http://silver-lizard.co.uk The Bitter Ramblings of a Disillusioned Idealist Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:51:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bournemouth Borough council have back-tracked, and will be allowing 'lunatics, idiots, [the] deaf and [the] dumb' to stand in local elections after all. Good for them I say, if you want to run for election then you should be able to. Now, banning lunatics and idiots from voting, that sounds like ... http://silver-lizard.co.uk/2007/04/07/lunatics-and-idiots-can-stand-for-election/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/04/childrens_cctv/comments/ joyous Powered by ScribeFire. http://silver-lizard.co.uk/2007/04/04/welcome/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/6521603.stm leave the guy alone, at least he has opinions - Boris for PM Powered by ScribeFire. http://silver-lizard.co.uk/2007/04/04/boris/ This really should an April Fools joke, but it seems to be for real. A group in Austria are going to court to get a Chimpanzee declared Human. No, no, no. No matter how intelligent or sophisticated this particular Chimpanzee maybe, he does not 'deserve to be treated as a human'; ... http://silver-lizard.co.uk/2007/04/04/chimp-should-be-granted-human-status/ Oh for God's sakebbc http://silver-lizard.co.uk/2007/04/02/history/ It began innocently enough: a colleague's huge 17" Dell laptop starting a conversation about what makes a good laptop. The majority view in the office being that it should be as powerful as possible, with as big a screen as possible. Even a 17" screen being seen as too ... http://silver-lizard.co.uk/2007/03/27/fujitsu-p1610-a-miniature-marvel/ It's strange. My initial motivation for creating this site, and for resurrecting it twice, has always been to write about one subject in particular, and a vague idea to delve in to a second. The reason for it's rapid and repeated decline, as been that writing about both of ... http://silver-lizard.co.uk/2006/09/12/motivation/ The BBC are reporting that the ACPO want more powers to hand out 'instant justice' to those who are causing a menace in town centres. The very term 'instant justice' conjours up images of a distopian future full of police officers acting like Judge Dredd, with no due process at ... http://silver-lizard.co.uk/2006/08/15/i-am-the-law/ It seems that Mel Smith has backed down from his threat to violate the smoking ban whilst playing Churchill on stage at the Edinburgh Festival, and after comments from council's Chief Enforcement Officer (a job title for a self important jobsworth if ever there was one) threating to revoke the ... http://silver-lizard.co.uk/2006/08/08/close-but-no-cigar/ Thanks to the wonders of Googles cache, I have been able to recover most of the content of this site from before my web host vanished. Looking back on it most of it seems remarkably dull! But I'll gradually repost the more interesting peices, as well as those that seem ... http://silver-lizard.co.uk/2006/08/05/google-magic/