Oliver Jackson is a blogger, web developer & designer living and working in Edinburgh.
Off home for a few days, byeeeeee
This gallery of posters showing reactions to the war is very good and has some very thought provoking designs.
On the subject of the war, I just can’t help notice how surreal the war is becoming. Its partly due to the amount of technology available to journalists, it allows them to report stories with such speed and to actually be there as it happens. I can now be sat on the sofa watching my countries soldiers, as they kill another countries soldiers with bewildering arrays of equipment and firepower. Then we get the reporters being killed or coming under fire, and even better, we get them being bombed by our side, live! on air! as it happens! (bbc news )
I had bbc news 24 on this morning as background noise and my attention was perked by a tour around one of Saddam’s palaces. Some bbc reporter was hamming it up very badly, thinking he was on house doctors or changing rooms or something. He skipped around this palatial building pointing out all the wood carving, marble and stained glass. Even checking out the bathrooms with the gold plate plumbing and making wild speculations about how much it cost and how many had died builiding it. The punchline came at the end though, when he ended it with:
“Who lives in a house like this……Saddam Hussein lives in a house like this”
I kid you not.
Winner of the day though is the Iraqi Information Minister. Who gave a impromtu press conference in the streets of Baghdad categoricaly denying that the US has entered Iraq, saying that the invader had been “slaughtered” and they were comitting suicide at the walls of the city. All this when US armour was less than half a mile away across the Tigras and the weapons fire within earshot. He is propaganda personified.
My buddy/colleague Joe has just set up his home on the net at woolamaloo.org.uk.
His mission?
“to take sideswipes at stories from the media, to lampoon those who deserve it and to satirise current events, all while also hopefully making people think at the same time”.
I’m also expecting blog entries coming from Joe’s uniquely skewed perspective on life.
Hrm, its worrying when the blog page starts looking sparse as MT archives old posts. I’ve been “busy” trying to finish my Individual Programming Practical which is due in on the 16th. We have to program a peer-to-peer file sharing system, which sounds really cool! But, believe me, its not. Although I just haven’t put enough time into it becuase of my lame-ass attitide towards uni work and spending too much time online…
wait…
I’m always online, maybe that could be it…
surely not
Also my sister is visiting tomorrow, mainly to visit Heriot Watt university on Wednesday but also so we can catch up and have a few drinks etc. After that I’m catching the same train home with her to visit the folks.
Although, andrew, the kind soul has lent me his laptop so I can do some work at home. I also tend to get more work done just sat looking at the laptop than when I’m at my desk in front of my main pc, always checking of my downloads, IRC-ing, email ppl, faffing with setttings, etc…
That was the sound of my show-off horn. We managed to get on the blueyonder two megabit trial.
This means our one meg line gets upgraded to two meg for a month, free of charge.
\o/\o/
PS I’m currently getting 190 KB/s off bit torrent.
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