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Category Archives: Social Commentary
Unemployed
This blog has always been a mixture of diary and wider commentary, and such is the case with this post. I moved to Plymouth a little over a month ago without any job to come to. I actually left a … Continue reading
Posted in My Life, Plymouth, Social Commentary
Tagged cv, dispair, employers, job market, jobs, Plymouth, recruiters, unemployed
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Revenge of the Glasses
Back in March I casually mentioned that, because of the economic crisis, Nick Robinson had been replaced by Robert Peston as the BBC blogger of choice on the BBC News Front Page. Well, Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m sure none of … Continue reading
Backward Banks
For me, a poor, penniless student with no property, no morgage, no deposit for a morgage, no shares and no capital, the recession has, so far, had very little impact on my life. Perhpas this will change in a few … Continue reading
Posted in My Life, Rant, Social Commentary
Tagged banks, changing society, finances, incompetance, L, problems, Rant, stress, Technology
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Pizza-Pasta, Pasta-Pizza
Well, hello there blog! Been a while hasn’t it? Yes, yes, I know and I’m sorry. But as I have pointed out in a few of my recent posts, coursework comes before blogging. Or rather came before blogging. For now … Continue reading
Hope for the Future
Some time ago I wrote a post detailing what I thought might be the future of energy consumption in this ever more environmentally aware world that we seem to be occupying, and if your browser handles the transition from my … Continue reading
Posted in Social Commentary, Technology, The Future
Tagged car, climate change, environment, fuel cell, future, hydrogen, new, Technology
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Mactini
Just saw this over at Steve Clayton’s blog and thought I’d share: (This is an embedded Youtube Video and I’ve absolutely no idea whether it’ll show in your RSS reader. If you can’t see anything please click through to the … Continue reading
Rebellious
Earlier today I was sat in an unusually sleepy lecture on Consumer Buying Behavior in Tourism. The lecturer was trying, in vain, to get the class to contribute and kept putting questions to the students to try and get them … Continue reading
Posted in Social Commentary
Tagged attitudes, changing society, history, lectures, problems, protests, rebel, students
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Thoughts On A New Government
Well, the effects of the election have sent shock waves across the country and kept the various news services busy for days, but at last it looks like things are coming to an end. Today is the first full day … Continue reading →