I hope someone has fun with this.

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/domestic_politics/child+benefit+claims+details+lost/1072647

Well, I would ;)

Apparantly, the discs are password-protected. OH NOES, I WISH I COULD HAX.

Pff, I hope someone actually has these, and is using them as we speak, that would be so good.

B.

This week's last.fm

Nothing particularly new this week. Listened to more Bad Religion than usual, but that's all.

Why I hate scene.

The scene community is a disgrace to music, and here is my reason for hating it.

I have recently joined a band, not particularly my type of music, but at least they were getting gigs. One of them asked me to make a myspace thing for it, so I went about it. It got finished, so I started adding my real life friends, and one of them said this to me via msn, and it angered me so.

Is this what being a musician has came to? Becoming fucking famous on fucking myspace? I wish myspace was never created, it's the cancer that's slowly but surely killing good music.

B.

London and last.fm

This week's last.fm weekly artists. Discovered Blaqk Audio, a side project of AFI men Davey Havok and Jade Pudget. Sounds like Billy Corgan's solo album, or even Depeche Mode at a stretch.

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London wasn't bad, actually. It smelled like shit, but otherwise, it was just like a huge Glasgow. Unfortunately I didn't have time to see everything I would have liked to, but I did get to visit Trafalgar Square, and a lot of unimportant but still nice stuff on the train.

It was all going well until we missed the last flight from Stansted to Prestwick, so I ended up in a hotel for the night. I would've been happy to stay in the airport ma mam wasn't having any of it.

Otherwise, not a bad 2 or so days away, I'll post the few pictures I took soon.

last.fm

As you'll soon find out, I'm a huuuge music fan, and I have a last.fm profile (www.last.fm/user/bartaci, hint hint) to keep up to speed with new events and all my plays throughout the week, so every monday I'm going to make a new post with my weekly top 10 artists.

This week:



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In other news, tomorrow I have to go up to Glasgow to get an adult passport. Why don't you just send away for it, I hear you ask. Well, I apparently need an interview for my first adult passport to prove I'm who I say I am, and I also need a person of legal authority to give their passport number to my applic- No, I'm ot going on a rant.

But I will update again tomorrow when I get back to see how it goes, and if I end up fucking up the interview, it just shows how much more the system knows about you than you do.

bartaci.

This is me.

That is me, on a ferry. It was windy.

I'm just 6ft. I have dyed blue-black hair, (apparantly) shockingly blue eyes, size 13 feet, and I weigh around 11-12 stone. Pretty much average for a boy my age. I'll post more soon, probably.

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On a completely different note, has anyone heard about the car hire company, Eurocar I think, that are taking thumbprints instead of official documents proving you are who you say you are?
Sure, this might reduce the number of stolen hire cars, but who's to say the company wont send the details on to other companies, or even worse, the government and police? Orwell was right, we're turning into a completely controlled state. Everything we have is going to be bio-metrically imprinted with everything about us.

When I was younger, I dreamed of a world like that, I thought it would be so convenient, but now I can see the problems that can come about from this. The idea is superb, but it's essentially invasion of privacy, and I can't think of any reason why it would be supported.

Apparently it prevents terrorism. How the hell is it supposed to prevent terrorism? Have your brain scanned to detect potential terrorist genes and have this data implanted onto the chip? This doesn't prevent terrorism, this is fucking mind control.

This isn't prevention. Prevention is making the pigs do some actual work, so that this kind of thing isn't necessary.

John Smeaton is a real life Action Man. And he's Scottish, represent.

What's it like?

What's it like in your part of the world?

How's your local area?

What are the people like?

If your area is as depressing in mine, then you'll understand what it's like here. People walk by you, frowning at you, as if you're a mutant or something. Unless you know these people, you're in serious danger for your life. Just as well I've lived in this part of my tiny town all my life. I'd say overall, there is a population of about 2,500, the majority of which are complete wasters.
What are the people like where you live?

The actual physical state of my area? Decrepit. Disgraceful. I say nuke it and the people and start all over again. There's an extreme lack of any real local monuments other than ridiculously un-professional pieces of graffiti, proclaiming god only knows what. By the way, I think I'm atheist.
So what's your local area like?

I love where I live. It's a thing of wonder, and should honestly be preserved for all eternity to show what the absolute, bottom-of-the-barrel, detritus wasters that the world has.

But then again, has anyone seen America recently? Fuck that.