A long while ago this popped up on BoingBoing.
I am getting increasingly fed up with the amount of junk mail that comes through the door, so after a bit of a search on Google I found the post.
After a quick run through Paint (yes Paint) I have adapted it for my use:
If it is unsuccessful I will edit it a bit more, and start to charge a £5GBP handling fee for every bit of junk I receive.
I am getting fed up of fake charity, or even real charity breaking the law, between Painted Children 1 2 collecting without a permit (looking at that they may not even be a real charity either) and Rutex Limited, and W&W Help Limited 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; I am sure there will be more however that is more than enough to illustrate the point. (please add comments and links as you become aware of others).
Some of you may know that I sometimes collect for charity with an organisation called Ragabonds, on a number of occations I can even help mkae some money for them [totals board].
So please please read the flyers; and always request to see the collectors Permit and Certificate of Authority.
I have put this back on line; what i am going to do with it remains to be seen; as Twitter is much easer to use 
This is what they call a discount?
Taken in my local Woolworths, at lunch.
On Friday night I was pulled over by the police on my way back from Avebury, according to their database; my car is un-insured, now this is a data base that is 68% accurate on vehicles [Reference]. Now Insurance details are dealt with a different database, one that not all insurance company’s send there data to [The Police officer who pulled me over told me this]. now rather than the police doing police work and investigating me for not having insurance, they ask me to prove that I do have insurance, (so much for innocent until proven guilty).
So After taking my MOT, Insurance, and Drivers licence to the police station, and having to prove my innocence, for a offence they can not prove has been committed, but is also statistically unlikely to have been committed by me. (You need insurance, and an MOT, to get a tax disk, and mine is only a month old [This is on my car])
Today I have been playing with getting with my drivers licence, and now have sent it all off to the DVLA to get it updated to a full pink one,
While filling out my D1 form I noticed a section on it relating to being an Organ Donor; While I was in NY, Manda, Ian, Dave and Myself were discussing the campaign for opting out of organ donation. Now I am opposed to implied consent, however the other three thought that implied consent is a good idea.
I am all for organ donation, as such on my drivers licence I have consented to my organs being available for transplant, but since they asked for me to Opt-in, and I agree with organ donation, I did.
Four of us Escaped the clutches of Manchester on Saturday, and Made a long distance (high Speed dash) over a large body of water,
Manda, Dave, Ian, and I have now spent two full days in New York, We are staying in a Hotel called the Carlton Arms (http://www.carltonarms.com), the entire insides of which are covered in art work, (will try to get some good photos)
Wondering round the city is interesting, the entire area is based on a grid system, which should make it easy to navigate, but not convinced as yet.
Today’s half plan is to go and see what central park looks like, as i have seen it in a few movies (one notable is the 10th kingdom (IMDB). and it looks extensive, i am not sure how it compares in size to the royal parks, but no harm in looking.
As some of you may know, and others of you may not, i am not going back to Plymouth this year, and as such i am looking for a job to tide me over for a while,
Tommorow i have an Interview with Hill McGlynn, in Bristol. they are a consultancy firm, and i am not sure what sort of clients they have beyond the railway environment being there fortay,
If you know of any body who is looking for employees please let me know as at the moment any job would be cool 
Ben is looking to upgrade/fix his computer and has been looking at dual core PC’s he mentions that they use the line “…now you can simultaneously burn a CD, check e-mail, edit a digital photo, and run your virus protection – all without slowing down your computer” as a benefit of dual cores….. Corect me if i am wrong, but was that not the marketing tagline of some of the following :- Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP, 64bit processors, and any new computer From PC world?
Saga my poor under powered server is a 1.4GHz 256mb beast, running Windows 2000, and Ubuntu AT THE SAME TIME, all without me worrying about slow down, why? well not just because the virus checker only runs at 3am? or because i don’t have a CDRW attached?
Oh and 64Bit? bugger that, it still doesnt work with XP, yes i have tried, Repeatadly to get it to work, and its a waist of time, Windows XP64 is a pile of crap, which is why i still use XP32 on my 64bit computer
Today was my last day at Scott Wilson! off to greenbelt on monday!
