Hello dear readers!
You may have noticed a distinct lack of my ramblings recently.
There are three main reasons for this.

1)There's not much to ramble about lately, bar the government data losses and the football tradjedy.
2)I'm a lazy tosspot, and I forgot
3)My internet time is being spent much more effectively, recently. Her name's Sinéad.

I tell you that, becuase everyone knows now anyway, although, I've managed to keep quiet since September ...
According to my friends, she's in fact called Dave, has a beard and originates from Cosovo. None of this, I assure you, is true.

Enough of that.
 
I need something to rant and rave about, so first, I'll pick on our diabolical excuse for a government. In the last 3 weeks, government organisations have managed to lose two sets of data. HMRC lost details for child benefits (although the figure of 25 million was rather exaggerated), and this week, the DVLA announced that they'd lost details of over 6000 car owners in N. Ireland. What amazes me is this:
In a world of high technology and easy-to-use ICT facilities, why the fuck would a government send personal details around on unencrypted CDs in public mail? If it's absolutely necessary to send things, I'm sure any government organisation (there's an oxymoron for you) can cough up about a tenner for a special delivery.
That aside, you'd have thought that the DVLA would've maybe decided to at least encrypt their information, after only weeks before, HMRC made the same mistake.
So, what the government have pretty much proved is that they obviously can't be trusted. Yet, they wonder why less people are voting these days. They've also proved that they have a knack for employing stupid people and a have a blatent colective lack of common sense.
What really gets me is the fact that the DVLA addressed everyone affected as "customers". Customers are people who go to a business or agency to pay for their services. If that service isn't good enough, they can take their custom elsewhere. We, on the other hand, are stuck with an incompetant and unreliable "service" that we have to pay for whether we like it or not.

On another note ... I'm standing here in the pouring rain, where the fuck's my fucking train!? ...
All they say is "please mind the doors" , and they learn that on the two day course ...
So don't tell me to "mind the gap", I want my fucking money back!
Awesome song, I'm sure most Londoners would agree. I know a few tube drivers, they say they find it vaguely offensive, and naive, but, nevertheless they see the funny side.
Never in my life, did I think I'd actually find a real excuse to draw any real comparison to the song. Needless to say, I did on Saturday.
After going to the Hyde Park Winter Wonder Land, we decided to go to Namco (something to do with the fact that WWL wasn't really that good ) . So we thought we could rely on good old London Underground to provide a service that vaguely suited our needs.
Never have I seen such a total fuckfest. Hyde Park Corner station was packed. The platform was literally packed, full of screaming kids, grandparents, mules, and generally wet people.
Yet, the twat who LU had let loose with the station tannoy announcer system saw fit to inform us of this :

"You are causing an obstruction on the platform. Please turn to your left and move down. Put on foot in front of the other and move.
Please don't delay this train from leaving, otherwise the next one will take longer to get in, besides, if you didn't get this one, you're unlikely to get the next on, let the customers behind you get on. Your next train has just left Knightsbridge, it will arrive shortly. By the way, it's just as packed as the last one, you probably won't get on, so just move further down the platform"

Condesending prick. That wasn't the worst of it either. So we wrote a sign saying "Have a nice day" and held it up against the CCTV camera. Before getting the train in the opposite direction and taking a long winding route to Namco.

Anyway, that's me for today.
Oh and guys, add me as a friend for gods sake! I feel like a complete loser!