Tweets on 2009-08-10

  • Lots of comedy misreadings tonight including sheep that fade away and whoring angels. #
  • There's an order of service here for a funeral for a man with a middle name of Lobjoit. #
  • Managing to log in to twitter for the first time in days. #
  • What to do first when I get home? Play with cats? Open post? Start laundry? Install personal copy of @dabr? #
  • @willhowells so it is. Huzzah! Sound the trumpets! #
  • Ooh, Steve the Kitten is appreciably (if not really visibly) bigger in just a week. #
  • Interesting. If you copy and paste from the Daily Mail, the clipboard includes an URL with a tracking ID. #

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Extraordinary stats about snooping

Kudos to Chris Huhne, the Lib Dem Shadow Home Secretary, for garnering excellent coverage for the awful statistics about state sponsored snooping.

The Daily Mail’s ire is justified:

The number of Big Brother snooping missions by police, town halls and other public bodies has soared by 44 per cent in two years.

Last year there were 504,073 new cases – an average of 1,381 a day. It is the equivalent of one adult in 78 coming under state-sanctioned surveillance.

One adult in 78? I wonder who it is on my street. Which member of the Lib Dem Group in the House of Lords is it?

Obligatory Chris quote:

It cannot be a justified response to the problems we face in this country that the state is spying on half a million people a year.

The Government forgets that George Orwell’s 1984 was a warning, not a blueprint. We are still a long way from living under the Stasi – but it beggars belief that it is necessary to spy on one in every 78 adults.

LDV has been blogging about issues like this for some time – you can find a list here.

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Tweets on 2009-08-06

  • Remembering why I don't wear these shoes very often. No arch supports. Very tiring. #
  • Words from the anthem include "with parted lips and outstretched hands" – which just puts me in mind of Everlasting Felicity again. #
  • Have been reading Robert Wilson novels so thought it might be nice to go for tapas. Ended up spending a king's ransom on nibbles. #
  • RT @Nottm_Contemp: Only 100 days before we open today #

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Tweets on 2009-08-05

  • @scottm it's awful, too quick, deus ex machina: the H G Wells equivalent of "Microbes, LOL! kthxbai." #
  • http://twitpic.com/cr6t1 – Wander around a cathedral dressed like this and people ask you awkward questions. #
  • http://twitpic.com/cr6sz – Wander around a cathedral dressed like this and people ask you awkward questions. #
  • @nottstwestival I'm out of town this week, sorry. #
  • Sitting through the Eton Choral Course quiz. #
  • Weird vivid dream along the lines of first Alien film. #
  • Someone called Everlasting Felicity in tonight's psalms. #
  • http://twitpic.com/cuiwx – Good grief. Unexpectedly large piece of cake (with my hand for scale) #

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Tweets on 2009-08-04

  • @libdemlocalgov not me 🙂 not this week anyway. in reply to libdemlocalgov #
  • http://twitpic.com/cmdi1 – Durham Cathedral's Song School in the attic over the cloisters and behind the clock. #
  • Coffee and walnut cake. Unfloured walnuts sink to the bottom of the cake. #
  • Today's music is manky Howells and manky Chilcott, and there are 8 basses. Might feign illness. #
  • Today's bizarre #earworm from nowhere: Billy Joel "She's always a woman to me." Maybe it has the same chords as the Chilcott. #
  • This caff is either under-staffed or over-customered. #

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Tweets on 2009-08-02

  • @adamrio Still at a loose end? This might interest you http://tr.im/v3Nq #
  • Ooh, congrats @miketd, Nottingham blogger who's going to be on Anthony Gormley's column http://tr.im/v3RG #
  • @willhowells is he trying to make them happy or injure them? #
  • Dear google ads – I might have a bigger belly than some full-term pregnant women, but that doesn't mean I'm in the market for maternity wear #
  • Right. Going to do a spot of ironing whilst watching Ironman from @lovefilm. That irony enough for you? #
  • Grrr! Where have I put my bog bag? #
  • @richardbooth the abyss isn't much of an answer. #
  • On Nottm station. Horrid new ticket barrier. Being harrangued every 30secs by robot woman accusing us of terrorism or smoking. #
  • @lordbonkers surely 2 + 7 is 9 in hex as well as base 10? #
  • http://twitpic.com/chxsj – Changing in Chesterfield for Durham. #

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