by ·Comments Off on Not Quite the Right Sort of Fruit

For a long time, I’ve realised that I need to have more fruit in my diet, so my brain registered that I should get an apple.

That’s the only way I can reconcile that my brain has allowed me to get an iPad…

This post has been composed and published whilst I sit on my bed. This is a novelty to me. More than anything else, I didn’t expect it to be so easy to write on the touchscreen keyboard thing. Admittedly, I wouldn’t want to write a novel on this thing, but it’s not bad at all.

I’m not a fan of apple, I’m not one of those fundamentalist Steve Jobs followers, and I abhor iTunes…..but my goodness, this is marvellous!

by ·Comments Off on Quick Comment: ID cards and Facebook

 One of the first things that the new government in the UK have done is announce that they are scrapping the contentious ID card scheme that the old-new-labour government was trying to push for some unknown reason.

 This is great news:  The removal of a money sink that nobody really wanted and would not only be an infringement on civil liberties but would not work in the way that they wanted it to.

 A thought crossed my mind though, and maybe this just shows that I’m behind the curve, but maybe the reason they scrapped the scheme wasn’t to save money or to protect civil liberties, but just because the whole thing is entirely redundant with the popularity of Facebook.

Why spend time and money issuing everyone with an ID card and enforcing their constant possession of said item when people are quite happy to spend hours and hours of their spare time updating their own ID card in the form of their Facebook profile, including pictures of where they’ve gone on holiday and where they go out with friends, who they are associated with, what their world views are, dates of when they leave the country and return and in a lot of cases, actual physical addresses?

Private detectives have never had it so easy!

by ·Comments Off on Time Travel the Wrong Way

That last choose your own adventure style post was a little self deprecating, slightly exaggerated and probably made me come off like a pathetic alcoholic, which just isn’t true.  I’m not an alcoholic.

However, the point that’s there is that time very quickly slips away without you noticing it.  I suppose my only real comparison that I can make is school life contrasting with working life  (University doesn’t count.  I had very few contact hours which meant the time could be divided between time spent awake and time spent asleep, but the hours with which each were happening were not consistent).  Whereas I get home from work most days around 5:30, during my time at school, I could have been home for an hour and a half by that point.  With this in mind, it’s clear that I already have less time in the evenings.

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by ·Comments Off on But Wait, Where’s My Update?

Considering I’ve spent a fair amount of time tinkering again today, I’m a little perplexed as to where the actual post is for this evening.  It’s at this point that I realise I didn’t write anything today and have instead just messed around with code (as well as de-grease an oven and launch a polar expedition into the freezer) and make some very small, yet significant to me, changes to this site.

I still need to alter a few things.  A bit more space between lines of text would be quite nice, and maybe a slightly larger font wouldn’t go amiss either.  Details, details.

by ·Comments Off on Fussy Blog

This little WordPress experiment ate a morning and spat some of it back out again in the process.

What we have learnt today:
The Chaotic Tortoise does not like widgets.
The Chaotic Tortoise is somewhat undecided on plugins.
The Chaotic Tortoise feasts on time.