Then I hear a noise in the distance, it is far enough away to ignore.

But it keeps getting louder.

It is getting to loud to ignore.

It is the 3 drunken students walking home.

Bastards!

They are arguing about something. Yip, they are shouting aggressively at each other about something. Although I am annoyed, I am now awake and I am now also vaguely interested. What are they arguing about? I start to listen.

There are three voices, two of the drunken student voices seem to be on the same side arguing against the other drunken student voice. The one voice rises above the other two voices, demanding to be heard.

“The only reason I said it, was because I knew what would have happened if I didn’t say it, and it nearly did happen. And if it did happen, you would have been sorry that I didn’t say what I did say. So because of me and what I said, he didn’t do the thing he would have done. So, FUCK YOU!”

One of the other voices pipes up.

“No, fuck you, fuck you! That’s not what happened.

We were in control, we knew what was going on and we knew what he was going to do, and it would have been fine, but he didn’t do it, because when you said what you said, he didn’t do was he was going to do, and he done the thing he did do. You fucked it up for us all. So, FUCK YOU!”

Now, the third voice feels like he should also contribute. I think he knows I am listening.

“Yeahhh, you fuck, you fucked it. Maaaan, we knew, or at least we would have known until you fucked it, now the only thing we know is that you fucked it,,,, FUCK!”

The voices start to get quieter until they disappear into the distance. I am left wondering. What did he do? What happened? Fuck, I’m tired. Sleep.

Then, high heals, shrieking, giggling. It is five drunk student girls. It is going to be a long sleepless night. 

Personally, I support the postal strike. I support anyone who strikes, anyone who strikes it to the man, anyone who displays any kind socialist type behaviour. I am also fed up getting loads of letters from people telling me I have won a car, a holiday, a yacht. Amazing, I am so lucky. I never even entered the competitions. No I don’t want a loan, I don’t want another credit card, I am already in debt and I don’t like pizza, no I don’t want to give my money to your charity, I have negative money. A wee rest bite from all this junk mail will be good. I really do wish I had a spam folder for my real door. Maby I should get a dog, call him spam and teach him to eat everything that comes through my letter box.

I wonder do the postal workers have picket lines? Would a line of angry postmen be an effective deterrent. I mean, angry coal miners are a threatening proposition, but a swarm of hostile postmen just seems kind of comical to me. I keep thinking of postman pat. Imagine being berated by an angry mob of postman pat type characters.

I would like to give the postmen there dues. I think anyone who is against the strike is just jealous because they cant strike. Don’t be so bitter, you get to sit in a warm office all day, you get to sit and drink tea, the most physically demanding thing you need to do is press the button on the lift, you get your sick days and you can take them anytime you want,,,,, not just in the run up to Christmass.

Everyone in the group put forward there opinion about the various teas and infusions and told the rest of the group how much tea and coffee they drink on a day to day basis. John and Julie both came to the same conclusion. They like normal Tetley tea. Neil likes Green tea and Redbush Tea but isn’t to enamored about herbal infusions. I like coffee myself but only two cups in the morning and then I move onto redbush in the afternoon. The conversation ended rather abruptly. I dont think anyone could maintain the energy required to keep this livley discussion going any longer.

Benidorm is sufferng paricualrly (my uncle was over thier on holiday, he told them, so it is the truth). Apparently,,, because prices are so high, no one is going on holiday anymore. Benidorm used to employ over three thousand waiters. Now it only employs 1000. That leaves two thousand unemployed waiters.

According to my Nana and papa (who got the information from my uncle, who was in Bendorm for a week on holiday, who never exaigerates anything, unlike the uncle everyone else has who does exagirate.....) the 2000 unemployed waiters, are living in the streets of Benidorm in cardboard huts,,,, and it is £10 for a pint of lager.

My nana and papa, its mad when you go round there......

I love my nana and papa, but sometimes my nana repeats herself. She will ask me and my brother what we do for a job everytime we go round.

My brother will tell her, “I work as a gardener”. Both my Nana and my Papa understand this, they can talk about it, they smpathise with Jamie as he tells them about his bigotted boss, the cold weather, what he does for lunch.

Then, I tell them. I work as a web designer in an IT dept..... There is silence, they look at me, confused, and ask “what do you do??” I try to tell them about web sites, the internet, what my company does, selling information about how to obtain information to get contracts that are involved in maintaining information for the government,,,,, but as I am telling them I am thinking to myself,,,, what the fuck DO I actually do.....

My Nana, with a kind of confused yet knowing look usually ends the conversation with a very sincere,,,, “Thats nice, do you want a cup of tea son”.

The people of this country care to much about freedom.

“Those Iranians seem dangerous, maby bombing them is an option”

Actually, maby there is something in this theory....... I think we have already been given the fucking alien virus. Maby the one they are handing out just now is the cure........ Fuck, imagine what the cure might do.

Instead of waking up at 7 in the morning after a shit sleep and forcing yourself out of bed to go to a place that you hate for 9 hours where you do stuff you don’t care about.....

You might just wake up and say to yourself. Fuck it, I’m not going to work. I’m sleeping in till 12, then I am going to get up, eat a packet of biscuits and watch day time tv for the next 5 hours.

Imagine everyone done that, it would be like everyone in the matrix took the same pill as nero, the matrix would collapse, chaos, anarchy, madness!  I think that might be a good thing. At least it would put an end to strictly come dancing, Britain’s got talent and all these other pish shows.

I bet Simon Cowel is the fucking alien leader as well, it is that big, weird colored head of his that gives the game away.

Jimstruth.co.uk highlights the artwork of Strathaven and Glasgow based artist Jim Struth. Jquery was used to create the Gallery section.

Gypfast.co.uk focuses on the new Gypfast product. Wordpress is used as the content management system for this site.

There is the ever ragging battle between Mac users and PC users, both stating that there platform is the better. Then there is the software, Freehand or Illustrator, Reason or Logic, Quark or In Design, Cubase or Pro Tools, the list goes on. I get the feeling that some people research and discuss software and hardware more than actually using the said tools to create anything.

Yes I think that software and hardware can have a hand in shaping the final product be it a song or a design but ultimately a good design or good song does not transpire because of the tools that were used to create it. In my opinion a good song will still be a good song whether it is created on an acoustic guitar or created in a software package such as Reason. I also hold this view in regards to web and graphic design. A logo or page layout can be designed using only a pencil and a bit of paper and still be a good design.

I guess what I am trying to say that software and hardware are only tools in the same way a hammer is the tool of a joiner. Maybe a joiner has a favorite hammer but how many times do you hear a joiner arguing or discussing his choice of hammer with another joiner? Maybe I am being over simplistic,,,, or deliberately provocative!

In this industry it sometimes feels like it is the tools operating the workers, Is this the way it should be? Let me clarify what I am trying to say. A navigation bar for a web site is a simple concept, It should allow users the ability to navigate through the site with minimal effort.

A navigation bar is generally a simple thing to create for most web designers. Yes the navigation should look part of the site as a whole, but how complicated does it need to be? How many hours extra should be invested in a java script, flash or moo tools driven navigation? How many extra hours will be needed to maintain this new navigation when changes to the structure of the site take place? Then again it is allways fun learning and some of those moo tools menus are pretty cool!