BROWN IS MY SHEPHERD

I have just received this from an anonymous source (thanks Dad), I thought it might amuse:

BROWN IS MY SHEPHERD, I SHALL NOT WORK.

HE LEADETH ME BESIDE STILL FACTORIES.

HE RESTORETH MY FAITH IN THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY.

HE GUIDETH ME TO THE PATH OF UNEMPLOYMENT.

YEA, THOUGH I WAIT FOR MY DOLE,

I OWN THE BANK THAT REFUSES ME.

BROWN HAS ANOINTED MY INCOME WITH TAXES,

MY EXPENSES RUNNETH OVER MY INCOME,

SURELY, POVERTY AND HARD LIVING WILL FOLLOW ME ALL THE DAYS OF HIS TERM.

FROM HENCE FORTH, WE WILL LIVE ALL THE DAYS

OF OUR LIVES IN A RENTED HOME WITH AN OVERSEAS LANDLORD.

I AM GLAD I AM BRITISH, I AM GLAD THAT I AM FREE.

BUT I WISH I WERE A DOG AND BROWN WERE A TREE.

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Quote of the Day

“The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.”

Aneurin Bevan

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Welsh Bloggers in the Pub

Welsh Bloggers Outside the Pub, originally uploaded by Welsh Icons (Dom).

An interesting evening

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Where sheep may safely graze

Where sheep may safely graze, originally uploaded by Welsh Icons (Dom).

Sicknote were playing the White Hart at Caldicot yesterday and I though I might pop along and show my support. It was such a nice day after saying hello to the boys we did a grand tour of Monmouthshire taking photographs for the Welsh Icons site taking in Caldicot, Shirenewton, Chepstow, Penhow, Sedbury, Rogiet among other places.

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Cardiff Bay International Food and Drink Festival

Arfur Daley, originally uploaded by Welsh Icons (Dom).

I was at a bit of a lose end so I went down to the Cardiff Bay International Food and Drink Festival this afternoon. Bumped into Arfur D.

Loads to taste, see and do.

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OPEN LETTER - To the BBC at Glasto

I'm proud to introduce the first of our series of open letters.

This is by Norman Tupwitt and is addressed to the BBC production staff at Glastonbury.

• Sound guys - remember that with today's modern digital effects (24 bit over-sampling etc) you can still make the whole event sound like it is recorded in a public lavatory.
• Vision Mixers - always cut to the pretty girl with the pert breasts, sitting on her boy friend's shoulders mouthing the words to a song she has never heard before when you are at a loss for the next shot
• Camera Men - Especially the one who no one likes with the long zoom, the shot of zooming out from Glastonbury Tor back to the field is a classic
• Presenters - Make sure you have the gamma (colour balance) right. It should be one photogenic whitey and one photogenic darky. It does not matter where you are from but always remember to use a fake regional accent
• Editors - You have at least 30 minutes to edit so why don't you?
• Other Crew - Remember to get your expenses in before the end of the month

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When we were (slightly) younger

I cannot understand the hype about the death of a certain 'pop star' in the last 24 hours. Here in Wales, Question Time (for those outside the UK it is a political panel discussion programme) is about 30 minutes later than the England version. It was interrupted last night to report on the death of a 'pop star'.

I assumed that the Newsflash was reporting at least a terrorist attack or the death of a major Royal. This morning I woke up to reports that certain Internet services had been overloaded and even at only 140 characters per post the mighty Twitter had experienced an outage. After all the publicity about Twitter and democracy in Iran, I find this hard to believe.

The last time I saw a musician's death slow down Internet traffic was the news of the demise of Jerry Garcia (August 9th, 1995). The web was in its infancy and most of us 'nerds' using Usenet were hardcore Dead Heads. How times have changed in just 15 years.

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