Archive for Politics

Political Party Spam (Represent Party)

by: WanderingTechy April 3, 2010

I just received a spam email from representparty.org.  Now I have never used the email address they used to sign up for any service so I am wondering

Where did they get the email address from?
Who advised them that sending spam is a way to make friends?
Who is advising them on their internet policy as google [...]

Mandleson looks like…..

by: WanderingTechy August 21, 2009

In Mock the week they showed a picture of the Lord of Darkness,  Not Ozzy.  But Peter Mandleson.
Who do you think he looks like (after the break)

Things Move On.

by: WanderingTechy February 22, 2009

Sometimes things move on and technology tramples on you. It’s not that technology doesn’t care, by its very nature it can’t. In some situations the use of technology is so positive that the consequences are not even considered.
This picture sums it all up for me unfortunately.

This one image represents a whole rant [...]

We’ve had Bushisms now we have Brownisms

by: WanderingTechy February 8, 2009

I am sure we all have our favorite Bushisms and favorite video clips where Bush pulled a Boner. El Gordo does seem to want to keep up with him now though. With Bush giving us classic lines such as “The problem with the French is that they have no word for Entrepeneur” you [...]

Keeping email logs for a year part 2

by: WanderingTechy January 25, 2009

Ok, we are only two months away now from having to keep all email logs for a year. Having thought about this some more it going to not only prove to be expensive for ISP’s it is going to slow down investigations, and inevitably prove totally pointless.
Pointless?
If I were a terrorist would I use a [...]

Give politicians longer holidays please

by: WanderingTechy January 24, 2009

My 5 ways to improve politics in this country

Nice simple one this. Give them more holidays so they spend less time in parliament screwing the country up
For every Law that is made 2 must be repealed for the next 10 years
For major issues, for example the Heathrow runway and ID cards there [...]

Holy Crap – We need to keep all email logs for a year

by: WanderingTechy January 10, 2009

Government requires ISP’s to keep a record of all Email passing through its network for a year.

El Gordo and the New VAT Rate

by: WanderingTechy December 2, 2008

I am informed that El Gordo is Spanish for the Big One. As in the lottery. It can also be used as a derogatory term for a Fat Man.
Anyway El Gordo announced last week that he was reducing the VAT rate to 15% from 17.5%. He gave business’s just a single week to [...]

How Our Tax System Works (A humorous explanation)

by: WanderingTechy October 25, 2008

Ten Men go out for a beer. Tax Explained