Random burblings since 1999
OK, fixed the counter code.
Ohh and whilst I remember, and I might post this on a discussion group somewhere, how many people who actively use web resources are Technical Communicators, e.g. people who are not design websites but information products? Just curious. I’ve also just remember that I meant to check up on the progress of a Help standard for web. Can’t remember who was chairing it, but it’ll be listed somewhere on the W3C site.
OK, I have a favour to ask. Can everyone who visited recently, please visit again tomorrow? Lost my counter settings, just before Zeldman linked to me. Typical, I might have gotten into double figures for the week…
Bulger email details posted. Feel free to send me your comments.
Have started to recode the site – shouldn’t be any obvious changes as I’m trying to make sure it is as cross-browser as possible (toying with getting rid of the frames, but that’s too big a job for the moment…). Also added new permalinks in case I every say anything THAT interesting… LOL.
I was sent an email petition today, I will post full details later on, but suffice to say that I thought it biased and inaccurate and doubt it’s ability to hold much sway. The idea was to present a list of millions of people who didn’t agree with her ruling, to Lady Justice Butler-Sloss. However as the email content was, thin, I declined to add my name. One thing it didn’t even touch on, amongst inaccurate reports of what actually happened, was the following: Bulger killing
Not everything is black and white.
I was sent an email by a well meaning friend. My initial reaction was ‘Yeah! I agree with that….’. However after reading it again I started thinking, hold on… not sure if I agree with this. Here is the email, included with my reply first.
—–Original Message—–
From: Gordon McLean
Sent: 22 January 2001 10:40
Sorry I can’t do this.
Much as I agree with the general feeling that these boys should be punished
I can’t leap on this kind of moralistic bandwagon. I doubt very much that
this is as black and white as is painted (nothing ever is). I have no doubt
the boys knew they were doing wrong, but to what level was their
understanding? The email below seems a tad hysterical and presents no
evidence (I do not count – ‘One paper even stated…’ as evidence). I also
have not seen any evidence concerning paint, batteries, or leaving him on a
railway track. Is this a virtual lynch mob?
“If Robert and Jon could be so evil at 10, imagine what they could do as
adults?” Do we have reason to state this? Is it not possible they have been
rehabilitated? They, as children, probably stand a better chance of
rehabilitation than adults as there minds are still open enough to accept
new ways of thinking.
I DO AGREE with the general sentiment, but do not agree (and never will)
with this kind of knee-jerk reaction. I will be contacting Lady Justice
Butler-Sloss with my own message, it will support the main aims of this
email (namely to ensure that the public voice is being heard) but won’t be
putting my name to this.
I have written about this on my own site – www.snowgoon.co.uk
See also – http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_992000/992233.stm
Apologies if this upsets – I have the same agenda as you, I just don’t value
this approach.
Gordon
—–Original Message—–
On February 12, 1993 a small boy who was to turn three in March was taken
from a shopping mall in Liverpool by two 10 year old boys. Jamie Bulger
walked away from his mother for only a second and Jon Venables took his hand
and led him out of the mall with his friend Robert Thompson. They took Jamie
on a walk for over 2 and a half miles, along the way stopping
every now and again to torture the poor little boy who was crying constantly
for his mommy. Finally they stopped at a railway track where they brutally
kicked him and threw stones at him and rubbed paint in his eyes and pushed
batteries up his anus. They then left his beaten small body on the tracks so
a train could run him over to hide the mess they had created. These two
boys, even being boys understood what they did was wrong, hence trying to
make it look like an accident. This week Lady Justice Butler-Sloss has
awarded the two boys anonymity for the rest of their lives when they leave
custody with new identities.
We cannot let this happen. They will also leave early this year only serving
just over half of their sentence. One paper even stated that Robert may go
on to University. They are getting away with their crime. They need to pay,
and we have to do something to make them pay for their horrific crime. They took Jamie’s
life violently away, and in return they get a new life. Please add your
name and location to the list and forward to friends and family. Please copy
this e-mail instead of forwarding so we do not get at the beginning of
sentences. If you are the 200th person to sign please forward this e-mail
to – cust.ser.cs@gtnet.gov.uk
attention of Lady Justice Butler-Sloss.
the list over again and sent to your friends and family. The
Love-Bug virus took less that 72 hours to reach the world. I hope this one
does too.
We need to protect our family and friends from creatures like Robert and
Jon. One day they may be living next to you and your small children without
your knowledge. If Robert and Jon could be so evil at 10, imagine what they
could do as adults?
Uncle’s birthday, drinks, dinner, games – nice relaxed family Sunday. Also got a plant they don’t want any more, 4ft tall fig type thing, quite nice. Watched X-Men at friends last night, forgotten how good it was, think I’ll dig out some more of Bryan Singers stuff. Also caught up with an old friend (literally…tee hee) that we haven’t seen since 1999. Scary. Made personal promise to myself, to keep in touch more. Need to remember that my life is more than my work and immediate family (I do know this, just keep forgetting it…).
Just realising why my legs and arms are sore. Visited the gym the on Friday, testing out a gammy knee to see if it will stand up to 5-a-side… maybe not this week… bummer. Can’t stand the gym, although it was OK on Friday as I had the place to myself and could play my music instead of the usual thump-thump-thump dance stuff that normally leaks out the door.
Note to self: FIND A BASKETBALL TEAM TO PLAY FOR!!