200 not out

Today cricket history was made as Sachin Tendulkar scored 200 out against SA. The highest score ever in ODI history. Pretty impressive stuff and I was so happy to be able to watch this live this morning. I'm really pleased for him and despite his age the guy just keeps going no matter what.

There's never been a finer batsmen since Don Bradman and I doubt we will see anything quite like this.

Parking tax on diesel cars?

I heard on lbc this evening that the moron government now wants to levy a parking tax against diesel car owners! Apparently they feel its necessary because diesel cars emit dangerous emissions. When I heard this I nearly fell off my chair and it wasn't in amusement but in sheer shock at how stupid this government really is. I'm a diesel car owner and have been for nearly two years and there is no way i'd go back to owning an uneconomical petrol engined car. I get almost 550 miles out of a full tank and ever since i've owned my diesel my fuel bills are £80 less per month as apposed to when I had a petrol car.

I ask you how can any car emit emissions while its parked up and stationary! NOT MOVING! the issue here should be about space not about what comes out of the tail pipe. We are in a recession at the moment and what better way to get more money out of us than by applying a punitive tax against diesel owners. It's almost like they don't like or want drivers to save money annually and have to put a stop to any oneupmanship that exists.

Seems another cheap ploy by the government to rouse up scaremongering tactics involving the environment and suggesting diesels lead to greater pollution. Well this may have been the case 20-30 years ago but diesel cars are far more cleaner and better refined than ever before and as long as its well maintained, i.e. fuel and air filters are changed as per service schedule there will be no issues. Actually wait a moment....the same applies to any car not just diesel.
It is also worth noting that diesel cars are far more reliable than petrol cars and they last longer so surely with this in mind more petrol cars are scrapped annually and parts are replaced more frequently which leads to effects on landfills and disposal costs. So perhaps the government should charge petrol car owners a tax on maintenance? nah they won't do that because most of the politicians drive Aston martins or Bentley Continentals which us poor souls have paid for via the public purse.

What's next I wonder...broadband tax. I have an image of Brown and his sycophants rubbing their hands together excitedly,planning the next method of implementing a new form of money making.

Prash

recruitment agencies

Since throwing in the towel at the last company I was with,(IT support) i've been looking for a new job over the last few weeks and so far haven't really had any real interviews apart from many invited from recruitment agencies asking me to "come in and register"
I've seen a few but there's some I just couldn't be bothered with because they were too far away or too vague. Believe me when I tell that recruitment agencies are only in it for themselves! they see you as a number! a pound sign to help them attain their commission! they are sales people with an agenda! they don't really care about finding you the right job or putting in a tangible effort into finding you one but they will entice you to come in and see them.

All logic of timing and distance goes out the window when they request you to register. You could be living in London and if they are in another county they will still ask you to register! Unfortunately if you do decide to bite the bullet and go into see them, more often than not the job you applied for will have mysteriously now be already filled :-( wasted journey.
I had the mispleasure of going to an agency in Chatham (the word Chav is derived from this place btw) a few weeks ago and armed up my road map, managed to get to the main town centre in which they were based but the morons couldn't direct me to them when I phoned up so I told them to stuff it and I went home. I do usually have an abundunce of patience but on this occasion I kinda lost the will to live and felt my day was better served by being snuggled up in my nice warm bed rather than out in chav central looking for a job that probably doesn't even exist. Oh yes recruitment agencies make up jobs just to get willing victims to send them their cv's. That's why you will see the same jobs advertised by the same agencies over a period of several months. It really is pathetic...well not really I suppose because its just devious gits doing what devious gits do to generate more registrations.