tell people, not just lock people out without warning. Secondly, I am concerned […]
Singing
Big is getting ready for bed and singing, “Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone.” Hmmm.