Post 20020511

11^th May 2002, 16:14.

Eeep, it’s 16:14.

I wasn’t expecting that just yet. Anyway, I’m afraid my plans for the new
website are slightly on hold. This is due to a mistake I made many moons ago.
For some inexplicable reason, at some point in the past I set the install medium
on bursar to be the wrong version of SuSE Linux.

Then, much later, after I’d forgotten I’d done it, or indeed why I’d done it
I installed quite a lot of stuff, using Yast2, which popped up in its usual way
and said “oi, this is *allll* out of date, shall I fix it?” and foolishly I said
yes.

Now, having managed to get Yast2 at least apparently working again, although
in a rather cludgy sort of way, I felt quite smug and left the machine in a
state which I thought was, well, if not well was acceptible by my standards
(i.e. it appeared to be working and it’s been up for 26 days….so it can’t be
that sickly ;-)

Unfortunately today I discovered that it’s really not that well. Yes, further
checking shows that although Yast2 appears to load and run, it doesn’t
*actually* work.

*sigh*

So, I think that in the interests of having a machine which actually works as
opposed to one which quite clearly doesn’t I’ll probably nuke it fairly soon.
Which is, to be frank, a good thing, since I broke the printing system many many
moons ago (bloody HP).

Anyway, I guess I can work on the look of the site rather more. It’s still
very rough, but I think I know what it’ll look like :-)

Yet again, I’m intrigued to know who it is who reads this site. I mean,
initally it was obviously basically my friends who wanted to know what was going
on in my weird, twisted little mind – because I’m not very good at expressing
myself verbally and I tend to, well, fuck it up, would probably be the best way
of putting it.

Whereas on here, well, I still screw up quite often but not nearly as often
as I do when it comes to speaking how I’m feeling. I guess I’m also better at
describing how I’m feeling in writing rather than in speech – probably because I
can think about it more – and delete stuff – which you can’t do in speech.

And it doesn’t matter if I get stuck in the middle of a sentance, or forget
what the next word is I can just stop and then carry on later.

I don’t intend, incidentally, for this to become a debate on politics/rise of
the right in Europe/etc. I just thought I’d comment on what Snappygirl
said after my 4^th May entry….

“I am not that kind of racist but i know why BNP won three seats, cos the
voters just fed up with lots of foreigner come over here to stay UK instead
other european counties.”

*sigh*

I know why the BNP got in, and it’s not actually the fact that they got in
that bothers me. Well, obviously that bothers me enormously, scares me witless
actually

What bothers me is that everyone is playing down the importance of these
results. Because quite simply there are clearly major issues that need to be
tackled, both in these areas where the BNP did well – and elsewhere.

The BNP’s manifesto is an impressive piece of populist policy making, and is
clearly designed to appeal to as many people as possible – and it scares me.
Because I recognise it. I recognise it from the translations of the Nazis.

I’m going to leave you now with a couple of lines that scare me:

“The British people were never asked if they wanted a multi-cultural
society, immigration was forced on us undemocratically and against the clear
wishes of the majority.”

there’s more

—

Kate E

Comments:

 
Tam at Sun May 12 12:12:15 2002 said:

The BNP are really scary :( I really hope they don’t become any more popular. I know what it’s like when people who hate other groups of people get control – not good!

 

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