I’ve decided to give my business, Whym Web Design, a blog of it’s own to post tutorials and articles on a range of topics like SEO, web design, hosting and online marketing. It’s still a fairly experimental idea, but hopefully it’ll take off and become a success.
Unfortunately, it means I might not post very often on this blog anymore as my time is already divided between college, work and other things and I don’t seem to find any time anymore to post very much. When I do post, I’ll save this blog for more general tech posts rather than actual articles.
Can this really be true? Well I’ve just listened to the recording myself on the BBC’s iPlayer service and it is genuine. It is strange that a man who declared “we’re bigger than Jesus” and “Imagine a world without religion” believes strongly in Christ’s teachings and even said that the Beatles were essentially a Christian band trying to push a Christian message.
Of course, this is somewhat watered down Christianity. While Lennon obviously admires Jesus’ teachings, he doesn’t say anything about accepting Him as a personal saviour and also said he follows Mohammed and Buddha. It’s certainly reassuring that Lennon admits he’s not against God but against the hypocrisy in the Church: “…the hat wearing and the tea parties…”.
I feel a bit daft now, given my rant about Lennon here!
I was randomly surfing YouTube today when I came across a new form of music - produced by computer hardware. Of course, computers have played a central part in modern music for some time now, but never before has “electronic music” been taken so literally:
This is somewhat of a conspiracy, but it is truly strange that on June 6th 2006 (06/06/06), George Bush announced a plan for a biometrics system to be implemented in the USA to track all immigrants.
666 (Greek passages read 616) is supposed to be the “Mark of the Beast” or the “Number of the Beast”, mentioned in Revelation 13. The passage:
““And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”
Revelation 13:16-18″
In general, I’m not one for conspiracies. However, surely it’s a bit strange that on 06.06.06., George Bush gives a speech about immigrants and ID cards, including mentioning biometrics:
“What really Congress needs to do is to use a biometric technology to create a new tamper-proof identification card for every legal foreign worker,” he said. “We need a tamper-proof card. If you’re here legally working, here’s your card, and you got to show it. And a business owner has got to call for it, and if they hire somebody without the tamper-proof card, they’re in violation of the law and will be fined.” (Taken from New York Times article).
YouTube also had a video of Bush announcing this plan:
Perhaps this is just a massive coincidence, but it’s interesting at least. On a date some associated with the Antichrist and the Mark of the Beast, Bush talks about bringing in a new ID system for immigrants, meaning they won’t be able to work without having ID on them. ID cards are becoming more popular, with governments assessing whether or not to implement them on a national scale so that we are all watched. Some have even suggested chip implants into our arms or other areas of the body so that we can be scanned and our identity validated. Who knows? Perhaps one day, we will have chip implants in our right hands or even implants into our brains (a suggestion made not long ago on a BBC documentary). Is this passage coming true today?
Well finally, Clinton (or at least her campaign) have admitted defeat and thrown in the towel. The long hard battle to become Democratic Candidate is over and Obama has clinched it. The next thing on Obama’s list is probably picking his running mate - his Vice President if he ends up winning.
Personally, I think picking Clinton for this would be a bad idea. An online petitionкомпютри втора употреба calling for Obama to make her his Vice President in the campaign has started and there is definitely plenty of support for this. However, would Obama want to pick a candidate who could possibly overshadow him in the campaign or at least prove as popular as himself? What about all of the comments that have passed between them? (Remember: “shame on you Barack Obama…”).
It would make sense for Obama to pick a candidate who reaches out to groups of people where he isn’t very popular himself - typical Blue Collar workers and Latinos for example. Clinton is strong in these areas. But at what cost? The Clinton crowd and the Obama crowd are quite different and after such a bitterly divisive campaign, would they, or could they, just “kiss and make up”? I don’t think so. In my opinion, Obama should pick a candidate who is popular with Latinos and Blue Collar workers in a similar way to Clinton is, but that it shouldn’t be Clinton herself.
It seems like the race to be Democratic candidate is now over - Obama is still gaining ground on Clinton and every day, more super delegates rally behind him. The chances of Clinton winning are almost impossible now - the focus moves from the Democrats to the overall Presidential race.
Below is a video I found of McCain blatantly lying to news reporters on a number of topics - is this who we really want to be US President?
First of all, I apologise for neglecting my blog recently. College has been particularly busy recently; I’ve been trying to get fitter (weight lifting, walking etc.) and I’ve been working on several projects recently too. Consequently, I haven’t been able to post very much on here at all or surf the forums as much as I’d like to - hopefully, I’ll be able to find a bit more time soon to start again.
On to the main topic of the post - the 1-laptop-per-child project has announced that it will be running Windows XP on it’s laptops side-by-side with Linux. The project was set up to give children in developing countries the chance to learn I.T. and enhance their skills and knowledge. Previously, a special light weight version of Linux was planned to be the only OS (Operating System) as it is free and open source, making it ideal for educational purposes on a budget laptop. Read the rest of this entry »
As some people will know, I’m a moderator at Webmaster-Talk, a comprehensive webmaster forum. Recently, Earners Forum, an online community for individuals who were earning money online, merged with Webmaster-Talk. The merge will mean new content for Webmaster-Talk, lots of new members and masses of new expertise that we didn’t have before.
The forum has now opened a celebratory contest with prizes including a Macbook Air, iPod touch and a Nintendo DS. 5 lucky winners will get these prizes by collecting the most points - you get 10 for just signing up, 2 per post and an incredible 200 for submitting articles.
The contest will be open for another 32 days, after which 5 winners will be announced. Good luck!
I found a few fonejacker videos on YouTube and ever since, I’ve been fairly hooked. The guy basically prank calls random people and speaks nonsense to them until they slam the phone down (well most of them do anyway).
Until now, I was fairly undecided about wind farm technology and whether it was worthwhile given the large lobby against all wind farm development. This however has all changed since a planning application was submitted to build a wind farm fairly near to my home.
In the past, I largely agreed that wind farms, particularly on-shore ones, were an eye-sore, were unreliable with electricity generating times (i.e. when the wind doesn’t blow, there’s no power being generated) and that they were noisy.
However, an application has been submitted to my local council to build a wind farm at Reeves Hill. I was tempted to go down the typical “not in my back yard” route but instead stepped back and looked at the situation for what it is: Read the rest of this entry »
