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IMG_4444, originally uploaded by species5618.

one of my pathetic attempts at artistic photos

Some while ago??I wrote this “Someone living near me has been a naughty boy”

Well the presence of the stange BMW has continued, and can occasionlay be seen on weekends

However yesterday saw an intersting development.

A different car, parked same spot with two people with clips boards, acoompanied but TWO, yes TWO EON, power vans, small meter changing type vans, not the big, power fault, dig up the road trucks,

My thinks someone has has the lecky cut off….

yet another upgrade

bulk upgrade, did a few this time

GREEN GRASS, originally uploaded by species5618.

Test post from flickr.com

moment of bored, before cutting grass

Canon EOS400D, Sigma 17-70

or may be a universal Conspiracy to PISS me off

I can’t work out if??I have been transported to a parallel world full of fuckwits or i am becomaing a grumpy old man

This last 4 days seem to have been particularly annoying

1. EON, take NINE months to work out I owe them ??40 and then demand payment within SEVEN days, or they get the big guns out
2. Child given police warning for playing in a tree yet the Corpotate Beggers are out in force in the town center again, surely they deserve and ASBO by now.
3. Car Main dealers who wait till you drop off your car to tell you it could take a few days to fix
4. Nasty courtesy cars that are so noisy, you have to turn up the radio, which then is painfully distorted
5. Being hassled to complete stuff which is not due yet
6. Being hassled for usage stats report, which actually got emailed out a week ago
7. People panicing over swine flu which has killed fewer people since it kicked off (over 6 months ago) than smoking, drinking, knifes or guns have killed in the past 24 hours. (eagerly awaiting the deliever of my tami-beer)

sure there is more, !

upgrade, test, Ok

upgraded, seems to work

Well upgrade to 2.8 went real smooth, as it always does

not sure if i will ever find the chance to use the new features, or if I am brave enough to re-enable the file permissions need to make them work.

I must look at enabling FTP from localhost at some point to get the self updates to work..

There is a lot of hype in the media of late about privacy, big brother state, Google street view, state owned data base on phone calls and internet use. There has also been some on social networks and gate crashing parties. But on closer examination there is more in common between state / corporate privacy issues and social networking that you might think.

Let’s talk about something we all understand first. If a young college student is doing child care studies, with the goal of becoming a child minder or nursery nurse, goes out and gets very drunk, falls over into someone else and a fight breaks out, a drunk and disorderly (or even GBH) charge may result. She will now fail the CRB check required to work with children. Mind you in extreme circumstance putting you bin out in the wrong day could also cause you to fail future CRB check!

Now apply this to social networking like Facebook, or ANY photo sharing service which allows tagging , naming and comments on photos, Flickr, Picasa Twitpic to name a few..

Now let’s re-visits the above scenario. A young college student is doing child care studies, with the goal of becoming a child minder or nursery nurse, goes out and gets very drunk, falls over, and is then sat in a pool of her own vomit with her underwear on show to everyone. Out pops all the camera phones, and with-in minutes that photo, she would rather forget, is posted ALL over the internet. Add some powerful internet search engine and you have a personal brand problem which is much harder to deal with than any official or corporate database will ever be.

Oh and just to make it worse, you have just been stitched up by your mates, not some organisation out to make money…..

You have been warned !!

I am not known for being observant, in fact quite the opposite, I normally miss the bleedin obvious. However over the past week I have seen the same black BMW parked up the road from where I live (not facing my house I may add)?? several times, with one or two bloke sat inside, making notes about something they can see.
So what are they, I wonder who or what they are???.

• Bailiffs: I doubt it, they did not look like thug type, , and why come back at least three times.
• Spooks: I doubt it, they are too obvious
• Police/CID: could be , but again I doubt it, they are too obvious.

So I reckon they could be private investigators looking at adultery or medical insurance fraud, or benefits agency, investigating benefit fraud.

But I guess I will never find out for sure

[UPDATE]

It was there again last night wed 6th may 2009