Grim Outlook

Today’s IT joy dishes up a distinct lack of email in the office. Apparently the server died during the night, so unless you can log on at the machine you were using yesterday, it is impossible to get open email or look at calendar updates newer than 1 October. Even those of us who can access yesterday’s data can’t get updates, so if there is anything important lurking, who’s to know?

In other news, I have no other news as yet. If anything occurs to me, I’ll let you know.

This was brought to you entirely by the need to get the pun out there.

I read the news today, Oh Boy.

I have to say that the internet and news media have really raised the bar for top-notch quality entertainment today.

Without any effort on my part, I have discovered that according to Owen Paterson MP, commenting on the badger cull, that “Badgers have moved the goalposts” I’m not making this up; it’s the fault of the badgers that the cull isn’t killing as many of them as forecast. Here’s a link to the Shropshire Star, his local newspaper, but you can find it on the BBC News website, too:

http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2013/10/09/badgers-have-moved-the-goalposts-says-owen-paterson-over-cull/

Now, if that weren’t enough, the foreign news tells us that today, October 9th sees a General Election in that model country and paragon of democracy and freedom, Azerbaijan. Pity then, that the government agency in charge of elections released the result of today’s election yesterday. Apparently, the incumbent president will win by a landslide…

https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2013/10/08/with-no-votes-cast-azerbaijani-election-app-releases-final-election-results

Of course it’s true that these are only two articles, but they are of such quality that I thought it important that they be recorded somewhere, even if only here on a journal read by half a dozen people.

Sometimes, it’s just worth it.