Paul Smith's Blog

This is fantastic stuff, we're really making progress here. The government as of February the 1st increased wages for everyone in the public sector by on average 47%. The public sector now makes up about 10% of the economy (more work needs to be done there). Those in the private sector, despite more moaning from the capitalists have seen their wages rise another 15%, Chavez's government has been raising the minimum wage since around 2002, usually by 20%-30% per year....

How come Wester isn't blogging? How come Wester has three blogs? One here and one on his MySpace and one on his MSN Space. How about some updates Wester, I never see you on MSN, you're on the forums less and less, what's going on dude! I'm trying to subscribe to you but I'm just getting empty feeds.

If you've not seen Live.com for a while I suggest you check it out again. It's really developing well - I'm sure Founder will love it as it's huge on AJAX. If they can get the performance up a bit more they may replace Google as my homepage. I just can't say no to having all my RSS feeds sat there. If they can really get the average Joe to use the feeds and other gadgets on this site I could well see it going down a storm....

Marxists have always argued that human beings are naturally co-operative and will help each other automatically "out-of-the-box" if you will. We argued this because logically that is the only way we could of survived, we evolved our natural helpful and co-operativeness because they were a huge advantage over other species, there was also much evidence on early communist societies to bolster the argument. We argue that class society puts a clamp on this natural behaviour due to bourgeois culture transmitted from the ruling classes over history, me me me money money money....

I always said they'd never find him guilty of genocide, the prosecution in the trial suffered set back after set back. With only a few months to go finding him guilty on anything but the minor charges was looking more and more unlikely. Now just a few days ago he's found dead, apparently of natural causes. How convenient. This is an absolute disgrace. His requests for medical treatment were all denied....

As it's the 8th of March I'd thought I'd steal some history of IWD from some other website and post it here. The early years: 1909 In accordance with a declaration by the Socialist Party of America, the first National Woman's Day was observed across the United States on 28 February. Women continued to celebrate it on the last Sunday of that month through 1913. 1910 The Socialist International, meeting in Copenhagen, established a Women's Day, international in character, to honour the movement for women's rights and to assist in achieving universal suffrage for women....

Had some clear weather this evening. Took the scope out initially just to have a look around. Had a look at Saturn noticed the image didn't look as good as it should so - couldn't quite get it in focus and it had a red hue I did a star test to check the culmination of the optics. I was losing at least 30% of the damn light which was just being reflected into the side of the scope, now I knew it was pretty bad but the star test confirmed how bad....

Since Catherine posted up her awesome sketches. I thought I should post up one of my leet drawings too. 100% created on a Tablet PC.

About 56 million years ago a star, exploded into what we call a Type 1A Supernovae. Click for a before and after shot Here it is announcing itself to us, we first detected this about 3 weeks ago and it's around peek brightness now, over time it will fade back down and we'll probabaly never see it again. I love supernovae, that one star outshines everything in it's galaxy. All the other stars in that image around the same brightness are actually in our galaxy - so they're around ten thousand times closer....

I don't like people messing with me. Roodis announced his contraband network a while ago, now this seems to be like a blatant act of war, how someone could want so badly to destroy the community around the dasmirnov.net websites is beyond me. So here's my first salvo. The daFilm and daMusic Portal sites. They'll move in and cut the contraband's primary advantage out from beneath him - once his film and music sites have been destroyed, an already extensive portfolio of gaming websites will unite and utterly crush the contraband network into oblivion....