A Sign the Great Depression Isn't on Us Yet

Listened to the radio lately? Watched TV? Read a newspaper? Then you'll know that we're in a recession and that Britain is doomed and the world is going to crash by the weight of it's own greed.

Except it isn't is it?

The media, as they always do, have blown the situation out of all proportion to scare the masses and confuse the public.
Just today I was listening to the news on Radio 1 and a piece was on about the soaring levels of unemployment in the country, fair enough I thought, it is on the rise. Then it went on to speak to a household of twenty-somethings explaining that they could not get a job, again fair enough I thought, jobs aren't always easy to secure. But then it went on to point out the extent of their poverty, apparently most nights they have to go the lengths of eating pasta, flavoured with "Jack Daniels". Hang on?! Jack Daniels?! Is this this what poverty means now-a-days, cooking with name brand Whiskey. Call me skeptical but I couldn't help thinking times weren't maybe as hard on these people as the piece was trying to make out.

Another pudding in which the proof sits that we aren't as hard up as a country as we're said to be is comic relief. This year once again the brilliant boys and girls who make up red nose day did another fantastic job and raised more money that ever. Showing once again that money can still flow from the back pocket of us decent folk and that ultimately, as a country, we can afford it.

If you did watch comic relief this year, you will no doubt have seen what real poverty and pain is and that it is all over the world, in England, Africa, everywhere. It always has been and it always will be. But don't worry the world isn't going to end quite yet. Nothing has changed drastically, as history shows, the rich get richer and the poor as a majority get by.

Until next time, stay classy world.

The beginning....of the end?

Hello World.... nope that's programming. Howdy....that's being a cowboy. How does one enter the world of blogging? Well...
Hello. I don't think there are many 23 year old Computer Science graduates who haven't at least dabbled in blogging, but until today I was one of them, and so this is the beginning for me.
So my life at the moment. I live with my wonderful girlfriend...but we live with the rest of my family too, a bit of a drama most of the time but we cope. I work as a computer operator for a big clothes retailing company, which pretty much means I work 12 hour shifts 3-4 times a week monitoring all there systems, its over an hour commute in the car but at least it gives me time to think. They money is good too, so at least I can justify being a zombie by the end of my third shift.

As my name suggests I am a geek, I have my large DVD collection in alphabetical order, I download the latest TV shows and movies as quickly as I can, I read Empire magazine, I play video games, I like my computers and I have a collection of action figures stood on the top of my TV unit.

At some point I intend to write a screenplay, I really will get round to it at some point, really, just as soon as that thing is done, and I've tided up a bit, and oh is my music collection really in that state?! But seriously I really want to do this soon, I've decided it doesn't even matter if its a worst read than Lindsey Lohan's autobiography (I really hope that doesn't exist), I've just got to write one.

Anyway that is my introduction to myself and my blog. I'm sure that at some stage I will write something that somebody may want to read.

Until next time, you stay classy world.