HAPPY NEW YEAR

And no, I am not being sarcastic, a new year, new site colours, and a new start (maybe).

It was very quiet here last night, not surprising really, unlike the rest of the world.

Just a quick rundown of some “interesting” news.

Resolutions- I never make them, and now there is proof that you shouldn’t- Resolutions 'bad for your health'.

Now I can be smug for a while.

Gordon Brown trousers is telling us that the New Year will be “tough”.

He is very quick isn’t he?

Russia is threatening to cut off gas supplies to the Ukraine, and would “do it’s best to guarantee supplies to Europe”.

So, if your heating goes off you know whom to blame.

Microsoft, my favourite software conpany (yes it is a deliberate miss-spelling), has cocked up-their software for the Zune, the IPOD look-alike.

Well, there’s a surprise!

Yet another Pillock has come up with a reason for the recession-It’s all our fault for being pessimistic!

On your bike Sir David Tang, and they say I live in another world.

Afghanistan yet another pointless death of a British soldier, He is the 137th British serviceman to die in Afghanistan since the start of operations in October 2001.

GET OUT.

And finally, the Hypocrite of 2008 goes to Gordon Brown-Trousers for his statement-

Brown's new year message hails end of 'free market dogma', because he is the Tosser who decided that the “free market with no regulation” was the future.

I must get on now, I have a “new” laptop and apart from the “qwerty” bit all the other keys are in different places to my old one, and I keep pressing the wrong one and deleting things or shifting into caps. You would think they would come up with a standardised keyboard wouldn’t you?

Angus

SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK

Well not exactly Denmark, but in the Blogosphere. There are cowardly attacks being carried out by a few “people” on other bloggers.

This minority of plonkers is trying to: I don’t know what, to some bloggers.

They leave unsuitable comments on blogs and don’t even have the gonads to identify themselves.

I agree with their right to comment, what I don’t agree with is the manner of commenting, they do not have the right to insult people and hide behind anonymity.

All bloggers upset other people sometimes, I am sure I do, and I don’t mind if people say what they think, as long as I have the right to reply, not to some anonymous tosser but to someone who actually wants to discuss the problem.

This type of attack is the equivalent of ringing someone’s doorbell and running off. It is childish and cowardly.

It will be a sad day in “Blog Land” when we all have to mediate every comment, perhaps that is what these idiots want, to slow down the momentum of bloggers, to make us think twice about raising subjects that make others think.

Or perhaps it is just a few wankers that like to dish it out as long as they don’t have to take it.

Whatever the reasons, it is not acceptable, bloggers must be able to express their views, because freedom of expression is our right, and it should not be restricted because some “people” don’t like it.

I have not been blogging long, but I have found the majority of bloggers to be honest, open and supportive, I have never left unsavoury comments on another blog, I have left anonymous comments mainly because I can never remember my bloody password, but I always try to put my name at the bottom, because it is the proper thing to do.

The blogosphere should be a place of discussion, ideas and unity. We don’t need mindless pillocks trying to disrupt it.

Angus