I've never been much of a personal journaler. But, I thought, about time I started to make a bit of an on-line representation of myself.

I'll probably just fill this space up with random ravings about things that annoy me or maybe about politicians that make me laugh! Whatever, I'm sure it'll be worthwhile. Possibly. Maybe...

Said this on irc this morning, but thought I'd repeat for others (and am currently newbie-keen on LJ, it won't last): "Why do people insist on obfuscating textual content inside stupid flash applications?"

It really annoys me! This site <http://www.fasterthansound.com/> is just ridiculous. Its content consists of lots of informative text and a few nice/relevant images. So why oh why is it a Flash site? Why?! Its just pointless and stupid. Why do people do it?

If you want to publish text and images on the Web, use HTML. Thats what its for. I mean, urghh!

I'm glad to discover that I'm not alone: http://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/?2005/09/06/287-why-i-hate-flash

Flash is evil and stupid. Get rid of it.

OK, still a bit newbie-keen.

So, Dai Davies won the Blaenau Gwent seat last night. Well done, an' all. But what was that victory speech all about?

"Political parties take note. You take people for granted at your peril. It's the people that matter, not the political parties.

"The dinosaurs thought they would live for ever - they died out. Political parties take note and listen to the people or you're in trouble." [_]

Did the dinosaurs think that they would live forever? I doubt it very much. Surely dinosaurs had no sense of their own mortality, nevermind im_mortality. Surely they didn't think of themselves of a master race. In fact, they probably barely thought_ at all.

Anyway, my sincerest commiserations to Alan Hope, Official Monster Raving Loony Party. Just 318 votes. Better luck next time, eh?