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Merry Christmas to all readers of my blog…hope you all have a good day

A week or so ago Nestle announced that from January the 4 finger Kitkat would be Fairtrade (link)…which of course for people who Boycott Nestle (largely over their Baby Milk scandels which still continue today) flashes up an ethical dilema…however I don’t think it’s time to start buying from the company who are rated 0.5 [...]

I’ve been thinking about this blog for the last 24 hours and what to say as a reaction to the number one and I have to be honest, although I had high hopes for Rage I truly expected to be hearing Joe as number 1 however Rage have just been announced as Christmas number 1. [...]

As the year nears a close and the battle for the Christmas number one ends tomorrow I thought I’d blog my top 6 albums of 2009. I always buy a lot of music and 2009 has been a good year for music so here is my favourites! (in no particular order) 1 – Bowling for [...]

So my Christmas shopping is done, I’ve just finished writing my first Christmas song (unless in the bleak midwinter re-write counts?) and I should have a drumless version on my Myspace in the next few days…the lyrics are already up on my lyric blog (it’s called ‘Christmas sucks without her’). Tomorrow Jo comes to South [...]

I’ve solved my browser issue! As I mentioned on my Google Chrome for Mac review I liked the feel of Chrome but it was a little glitchy…well I have gone back to Firefox but installed the Chromifox Theme which makes it look like Chrome but run with the reliability of Firefox…good browser times! Link to [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything amazingly serious and this isn’t going to be especially serious just geeky! Since Google released their Chrome browser on Windows I’ve been waiting for the Mac version and finally it’s arrived! I’ve been using Chrome for a few days now and have some initial thoughts on it. [...]

So as Christmas approaches I felt a festive blog was in order…and with Rage against the machine currently winning the number 1 race (I wonder if the x factor release on Wednesday will change that?) I thought I’d do something on music! On Thursday Jo and myself went to the Sheffield CU Carol concert and [...]

This week I was told about an article in The Times Educational Supplement about Youth Alpha being run in schools (link to article) and was forwarded the link to the article. I had heard fairly negative things about the article’s view of alpha but in reading it seems to make sense in the message it’s [...]

The campaign I mentioned the other day to get Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing in the name’ has even made it into The Sun! This article suggests that it’s got pretty high chances of being near the top especially if the campaign keeps growing. Here’s an extract from the article Angry music fans have launched [...]

Has my fiance changed her gender or has the person who sent me the e-mail (header pictured below) just decided that Jo is a blokes name and I’m therefore their gay youth worker? haha! Disclaimer: I am definately straight, Jo is a female and this post is very much tongue-in-cheek

I usually avoid Facebook groups but one titled ‘Rage against the machine for Christmas number one’ caught my eye (link). The concept is simple…rather than yet another Christmas number 1 being the result of a tacky-manufactured television show it should be a song that stands for the opposite so the Facebook group (currently with over [...]