Beginners blog

Well to be honest I'm probably just talking to myself here but heck nothing wrong with setting out a new blog of my life, the ups, the downs, the wobbly bits in the middle. For anyone used to my old blog I always said it was to be seen sort of like that wonderful old show Oakie Doke, with myself cast in the role of Oakie and yourselves as that mad frog who kept yelling "My hat" in a peculiar scouse accent that in 23 years of living in Liverpool I've yet to hear anyone else use!

Anyway as this is my first blog I thought I might just pick up on a few things I've noticed in the news recently. First of all today's major news story seems to have been focussed on young Jenson Button who has become F1 drivers champion triumphing over adversity, or alternatively who has just gone to prove that actually F1 is no more a sport than extreme toenail clipping or the celery dicing world championships. Just take a moment if you will to reflect on his "Achievement" this is a man who last won a race (Incidentally his only win prior to this season) two seasons ago and has essentially for many years been a national laughing stock. And yet this season has been given a new car that is better than anyone elses and he won six of the first eight races, now are we really supposed to be suprised at this? It's sort of the equivalent of Manchester United playing against Scunthorpe away, except United have to play in those huge old fashioned clodhopper style boots, and carry their luggage about with them on the field...... oh and the goalie has to wear one of those slumber masks they give you on the fancier airlines. And then we're being told to act suprised when Scunthorpe win. No Jenson, you won simply because you had the best car which makes it, in my opinion, not a sport simply a contest to see who happens to have the best engineering students and to be honest we have those strange warhammer contests that take place in secluded comic book shops to make engineering students compete - though incidentally that would be a damn sight more interesting than watching the F1 and I speak as someone who has sat through the unutterable hell of both of those pasttimes!

Today Matt: Applied for another job he isn't going to get.
Watched University Challenge with a glass of wine and felt smug for about two
second of it.
Read Charlie Brooker's new book and chose to begin blogging again!