Well I am scared for the future generations of the UK.

I watched a bit of 'Top of the Pops' on Friday night and at number two in the charts was a song called Fast Food Rockers - Fast Food Song , never have I heard such shocking, loathsome, appalling crap as this.

This is one of the strongest reasons I know for not allowing any person under the age of 21 to be allowed to buy records, they should be strictly controlled, only allowed to listen to beatles, rolling stones, stone roses, floyd, zepplin and old skool hip hop. Only when they are old enough to sort it out and stop the corporations producing this sort of brain melting pap, should they be allowed to buy records. If you are the producer of this song you should be ashamed of yourself, you are following a long line of arse holes who made tracks such as agadoo, star trekin, the lion sleeps tonight or anything by westlife (you little irish gits play with satan and you know it).

Why don't we all try to make real music, lets think about it as an art form, a method in which to express yourself as apposed to just a job where you can make money from little kids who don't know any better.

Parents you can also help, if your kid is buying complete trash then you should ground them, stop their pocket money, burn their records and only allow them to listen to Abbey Road until they see the error of their ways.

Rusedski fined for outburst

Well I had to laugh, firstly you had one of the funniest case's of swearing on afternoon telly I have seen for a good long time, you had Greg absolutely lose the plot and get himself used as a floor wipe and best of all the commentator for the BBC, John McEnroe!!!!! Brilliant, GENIUS!!!! My conclusion, there is a god, he definitely smokes pot and enjoys watching sports on the telly

Well you gotta feel for Vicente Del Bosque (BBC Article - Real ditch Del Bosque) the ex-Real Madrid manager in four years at the club has won

2 European Cups
2 Spanish league titles
1 European Super Cup
1 World Club Cup

So you are one of the most succesfull managers ever and you win the La Liga for the second time, are you really expecting to get the sack 48 hours after the title. Madness

Happy Birthday Janine!!!

Stupid White Men - Bowling for Columbine - Michael Moore

Just finished reading 'Stupid White Men' and watched 'Bowling for Columbine' last night. OH MY GOD!!!!!! SCARY!!!!!! I am worried about the most powerful country in the world.

The book is brilliant and as Moore gets more and more irate he gets funnier and funnier. The book contains chapters on every part of American society including how Bush is a dirty lying cheat who only became president because he rigged the ballot in Florida (his brother Jeb Bush is Governor of Florida) and generally how much corporate America now sits in the White House. The Times newspaper gave it a bit of a grilling the other day in an article but you do have to understand that the paper is owned by the ultra right fascist Rupert Murdoch.

'Bowling for Columbine' is about the States gun culture with absolute idiots like the National Rifle Associations president Charlton Heston going on about how guns are OK, the only good thing you have to remember is Charlton is old and will hopefully die very soon. What has really surprised me is the lack of understanding by some people in the States that the proportion of shootings in that country is a direct result of there being half a billion guns in the country.

I am however not trying to say that all Americans are thick as that is also complete rubbish, I have worked with people form the States and they still produce the cream of the worlds scientists, I think however that if you only get media which is so biased sooner or later you are obviously going to believe some of it. This article from the Philadelphia Inquirer shows how a good proportion of Americans think that Weapons of Mass Destruction have been found in Iraq and that most of the terrorists involved in the 9/11 tragedy were also Iraqi's .

Friday Funny

While driving to the office this morning on the M1, I looked over to my left and there was a woman in a brand new VW beetle doing 70 mph with her face up next to her rear view mirror putting on her eyeliner.

I looked away for a couple seconds and when I looked back she was halfway over in my lane, still working on that makeup. As a man, I don't scare easily. But she scared me so much; I dropped my shaver, which knocked the doughnut out of my other hand. In all the confusion of trying to straighten out the car using my knees against the steering wheel, it knocked my mobile phone away from my ear which fell into the coffee between my legs, splashed, and burned Big Jim and the Twins, ruined the damn phone, soaked my trousers, and disconnected an important call.

Damn women drivers!!

The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi - buy it

What a mental book, well worth reading as it is only 140 odd pocket book pages. Bushi Musashi (bushi meaning armed gentry which the samurai liked to call themselves) lived in the beginning of the seventeenth century in the founding era of the third Tent Government and was a masterless samurai pursuing a career as a dueller and a independent teacher of martial arts.

To understand Japanese culture at this time you have to understand that the imperial government (Shoguns) never ruled the whole of Japan and the way of war was open to anyone who could obtain arms. As lower class samurai rose up to overthrow the upper class samurai it eventually reached a peaceful equilibrium around the age of the third Tent Government and at this time Miyamoto decided to write down his thoughts on the art of war focussing attention on the physcology and the physics of lethal assaults and decisive victories as the essence of combat

Excerpt from The Water Scroll: State of Mind in Martial Arts

Let your inner mind be unclouded and open, placing your intellect on a broad plane. It is essential to polish the intellect and mind diligently. Once you have sharpened your intellect to the point where you can see whatever in the world is true or not, where you can tell whatever is good or bad, and when you are experienced in various fields and are incapable of being fooled at all by people of the world, then your mind will become imbued with the knowledge and the wisdom of the art of war.

Well done Beckham £120K a week should keep the baby in shoes for a while, but is it only me that has thought that Real Madrid already has someone on the right wing a player by the name of Figo, and I don't think Beckham is getting on instead of Figo. So are they going to shove a right footed player on the left wing. Surely somebody must have told them about the current England problems (well Sven apart from Gareth Barry you Swedish idiot).

'Just cos you feel it, doesn't mean it's there'
from the song 'There There'
by Radiohead
from the album 'Hail to the Thief'

Greater protection for whales agreed

Well it sounds good but unfortunately the one nation that needs to take notice of this 'Berlin Initiative' is Japan and they are the ones that are talking about leaving the International Whaling Commission (IWC). I have read up a bit about this and I mean they already use a loop hole that allows them to kill 440 whales a year for research and then sell them to the Japanese market for food after this 'research' but I also read they are trying to say we should remove more whales as one report from the Institute of Cetacean Research, Japan says the whales and dolphins are eating all the fish stocks and not man. I didn't realise those bastard whales are using 2000 ton fishing trawlers like us!!!! We should shoot all the sea birds as well, cause I heard they eat fish too!!!

Last Thursday and Friday went on a Microsoft Access course at SkillSolve and although it was alright I still needed to look up some stuff from the web to get my head round relationships between tables. I found some useful Access sites

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Owen inspires England

To be honest as it was a qualifier it makes no difference if it was a good performance or not, we just needed the three points and I thought Stevey Gerrard was absolutely superb again. If you actually watched the game, like if you saw a lot of the games recently you will see as soon as Darius comes on all off a sudden we look good although he doesn't seem to do all that much (well apart from score against Turkey). Please do that for the VIlla Darius!!!!

Rover heads to Red Planet

Well the Spirit rover was launched yesterday aiming to be at the Gusev Crater on Mars either this year or early next. Opportunity rover will be launched around the 25th of this month and is destined for a site called Meridiani Planum. The race is on with the european craft already a million km from Earth. BBC have a section on their website called 'The Race To Mars' which is interesting

I would like to try and set a scene for you, last night after Kung Fu I got back home to watch the end of a drama on BBC1 called 'Spooks'.

This program is about the MI5 and this particular episode was set around a Birmingham Mosque where a Muslim agent had to infiltrate this place of worship to see if the reports of potential suicide bombers were true. I had walked in at a very tense moment were the agent had managed to move the young suicide bomber away from a built up area to a desolate playground in order to plead with him to reconsider this foolish act. In this electric scene he held back the MI5 agents so that he could talk to this frightened youth and explained to him that this is not what Allah wanted. He urged that paradise could only truly be obtained by the good that was done here and now and that this act of aggression would not solve anything, he pleaded to him that we were all free to make decisions and that this would be his greatest.

Then the writers/producers decided to completely smash apart this tension and intrigue in order to blatantly take the piss out of the Villa (are the writers shity fans?). The Algerian agent then noticed the boys shirt under his explosives and in a more joking manner asked him whether he was a Villa fan (impressive, very impressive, spotting four-five year old away strip) and was it really worth blowing himself up for that. At that moment the boy blew himself and the agent up. What the bloody hell is that all about BBC, you know how to kick someone when they are down!!

OK, for tonight's BBC telly, a documentary of 'The Priory' talking about Tony Adams clinic helping footballers to fight their drinking, drugs and gambling addictions and the two case studies they are using, yes you guessed it, two ex-Villa players, Paul Merson and Paul McGrath (god, god, god, god). What will happen on Thursday will it be a hour long episode, 'Twenty Reasons Why Villa are so Rubbish''

SUPRISE SUPRISE - UK rules out euro entry for now

Well it's €-day today and as we all know in this country, there is about as much chance of us joining the Euro as I have of becoming a jar of marmalade.

I am a pro-European, meaning that although I appreciate the number of problems which will arise if we leave taxation and interest rates to Brussels, I am an idealist and believe in the long run we should be One Europe, One World.

OK this is where it becomes really annoying, I would like to debate with people who are anti Europe to get a better all round view point on whether it is a good thing or not, but this is pointless as most of them are against the Euro because they think overnight everyone will lose our national identity, we will all start drinking red wine and eating bratwurst and they don't want to lose the pound, they want to eat British beef and generally like the bulldog spirit. All reasonable people with maybe more than the national average two brain cells realise that the UK and it's future generations will still be a product of our environment and all though the thickies have concerns over a loss of national identity we have been slowly becoming more worldly wise for many years now anyway (there is a new polish restaurant down the road for pete's sake).

This is the reason why the Tories want a referendum, they know that the majority of UK will vote against the Euro. It is the main reason why I hope that the government just moves us in with out us being able to bugger it up. When the UK population become clever enough to discuss this on both sides with out the thought of loss of identity or on the other side that it would be lovely to be European and lets forget the consequences (I will admit to this) and actually discuss this as is it should be discussed whether it is a sound economic decision for the UK to move in to Euroland or not then we should not have a referendum.

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For Europe
Against Europe

I have just finished reading Stalingrad and Berlin by Antony Beevor and I am still trying to get my head around it all. I didn't do much history as a kid or anything really that didn't include either engineering or physics, so in order for me to get a better all round education and understanding I took a recommendation from my mate Matty to read these books. They are very well written but extremely hard work as they start to try to explain the scale of the war such as the 26 Million Russians dead including civilians and Red Army during the four years before the German unconditional surrender on the 9th May 1945, that's nearly half the population of the UK. I wanted to write here some key aspect or write on one of the themes of the books as there was so much to cover whether it was the millions that died when Hitler attacked the Russians or when Stalin decided to take retribution back in Berlin by sending 6.7 million men of the Red Army, stretching from Baltic to the Adriatic (twice the strength of the Wehrmacht and its allies when they invaded the soviet union in June 1941), the literal millions of women that were raped by soldiers (from both sides) that had lost all sense of humanity or simply how bad luck it was that two of the biggest paranoid schizophrenic lunatic genocidal power hungry monsters where not only born at the same time they also managed to gain power of two massive countries with huge armies. I think you should just read them to show how bad we humans can be, it reminds me of the quote from Albert Einstein 'I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.'

Prescot laughs of v-sign

I can't believe how much this has all kicked off. I watched the whole section on 'News Night' on the Thursday night before all the papers went mental and what happened (which apparently always happens) is that the photographers give trash talk to the politicians as they walk along Downing Street and the politicians give some back. Apparently an example of this is during the Iraq war, Clare Short forgot where her car was and accidentally walked the wrong direction when coming out of 10 Downing Street, as she turned round some one shouted 'another u-turn then Clare'.

All this resign rubbish and other stuff for someone flicking the v's is bloody stupid I actually did a little research on where the v-sign came from and apparently it started around 1415 at the Battle of Agincourt. The French, anticipating victory over the British, proposed cutting off the middle finger and the first finger of all captured soldiers. Without these fingers it would be impossible for the British soldiers to draw their bow as both were required to pull back the traditional yew longbow. Against the odds the British won and began mocking the French sticking up the v-sign. It actually harmless in all other cultures check out the images they are funny (well if your english)

The Friday 5-Do I really want to answer these
1. How many times have you truly been in love?
Once, when your young you always think your in love but it's just hormones
2. What was/is so great about the person you love(d) the most?
She is a part of me, she is always there, even when I am alone
3. What qualities should a significant other have?
Understanding, supporting, honesty, a willing to compromise and keeping faith in troubled times
4. Have you ever broken someone's heart?
Maybe when I was younger but again when your young, love is often confused with hormones
5. If there was one thing you could teach people about love, what would it be?
Honesty, always talk openly about the way you feel and don't try to mask your feelings or lie. Most of the problems in relationships dramatised in films and soaps are caused due to a misunderstanding or someone saying something different to what they were actually feeling. We all do it to a more or less extent as a protective barrier against being hurt, but in the end to be true to one another, you must each surrender.

Several people where arrested by police today while trying to get off a plane in Oxford Airport after MI5 and the CIA gave police a series of tip-offs. The detainees had a quantity of protractors, rulers and compasses and are thought to be from the Al-G-Bra group. The government where quick to point out there success in their intelligence gathering but are warning the general public to stay vigilant as the group are desperately trying to acquire weapons of math destruction.

Happy Birthday Tone!!!

Matrix Reloaded

So I saw the film two weekends ago and have been trying to work it out ever since. Unlike a lot of critics I thought the film was brilliant (you gotta remember that this is no recommendation, I liked the Phantom Menace for gods sake), and it is now perfectly setup for the final film, Revolutions in November. I have been looking deeply into the whole Matrix phenomena, immersing myself in the Animatrix, animated shorts written by the Wachowski brothers and made in to some serious CGI (Final Flight of the Osiris) or Manga style animations (Second Renaissance Part 1 & 2), Enter the Matrix, the video game that runs alongside the second film and also the million websites that talk about the philosophy of the Matrix and wondered if there were many other films that created this much discussion about and around a film.

Links 2 Essays and Philosophy on the Matrix
Matrix Essays
Philosophy and The Matrix
Matrix Theories

The Mars Express mission is launched today with the Beagle2 (the website is very good) lander onboard. The launch can be followed live on the internet at esa.capcave.com/esa/marsexpress/ starting today (Monday 2nd June) at 18.45 BST on. Mars Express is the first of three missions to Mars with the other two coming from NASA and it is the first solo mission Europe has ever attempted to any planet.

The Beagle2 lander is completely down to one man Colin Pillinger from the Open University who begged, borrowed and stole in order to get the thing flying, he used famous artists and musicians to get into the public domain. People like Damien Hirst produced the calibration target in the form of a spot painting (calibration target briefing notes) to calibrate several of the sensors and Blur have recorded a track which will be played as a call sign that will be transmitted back to Earth once Beagle 2 is on the surface.

Phase 2 - Remove Brick Wall

Please help me, I am extremely bored!!!