nick’s (n)-line life

[This entry was originally posted on facebook, it is backdated here to match the original date of posting]
Fireworks for New Year
Ok, so this is the first time I’ve tried to make and keep any resolutions like this but I’m feeling frustrated with the way some things are; This seems like a good way to try [...]

A Photo from the n-line galleries…

Taken on the grounds of Girton College, Cambridge during the current good weather.

Yep, after much build-up, today is the big day in Singapore:
IBN Live — Polls opened at 0000 GMT at more than 400 voting stations and were to close 12 hours later. By late morning, one-fifth of the 1.2 million registered voters had cast their compulsory votes, the elections department said.

The Contenders:

and the currently ruling PAP:

Results [...]

This year’s local elections are now wrapped up and the results are as follows:

Councils
Councillors

Party

Net +/-
Total
Net +/-
Total

Conservative

12
67
250
1568

Labour

-18
24
-254
1064

Liberal Democrat

1
13
18
781

Residents Association

0
0
-8
21

Green

0
0
14
20

British National Party

0
0
13
13

Liberal

0
0
-1
9

Independent (…) Health Concern

0
0
1
5

SALT

0
0
0
3

UK Independence Party

0
0
0
1

Others

 0
0
-33
94

No Overall Control

 5
59
-
-

The real winners were the Conservatives, with the Lib Dems holding their own, and labour falling flat on its face. The BBC have published a  very useful Interactive election [...]

With Microsoft’s planned release of Windows Vista later this year next year Apple have changed their marketing tactics, we’re being told to: “Buy a Mac - It just Works”

Commentators have picked up on Apple’s increasingly aggressive marketing and it seems, to me, as if this might be linked to the imminent forthcoming Vista release.
I’m not [...]

Fresh Creations are running their favourite sexist ads and I thought I’d run a couple of my favourite comedy ads:

and moving on…

Augh, crude comedy is a fine art.

This month’s top referrers in (rough) descending order:

Peking Duck
Wordpress
China Law Blog
My ApplyeMenu
My Prairie Gazette

Thanks for linking :)