Posting as a grassroots activist who has been backing Charles to stay as leader, I now say it is time to go.
It’s now obvious that Charles hasn’t had the support of most of his front bench for almost a year, and that he has been ignoring their requests to stand down. It’s a shame that the gang of 11 didn’t have the guts to send their letter before Christmas or call for a vote of confidence before now.
Instead as a party we are left with a leadership election of one, who will have no shadow cabinet.
Hopefully by Monday morning we will see Charles stand down and Ming, Hughes and Oaten put themselves forward to start what we will an exciting leadership contest.
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Important
If there is only one thing you do this year, it has to be this.
One of the worst vulnerabilities in Microsoft has been found and it is really really easy to exploit and be caught.
Please download and install the temporary fix from this nice bloke’s blog
Hex blog: Windows WMF Metafile Vulnerability HotFix
More info here:
F-Secure, Microsoft and US Cert
Baby Peter
This weekend Heather and I went to Welsh Wales to see Sally from the Valley.
This is Peter (and me), say ‘hello’!
Peter is cute and only 5 weeks old.
Heather wouldn’t let me take him home 🙁
More pictures on flickr
Buncefield Photos
As I was going to Hemel to see my Mum for Boxing Day, I had to visit Maylands Avenue to see what it looked liked.
I’ve taken photos with my rubbish P910i and uploaded them to flickr which I’m just trying (instead of my own photo gallery script I wrote 5 years ago).
I was suprised to see about 50 people taking photos, but then I was one of them. Driving past Woodhall Farm, a large number of the flats had boarded up windows.
And speaking to Luke, his Christmas wages were last months basic pay as the outsourced payroll department was affected.
China bar blaze kills 25
Not the most exciting headline, or news story to be truthful. However the BBC have been telling me about it since 2am yesterday. Almost every hour via email.
My inbox has 51 messages (and still counting) from the BBC News Alert system, which clearly has a bug.
As a blackberry user this is bloody annoying as my phone keeps beeping to tell me exactly the same thing.
At least I’ve set it up to turn off during the night.
F-off: Whilst writing this post 2 more messages have arrived.
Thank you Santa
I would like to thank Santa for this wonderful present this Christmas.
I love you lots
Poor people of Hemel
First they have a large fire which the Christmas on the iMP
No need to worry that I might miss the best bits of the BBC this Christmas as I’m on the iMP trial. Which has now been extended until the end of February (why does it have to end? 
)
So I can legally download Dr Who on Christmas day and then watch it over and over again until the new year. 
A response from Sainsburys
The following is the correspondence between myself and Sainsburys
From: Ryan Cullen
To:
Sent: 8 Dec 2005 20:40It was recently noted that 10-20 people have managed to get Jerry Springer the Opera banned from your stores.
As a regular shopper and a former staff member, could I therefor ask that you should remove the Daily Mail immediately as it offends my beliefs.
From:
To: Ryan Cullen
Sent: 9 Dec 2005 08:33Dear Mr Cullen,
Thank you for taking the time to contact us. I am very sorry that you are unhappy with our decision to stop selling Jerry Springer, The Opera on DVD.
Please let me assure you that we would never wish to cause offence to any of our customers. As a retailer, we feel we should offer our customers a choice of what to buy. We monitor all feedback about the products on sale in our stores and I can confirm that we are no longer selling Jerry Springer, The Opera.
Thank you again for letting us know how you feel. We are committed to getting things right for our customers and I do hope I have been able to offer you some assurance.
Kind regards,
Kelly Brookes
Sainsbury’s Customer Services
From: Ryan Cullen
To:
Sent: 9 Dec 2005 21:51Whilst I have no concerns over you selling Jerry Springer, The Opera, I do have concerns over the Daily Mail which is what my email was regarding.
Can you please inform me if you are planning to remove this publication as I’m sure there must be others who have contacted yourselves regarding the sale of it.I look forward to your reply.
Ryan Cullen
From:
To: Ryan Cullen
Sent: 12 Dec 2005 14:55Dear Ryan
Thank you for your further email. I am sorry that my colleague’?s response to your previous email was inappropriate. I can assure you it was intended in the best possible faith, and I know my colleague made every effort to reply to your question fairly and honestly.
I do appreciate that your original email was to ask that we remove the Daily Mail from sale in our stores. I have passed your comments on to our buyers for their consideration. They will carefully monitor all the feedback we receive from our customers and will make an informed decision in due course.
Thank you once again for your email and our support with this issue. We are always keen to have views and comments from customers, as it helps us to monitor our service and make improvements where necessary. Your views are therefore most welcome.
Kind regards
Graham Salmon
Customer Response Team
Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd.
Maybe well see it being removed from the shelves.
Front Page of the Express
A quick post whilst at work.
Last night I was joking with Heather that the front pages of all the newspapers would be covering Hemel except the Daily Express, which would of course be coving another Diana story.
Am I really suprised that I got it right?