Absoblogginlutely! - IRL

Interesting news that a politician is actually doing something useful for once and is trying to get a bill that basically provides more protection from police harassment to photographers taking pictures on the street. There have been several cases where people have been stopped for taking pictures in public - the silliest one being a photographer in Blackpool of all places.  I wholeheartedly agree, especially after being stopped by the cops in Columbus and the excuse of "suspicious activity after 9/11" is a great coverup.  One of the points that I hadn’t previously thought about is that it is perfectly acceptable to have CCTV filming you EVERYWHERE you go, but it is not ok to take your own pictures????? Now we just need something similar in the US but well done Austin Mitchell.

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So after a very long week at work I needed to relax and we’d been thinking of getting an Xbox or PS3 and playing RockBand. We tried RockBand out in Best Buy earlier this week and it seemed like fun so last night I pooled my birthday money and savings and we got this set. We had a blast playing RockBand last night - Kristen is quite the drummer. The funny thing is that one person getting their stuff wrong will affect the other people in the game - if the guitar is out then the music cuts and you can miss the tune and hence the beat. If the drummer is off, then it’s hard to strum on time as the drum beat will put you off.  Even though neither of us read the manual on what we were meant to do we still had fun. I’ve now read the manual AND adjusted the tv so we get the full screen so we’ll be playing tonight for sure. Incidentally I went for the PS3 as it comes with the wifi adapter as part of the console as opposed to an add-on for the Xbox and it also has Ratchet and Clank so Kristen will be happy.

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I had to go to a customer (twice) today and the second time the weather was pretty bad. What took me 20 minutes this morning took over 1hour and 20 minutes this afternoon to get back to the office. The GoogleMaps picture shows what the traffic is like now. Scarily enough, even with the fact that it was not possible to see the road surface, undertaking me on the approach to a roundabout, cutting me off and generally tanking on the roads is ok if you just HAVE to get your haircut.  Personally I hope the snow and rain freezes her new haircut and makes a right mess of it when she comes out of the salon and ruins the $200 haircut.

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