As you can see, this site has a new design & the back-end software has been updated.

 

 

Couple of things that've been on the news recently...

 

First, the Venables business - he probably should be identified, as long as it doesn't affect any trial - although knowing the pathetic terms paedophiles get it'd probably be better just to recall him indefinitely as a danger and forget the trial.

 

However, the mother of the kid he killed has no more right to know than anyone else. He's not gone back to the original crime's location etc - nothing he's done has affected her so there is no reason for her to know more than anyone else. People seem to expect that they are more important than anything else days, or that they require special treatment and such. Which leads to...

 

Locked in energy contracts.

 

Apparently, energy prices have been falling recently and people are complaining that their fixed contracts are remaining high. They signed the contracts - they hoped to get one over on the energy firms by getting cheap prices whilst the firms lost out and the rest of us had to pay. Whether that happened or not - you took a risk, it didn't pay off - hard luck. It's all a method of gambling.

 

My parents have a fixed rate mortgage. Since then the interest rate has collapsed and it's a pretty poor rate. I have a friend in the same boat. They hoped to win and lost out - there's nothing they can do either.

 

People don't seem to want to own up to the responsibilities of their own actions. No-one forced them to take the locked in contracts - they did it on the hope of winning. They wouldn't be complaining now if the prices had gone up, or no one would be listening to the firms when they complained that the rates they have given were costing them money (not that I'm on their side either).

 

It's an example of everything that's wrong with society these days - "I'll take everything I can and then complain when it comes back at me". What happened to accepting the outcome of your choices?

 

Rant over, shall be posting back to this a bit more often as things are still going badly and this is my only "output" now.