Joe's Jottings

• And now we have Ripley driving the machine to save her kids…Aliens covered, then. #drwho #
• Oh please – no lamp-post but a lighthouse? Narnia alert! #drwho #fb #
• Cs lewis's lawyers may need to be informed – evacuees, old house, through portal to wintry forest? #drwho #

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• #Havel great guy but we should never forget Dubcek. Loosening the reigns of communist power in 68 was a heroic gesture. #fb #

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• Heads up in s6 area – black ice on pavements. #fb #
• OK – anyone having problems with Plusnet lastnight / this morning? #
• OK folks – looking for some new work. Need .NET / PHP projects, and need it quickly as funds are thin right now! #

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• At @OccupySheffield meeting and greeting – good fun! #fb #

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• Just visited @OccupySheffield and found a very friendly bunch. #fb #

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• Very sad re. @giles_fraser but clearly a man of Christian principle and an inspiration to many of us in CofE in reply to giles_fraser #
• Hit a deadline today with a prototype – worked very well in demo and we're going to take the prototype and do stuff! Yay! #

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• Trading Places – what we all want to see happen to stockbrokers… #

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…which many will recognise as the opening line of the Beatles song, “A Day in the Life”.  Unfortunately, I had to change the next line to ‘…and was as angry as Hell’ rather than ‘About a lucky man who made the grade’.

Today, on Westminster Bridge in London, people protesting against Government Plans to ‘reform’ the NHS are gathering in an event called, on Twitter, #blockthebridge.  It appears that a few thousand people are gathering, and at the time of writing the protest was peaceful.  Although you might be ignorant of this protest unless you’re following it on social media like Twitter and Facebook, becasue neither the BBC or Sky News have seen fit to report on it.

After all, there is a more important story happening..Sir Paul McCartney is getting married! Yes! We’ve had the interviews with the waiting fans, know that Sir Paul and his bride to be went for a workout this morning, know the colour of the wedding car and it’s just popped up as ‘Breaking News’ on the BBC News channel where we have live footage of a car parked in a driveway waiting to drive off.

Quite honestly, it’s shameful – McCartney and (on Sky) dead pop singer Michael Jackson have managed to provide some suitably anodyne and irrelevant ‘OK’ or ‘Hello’ style celeb puff pieces to cover up that people are fighting for the future of the NHS.  It’s either piss poor editorial decision making or censorship, and given the coverage not given to the Wall Street occupation in the last week I’m going with censorship.

Oddly enough, it would have been John Lennon’s birthday today, and I like to think that as the co-writer of the song I quoted above he would have been tempted to go and join the protesters rather than attend the wedding, had he still been with us – were he not already occupying Wall Street, of course.

And in case you’re interested, the BBC are now showing a bus pulling up at a Register Office….

• The revolution begins at home – Opinion – Al Jazeera English http://t.co/WwXdAorZ via @ajenglish #
• Shame on BBC and Sky not reporting protests about NHS bill on Westminster Bridge #blockthebridge #blockthebill #fb – censorship. #
• Jobs was utterley ruthless – @wisemonkeyash – and that's how he did what he did. #
• Sunday 9th October is International Day of Prayer for the life of Yousef #Nadarkhani http://t.co/HWlrDKzC – please r/t and pray. #fb #
• “@HLMenckenBot: The average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe. – quite a bit of truth in that. #
• Kind of scary – Global Financial Meltdown within the month? http://t.co/xPKeHyc2 #
• Take a look at Hillsborough Forum on Natwest Communityforce. Vote for HF to win £6,000. Go on VOTE!!!!

  http://t.co/N7Ewxneq #

• Seven things you should know if you're starting out programming http://t.co/r96iOjMF via @guardian #
• My economic prediction is stagflation. Been saying this for months and given 5% inflation and effective zero growth, I recon I'm right. #fb #
• #ff @harry_moseley – don't normally do ff, but this is a good cause. God bless you and yours, Harry. #
• Nice tribute at http://www.apple.com. #fb #
• Bugger. Steve Jobs has died. Whilst never a Jobs fanboi he was a truly iconic figure. God bless him. #fb #
• Hobbling to the Rawson! #

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• The revolution begins at home – Opinion – Al Jazeera English http://t.co/WwXdAorZ via @ajenglish #
• Shame on BBC and Sky not reporting protests about NHS bill on Westminster Bridge #blockthebridge #blockthebill #fb – censorship. #
• Jobs was utterley ruthless – @wisemonkeyash – and that's how he did what he did. #
• Sunday 9th October is International Day of Prayer for the life of Yousef #Nadarkhani http://t.co/HWlrDKzC – please r/t and pray. #fb #
• “@HLMenckenBot: The average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe. – quite a bit of truth in that. #
• Kind of scary – Global Financial Meltdown within the month? http://t.co/xPKeHyc2 #
• Take a look at Hillsborough Forum on Natwest Communityforce. Vote for HF to win £6,000. Go on VOTE!!!!

  http://t.co/N7Ewxneq #

• Seven things you should know if you're starting out programming http://t.co/r96iOjMF via @guardian #
• My economic prediction is stagflation. Been saying this for months and given 5% inflation and effective zero growth, I recon I'm right. #fb #
• #ff @harry_moseley – don't normally do ff, but this is a good cause. God bless you and yours, Harry. #
• Nice tribute at http://www.apple.com. #fb #
• Bugger. Steve Jobs has died. Whilst never a Jobs fanboi he was a truly iconic figure. God bless him. #fb #
• Hobbling to the Rawson! #

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