That's gratitude.

The 73 year old woman who was jailed for a week for refusing to pay her council tax is disappointed that she was released from prison after just one day. Her release came after a mystery donor took pity on her plight and paid off her debt for her. She wasn't happy that someone decided to do her a favour and thus bring her council tax protest to an end.

While she may have wanted to become a martyr to the cause, there are many people who think that prison is no place for an elderly person, especially for an offence like that. She might have been upset that her fifteen minutes of fame were cut short, but she could still have found it within herself to say thanks to the person who kindly cleared her debts. I bet the person who coughed the money up wishes they just let her stay in prison now. Who knows, given the alleged state of our prisons, she'd probably like it better in there than in her own home.

A proper intro..

While thinking about what to write about for my next blog entry, I realised that I didn't write a proper first entry- one that introduces this to the world, what it's about, etc. So, rather belatedly, I will try and give one here.

At the beginning of this year, I made a few new year's resolutions. One was to give more to good causes. Another was to stop biting my nails. The third one was to start a blog. The first I've managed to keep no problem, while the second has been a little harder (I've stopped and started several times- as I write this, I've stopped). It has taken me nine months to fulfill the third one, but better late than never, as they say.

In truth, I'd been putting off starting one for ages until now. I kept thinking, "what would I write about?" and "do I really want put my innermost thoughts on the web for all the world to see?" Then I thought, "why not? They won't know who you are and apart from you there probably won't be many people reading it anyway." Incidentally, if you're one of the small number of people who've discovered this, hello and thanks for coming.

At this point in time, I don't know how this is going to turn out. At the moment I'm just writing down whatever comes in my head, whether it be commenting on something in the news or just something I've noticed on the TV or on the web. It may end up becoming something totally different, or exactly the same as it does now. Hopefully it will turn out to be a decent blog whatever it ends up as.

Crazy Frog- his reign of terror goes on...

Since I got home from work, I must've seen about 25 adverts on TV promoting the latest mobile ringtones. Among them, I've seen plenty of ads promoting the latest spin off tones featuring the force of evil that is the Crazy Frog. As well as putting his unique spin on tracks such as Axel F, some bright spark has come up with tones that are meant to be the sound of him in certain parts of the world. Thus we have "Crazy Frog in Jamaica" and "Crazy Frog in India". I'm waiting for them to come up with "Crazy Frog in France". Hopefully, this will be the sound of him having his legs chopped off by an over-enthusiastic French chef. It will, however, most likely be the sound of him ring-ding-dinging to the Marseillaise.

Oh God! I hope nobody from Jamster is reading this. I'll have given them ideas!

Demo? What demo?

After all the hype, the threats of total disruption and queues of people hysterically buying up gallons of petrol, the petrol protests scheduled for today ended up being a total flop. Demonstrations that were tipped to happen at oil refineries across the land failed to materialise, with the exception of two- and only a handful of people attended those. And yet, despite this and reassurances that the UK's petrol supplies are secure, there are still people panic buying petrol. You'd think that they'd learn, wouldn't you?

ITV's 50 greatest shows

The fifty greatest shows ever broadcast on ITV were unveiled last night. I guess it was no surprise to anyone that Coronation Street was voted the number one show, but Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway at number two? Ok, it's a good piece of entertainment in an otherwise poor Saturday schedule, but it is not worthy of a position that high. There are better shows than that on the list that ended up much lower down the list than they should've been.

If there's one thing that the show proved last night, it was how much ITV has changed over the years and not always for the better. Programmes like Rising Damp, World in Action, Survival, etc- they really don't make them like that anymore. Nowadays, ITV would rather fill up its schedules with cheap reality TV shows than quality programmes of all genres, which is a shame. Furthermore, there is the obsession with ratings, not just with ITV but with the other TV channels as well. Shows that debut with low ratings are quickly taken off air and given no chance to develop. It is most likely that the axed programme will be replaced with, you guessed it- a reality tv show.

There is a lot the powers that be at ITV now could learn from the ITV of the past. One hopes they were watching ITV's 50 Greatest Shows closely.

Posting number one.

Ignore this post. It is merely a test. I want to find out if this is working, after all!