Nope, not a “life is pants” post.

I’ve always been a boxer man myself. Thanks to an un-planned trip to Nottingham, after going to a wedding in Colchester (600 mile round trip anyone?)… I found myself with the need to purchase a change of clothes (well… pants, socks and a Tshirt anyway). Not wanting to waste much time, I did a trolley dash type thing through H&M.

Spotted a nice T-shirt, winner. Grabbed a 4 pack o’ socks, score and what I thought was boxers, result.

Nope. Some weird, man pant thing!

Initial disgust turned into reluctant acceptance… and then surprise as I actually quite liked them.

On reflection, its not really that cool to have been wearing Marks n Sparks boxers since forever… the transformation from geeky kid to growed up adult cool man is almost complete!

Ggggggggggggggaaaaaaaaaaaa

Religion. Yawn…. yeah yeah, I bet you read this sentence then you’ll stop, fair enough, I probably would… but I dare you delve deeper into my mind…

The Bournemouth Daily Echo online posted a story today called Fast Friends about the local mosque opening its doors for an open day.

This in itself, wasn’t that controversial an article… but, sadly it attracted comments from the BNP who have been very active in the comments on the echo website recently.

In most cases, the BNP comments go un-challenged, for some reason I felt compelled to reply… as soon as I had done so, I noticed the article dis-appeared. (At time of posting the direct link still works, but try the front page and the article has gone)

Shame on you Bournemouth Daily Echo!! The slightest hint of controversial debate and they pull the whole article (most Bmth Council stories now have comments blocked, to prevent the inevitable comment wars), I think that is a real pity.

Sure, I could understand the times they blocked comments when people were discussing an on-going police investigation (to leave them up could of left them open to a liable or prejudicial law suit) or the times when some offensive/racist comments were posted.

Why do most people find it so hard to understand that Islam, like christianity has different sects? The more fundamental/hardline wahhabi/islamist beliefs are just as different to most (more spiritual) Muslims as the Mormons are to most Christians.

The problem with any religion, is its interpretation by man.

“Bas” (from the BNP) may just as well of asked any Christian to explain why it’s acceptable to rape 14year old girls in multiple marriages? Or closer to his beliefs perhaps, why it was deemed acceptable to massacre the Jews in WWII?

Recommended reading of the day: The Islamist by Ed Husain

…for the record, I re-confirm my faith as a confirmed Pastafarian.

No really it does.

Give it 12 months and no-one will use facebook anymore.

Remember Friends re-united…?

how quickly that became… soooo dotcom dated…

then myspace… which had a more musical niche and was THE place to network with friends and pretend you knew/interacted with “celebs” and musical heros…

Hi5… Tagged… bebo… snore.

now the big “web2.0″ darling is facebook… bla bla bla. YAWN.

I have 1 big issue with all of these sites, they don’t connect with any others. The reason the “get Luke on facebook” campaign will most likely fail is that I don’t see the benefit in them anymore, sure I could spend hours trying to reconnect with the same people I reconnected with on FR or MS… I could spend hours customizing my page to match my other online pages… or uploads pics there… I won’t though.

If you want to make a mint on web 2.0 stocks, find a company that connects social networking sites together, wait for them to grow ridiculously huge and then be bought up by a big company, then sell. They won’t make any real revenue by doing so, but google/newscorp/microsoft or someone will still pay a sheeeeedload for them.

YouTube… hmmm… now thats a bit different, I’ll start using that more n more (or if it gets sued to hell, then move onto whatever takes its place) for business and personal vlogs… although it does have profile pages, friends and messaging.. I think its a different platform more than other SN sites.

*rant ends*

Went for a long old spin on the bike yesterday… bleedin glad I did, weather turned to shite today… adios summer o’ fun. Hola autumn of change.

Took a couple of pics from the far end of Hengistbury head.
(towards the isle of wight, across the bay towards Bournemouth and up toward mudeford spit)

The inside out Dorset art event thing was in the lower gardens this week, took a trip through there after a lovely meal at Zizzi last night.

Bit trippy… and surprisingly warm, highlight had to be the dude playing ambient music surrounded by candles. Nice to see a lot of people (it was really busy) out, wandering through an art event… even the group of “whoa man, that bits like lord of the rings innit” pikeys seemed to enjoy it!