Robert Small, The blog thereof.

This is just a quick post to tell you about a few new features on the website. They should make it easier for you to use.

ShareThis

This is a useful little button just after the main post which allows you pass it on to as many people as you want. If you click ‘ShareThis’ then it brings up a small box which allows you to select a service to send it to. The three most popular so far have been Facebook, Myspace, and Stumbleuppon. Please help both me and the site by posting all content that you like to any social service you use. More people might like you if they think you’re friends with me!

For your interest my Facebook profile is: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=604575290

If you want to add me as a friend please send me a message telling me who you are first (just mention that you read my blog).

Wordpress Wall

This is a feature a little like Facebook’s wall. You can make quick posts to me at the side of the front page. It’ll be interesting to see how this goes and if anyone wants to make use of it to say something shorter than a full blown comment.

Wordbook

I also have installed a little plugin that automatically posts new posts to my Facebook profile. This will be a good way for some of you who know me to keep up with what I’ve posted.

PDA Viewing

This feature should let you view this blog on your PDA or iPhone, not too sure about smaller phones capable of html browsing. Do send me some comments if you try this.

Well, that’s everything, I hope people like what I’ve done and if you have any comments or suggestions then please pass them on to me - commenting here will do.

Kind regards, Robert.

PS: I’m writing another list of comments. It will arive within the next few days. RJS.

‘A man who urinated on a woman as she lay dying and shouted “this is YouTube material” has been sentenced to three years in prison.’ bbc.co.uk report, thanks Auntie.

Listening to this BBC report on the radio I contemplated what a sick society we live in; however, my incredulity was not tried enough, yet. I was only half listening to the news now, imagining the woman’s humiliation as the man covered her in shaving foam and urinated on her. I can hardly imagine a more terrible scene of death.

Given in his defense is that he was under the influence of marijuana and alcohol. This is no defense, surely the court is meant to measure out judgment as some level of compensation for the man’s actions; his state of intoxication makes no difference to the crime from the victims end, not only did he not help or phone for help he gloried in making her last moments as close to hell as possible. He may feel that it’s YouTube material, but I feel that it’s more than a valid excuse to lock him up for many years. That he was a former soldier makes this crime even more horrific, this man was trained to help in extreme danger zones and impartially remove resistance with an aim to preserve human life, it would seem that dialing 999 (the emergency services) was too much for one of such high caliber.

‘A director who presided over redundancies as she swindled money from a company to support a lavish lifestyle has been jailed for five years.’ bbc.co.uk report, thanks again Beeb

As I said, my mind had taken precedent over my ears as I mused over this terrible incident, however, one thing was left to shake me to the core. It would appear that the courts in this country value corporate theft above the defilement of and failing to aid a distressed and dying woman. Gentle reader, I do not intend to be judge, jury and executioner; I have no intent nor the pretension to believe I have any right or even the ability. However, I do feel a deep resentment and what I can only describe as riotous wrath that the legal system should treat someone in this way.

I’m unsure what can be done to rectify this situation, after all, past experience would bring me to believe that it’s only one of many. Past experience would also bring me to believe that we are probably not told everything which we might be and would need to be to discover the true state of affairs, however, I still express my genuine outrage at what seems to be a great injustice.

Yours, disgusted, Robert.

Edit 01:27 27 Oct: Fixed more to Valtr0n’s liking