My blog of everyday life

The National Trust is encouraging people to record a diary of their day on a website, as part of what is being called "Britain's biggest blog" (BBC). Today, Tuesday 17th October 2006, has been chosen as an ordinary day with no particular outstanding quality, to become a future-history project!

The idea is that the bloggers will write about the more mundane things in life, like how they got to work, what they eat etc., and this will be stored in an archive and looked at in hundreds of years. I'd love to contribute to this so I will! Here is my entry that I'll modify throughout the day and upload before I go to sleep tonight:

My first alarm went off at 6:30 this morning, so I reached down to it (it was on the floor for some reason!) and hit the snooze button. Now the snooze button has been broken for about three months, but I still try it every day! Funnily enough, today was the same as every other day, and it did bugger all! Anyway I turned the thing off and dozed again until 7:30 when the alarm on my mobile went off. I turned my TV on and listened to Friends while I woke up (my eyes were still shut so I couldn't watch!).

Went downstairs at 8, said bye to my housemate and jumped in the shower. Freezing my tits off until I got used to it. Played with the shower radio, trying to get some pirates but they kept losing signal.

Ironed my shirt, had a little chat with my mate who'd stayed round (he'd been to see the GooGoo Dolls last night in Sheppards Bush with my housemate) , listened to some MP3s on my PC while getting ready, and left at half eight.

I walked to Harringay station and got the train to Moorgate, reading the Metro on the way. Got to Moorgate and walked to london Wall McDonalds, ordered my usual Sausage and Egg McMuffin and Coke and wiped the dirty Metro newspaper print off my fingers!

After my tasty breakfast (just so you know, in 2006 McDonalds is the DON of unhealthy tasty food!!) walked up Moorgate to work, came in, checked my emails, checked West ham message board, and checked BBC News, where I saw the article about this Blog Diary thing!


More to come....

Edit
Just realised the above post is gonna bore the hell out of everyone who reads it! SO I've just done a cut-down version and submitted it, here it is:
Got woken up by my alarm at 6:30, hit snooze even tho I know the button's broken, so I turned the thing off. I hate the sound of my alarm with a passion. It is always a massive shock to the system to realise it's a new day!Watched Friends whilst waking up (watched may be the wrong word cos my eyes were still shut!), then finally jumped in the shower at 8. I listened to some MP3s on my PC while getting ready, then ran for the train to Moorgate, where I work!
Got to Moorgate with grubby hands from the nespaper print of the Metro, walked to McDonalds (in 2006 MCDs is known as the tastiest food in the world!) and got myself some breakfast. Sat down at my desk and checked the usual:EmailWest Ham sitesMy BlogBBC Newsso basically I slacked for an hour on the Internet before starting any work!For the rest of the day I'll be working (IT Support for a large bank), playing footy in a Power League at lunchtime, then I've gotta do overtime tonight til 8. This happens to be one of the most boring days of my life, normally it's fun-packed, but hey I gotta be honest and I gotta earn the dollar!!Might go for a drink after work if anyone else is still around, otherwise it'll be home, chill, with nothing to say about the day other than I earned some mulah! But my life is random, that could all change at the drop of a hat!p.s. Hello Ancestors, how u doin?!

London - the best city on Earth?

- Scores of world famous buildings and iconic landmarks (e.g. Houses of Parliament, Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square and the London Eye, to name just a few)

- Arguably the most cosmopolitan and multicultural population in the world (more than 300 languages are spoken here)- Most powerful financial centre in the world (beginning to surpass NYC)

- Largest aviation hub in the world- More parks and green spaces than any other city of its size in the world (almost 39% of its total area is green)

- Contains the world's most expensive house, and the world's most expensive commercial office space

- Lays claim to the world's oldest subway network; also the longest if measured by route kilometres

- Arguably the sports capital of the world. Contains more 10,000+ all-seater stadiums than any other city on the planet. Currently building the world's biggest football stadium.

- Some of the world's most prestigious and famous shopping, e.g. Harrods, Fortnum and Mason, Harvey Nichols, Selfridges, Liberty's

- More than 12,000 restaurants and 5,000 pubs

- The largest nightlife district in the world

- Metropolitan area contains several of the world's top universities (Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, UCL)

- Nearly 2,000 years of history, heritage and cultural influence. Formerly the capital of a global empire.

Saddam Hussein was vital for uniting Iraq

There are three distinct groups in Iraq:

1. The Sunnis
2. The Shi'ites
3. The Kurds

These groups in general do not want to live with each other. The only thing that kept them united as one country was a dictator, one Saddam Hussein. Any attempts by any group to break away were quickly quashed by the strict leadership.

And now there is no Saddam Hussein.

The three groups are living in near Anarchy in a "country" called Iraq due to the failures of the Coalition Forces to create a secure Iraq post-invasion. So now that there is no dictatorship, we see that Civil War is breaking out (if it has not done already - I believe it has but politicians do not want to admit it).

This is a natural situation. With no strict dictator to unite the country, the country falls apart. Why should Iraq as a nation exist? It is entirely artificial, because it was created by Britain in 1932. Countries are formed, unfortunately, by war. War to determine who rules who. This could take two years, or hundreds of years, but it needs to be done. Now it is left to it's own devices rather than being ruled by a dictator, it can have this war to decide where the country borders should be drawn. An artifical country it is no more.


Iraq was created by Britain and it has been destroyed by Britain.

Marble madness

Check out this video. It's called the Rube-Goldberg Machine.
The makers of this must be right physics geniuses/geeks.



Hate that guys cheesy grin at the end though!

Describe the world with WikiMapia

Found a quality new web 2.0 site via StumbleUpon...

It's called WikiMapia and is a cross between Wikipedia and Google Earth!

Basically, it uses Google's satellite images of the earth which can be zoomed in to fine detail (even cars are visible in most cities and towns), and lets users describe an area on that map. In this way it is hoped that the website will "describe the whole world" - areas, towns, buildings, parks, shopping centres, football stadiums, schools etc. are all described.

I think this site's great and reckon it will really take off.

Check it out here.

Jack Straw for Leader of the Labour Party

So Jack Straw MP has decided to announce that he prefers it if Muslim women do NOT wear full Muslim Veils, and that he asks those visiting him to remove them (BBC News).

Cue cries of outrage from some in the Muslim community, including the Islamic Human Rights Commission (BBC News). Apparently this is "selectively discriminating" against Muslim women (or those that choose to wear the full niqab).

Now to me, discrimination is when you give different treatment to different people, beit more fair or less fair. Well, Jack Straw is discriminating against those that cover themselves up in this way, because he is treating them differently to those that do not cover themselves up. However is it relevant that they are Muslim?

I'm sure if someone turned up in a hoody and baseball cap he would say the same thing. He would not insist that the garms were removed, but I bet he would ask for them to be as it meant he wouldn't be able to see their face. What's the difference?

The difference is that some people are trying to stir up a clash of civilisations. Muslims Vs. Christians/Jews. Those wearing baseball caps and hoodies are not involved! Maybe both sides are trying to stir it up........

Either way, watch this space, it's gonna get worse!

I say, good on you Mr. Straw, you've not insulted anyone, and you haven't let political correctness stop you from saying what you think. Jack Straw for Leader of the Labour Party!