Thankfully energy saving masters Enigin know exactly how to make trade shows sound interesting. Read the article and find out what Enigin have in store for us with their new version of their ace invention: the Eniscope.

As an adult I realize that trade shows are a good thing, of course (though I still have my doubts about any that involve camping–). Especially trade shows which promote an awareness of global warming and what we as a people can do to prevent it from doing any more damage. More importantly, they allow the general public meet the people behind the companies, like Enigin, who are playing a huge part in making technology more efficient and less environmentally destructive. This can only be a good thing: more education will hopefully show everyone that each and every one of us are responsible for our own carbon footprint, however small and irrelevant appearing it may be.

When new laws are introduced they need to be properly thought about. Experience should tell our law-makers that they need to go over their regulations with a fine tooth comb before implementing them. There is always a clever defence available that can find the smallest holes, and people like Clarissa Dickson-Wright can always afford to pay for the craftiest and cleverest solicitors to get them off of the hook.

Meanwhile, the animals are still being hunted much the same as they were before the ‘hunting ban’ came into place. I wonder how long it will take for someone to sort out this ridiculous law?

Personally I have always found it interesting that people have such a varied outlook on how animals should be treated. Some people are inclined to hunt animals, then go home to their daughters who are dressing up the family dog in baby girls clothing and showering it with affection. Possibly not the type of affection that the dog wanted, but the point is care nonetheless in the best way they know how.

I just wish that we would be able to regain some of that child-like innocence in the policy makers today, and who knows where we would be. Although I do hope that with this newly created, and very politically young cabnet, some laws (including those on animal rights) may be passed with the care and consideration that a small child would show to a pet.

The pig: a great big pink thing of a creature that holds a special place in all of our hearts, even people who really, really, aren’t in to loving animals. For some it’s as bacon (awesome) and for some it’s as the cute oinky thing that roams the farm. But does the humble pig have a more sinister agenda? Is it being controlled for means that would shock and horrify the most of us? According to the post it does, and it’s not appreciated!

Politics, eh? It doesn’t matter what you’re talking about, it’ll have something to do with it. And it’s no secret that for years we have been lulled in to a sense of false security by fun-looking characters who, on the surface, seem to be merely for the entertainment of children. Look at Mr Blobby? Who can look at his great big spotty head and say that isn’t sinister and wrong?!

It’s a dirty game, I suppose, and people will be people. And you really can’t avoid it without literally becoming a hermit. Everyone has walked down the street and felt more sorry for the vagrant with the child, and more than a few have given money to those with a smile that seems authentic.

But, despite all this sinisterness, there are of course good things to be said for lively figures such as Blobby. Nobody can argue that he hasn’t done his fair share of fund-raising, or that his cumbersome stumbling walk and ranting shout of “Blobby blobby blobby!”hasn’t livened up their day a bit.

How on this earth were we living without cell phones, I cannot fathom! Seriously, for me, my cell phone is the greatest gift from the almighty himself! While a cell phone is the best thing that has ever happened to me, the Apple iphone 3gs beats them all hollow! This heavenly device has me completely smitten by it. Believe it or not, I actually dream of the day I’ll get that shiny and sleek handset in my hands. While most people might think I’m nuts about just another phone, they don’t realize that that I’m talking about the best in the business here.

When the iphone 3g was released on 19^th June 2009, along with millions of people I was ecstatic. Though it has been almost a year since that day, I’m still trying to save every penny from all my work from home jobs just to possess this black beauty. This beast of a device has driven to the extent that I keep reading all updates, news and even content remotely related to it! Lord, when am I ever going to lay my hands on my own, personal iphone 3gs? While my acquaintances have declared me a hopeless case and have washed their hands of me, the loyal community of over 50 million 3gs users is of great help. The internet has made it possible for me to locate and stay in touch with current users who provide accurate information related to my dream device.

Not very surprisingly, it’s not only me who is pining for the iphone but there are many like me who fell in love at first sight with the 3gs. I solemnly request all such empathetic readers to pray that I succeed in my endeavor of procuring the iphone 3gs as soon as possible or else my tech freak soul shall not rest in peace!

Beware, I am about to write about something that, if you are of a certain age (you’ll soon see if you are or not), may send your mind screaming back to days gone by spent having intense paper-based fun. Memories of a fantastic game. Memories of the infamous noughts & crosses!

I don’t think I need explain how the game works, need I? But if I must here it is: you make a grid on paper and then take it in turns drawing noughts and crosses until someone has a line. They win. Easy.

Now, you would think that everyone knows this game, but here’s the horrifying truth–they don’t! On the bus the other day I was playing with myself (playing noughts and crosses with myself, that is; a long and boring journey) and a gang of youths said “hey mister! What are you doing?”

“Playing noughts and crosses of course,” I said, and under my breath, “obviously.”

One of the youths said, “looks rubbish, my game thing is better than that!”

He showed me his game thing and I had to admit that it was better than an age old paper-based game after all.

But I didn’t leave it there. I felt that these youths were missing out, so I started to teach them how to play noughts and crosses. The result? They loved it! The last thing I saw as I stepped off the bus – a real Comedy show – was one of them threatening the other! Now, if that isn’t the hallmark of a noughts and crosses enthusiast, what on earth is?

The main concerns center mainly on the suspicion that the program is being used as a means of spying on Muslims in general. A newspaper report has stated that the police has been encouraging community workers o give all the information they can on Muslims and using this as a means to grant funding. The government claims that the program is one of, if not the, best in the world today and is so designed to ensure public safety and protect Muslim rights.

Some £140 million has been channeled into this program and hopefully it is money well spent. The challenge here is for many people to realize that most of those who are doing suicide bombings in Britain are Muslims so the government has to take some action in an effort to quell the rise of extremism in the country. Unfortunately anything they do that is not to the Muslims liking, whether real or imagined, is going to be criticized and scoffed at.

Muslims in Britain must realize that most people who are non Muslims see them all as potential terrorists and that’s just the way it is. So if someone is looking at a house for sale in Staffordshire chance are they will ask the real estate agent if Muslims live in the area. The problem is that the Muslims are not doing anything substantial to change this perception. With the absence of any real change in behaviour people become fearful and act accordingly.

Whether or not the program has to do with spying at least the government is trying to do something about terrorism in the country. What are the Muslims doing in this respect?

This is on my mind mainly because it was my birthday the other day, and my boyfriend gave me a really lovely card. It had kittens fighting on the front, and I adored it from the moment I laid eyes on it. And then I opened it and read the message, and I was still smiling–But then I moved my eyes lower and saw it where that word should be–The word. Instead of the L word was xxx! I swear the exclamation mark almost broke my stupid romantic heart–

Then it was just awkward, of course. I didn’t want to talk (I was crying) and my boyfriend, bless him, just wanted to know what was wrong. And I tried I really did. I tried to tell him what was wrong, and it just sounded stupid and girly. But, when I finally did tell him, he smiled at me. The evening turned out fine in the end, and after that he promised he’d try harder.

Yes people, we now live in the age of high-speed, high-tech information; coming at us from all angles, twenty-four-hours-per-day. As such many businesses have adopted the ‘chuck as many complicated words at the consumer as is metaphorically possible’ ethos, and because of this horse insurance is now known as equine insurance and having your carpet cleaned is known, in some circles, as ‘initiating a hygienically sound, no-nonsense approach to extricating all the grime and filth from your precious carpet’. Why! Why does it have to be this way?! Why does it all have to be so ludicrously overdone? That’s the really big question of the millennium. Forget why we are on this Earth and whether or not extra-terrestrial life exists: I want to know why we have swapped the decent and easy-to-read language of old for stupidly complex and difficult to read information that helps nobody and nothing.

I suppose we can’t have it all and that’s the point. If we want to have high-tech products, technology and new more efficient ways to live our life, we will have to accept that language will also change as we go. Simply, we have come too far and we can’t pick and choose what we keep and what we throw away: we have to take it all and do our best with what we get.

As most of you know it was recently my birthday, and my friend Cynthia gave me a chemical skin peel as a gift. Now I have to say, I have no idea what she was trying to convey me; but after I got over the relative shock of how strange the present was, I went and realized that it was actually quite enjoyable. I would suggest it to anyone!

I think we must be on the same page about now.

So, there are other more complex reasons why dunking biscuits in tea is a criminal misdemeanor. Contamination is one: what’s happening when you dunk a biscuit is that the tea is becoming infected with biscuit taste. Think it’s not a problem? Well, you’d be wrong. Through many years of abuse, tea flavour has changed and the generations have learned to accept this new flavour as correct. That means that when they taste tea the pure way it should be made, they think there’s something wrong with it!