Voting TaKtiX

Ok, it seems that half the blogosphere, and at least two serious papers (Torygraph and Indy) are talking about the “new” website launched by the Dept of Culture (at a rather large cost from what I can tell considering, DK agrees) Icons of England.

From the bumpph, it’s a lighthearted attempt to promote symbols of England. OK. It’s new. Um, no. Y’see, I linked to an ‘icon’ nominated by a friend of a friend. He emailed me about it and asked me to vote for it (go on, what could be more English than Winnie The Pooh Illustrations by E H Shepard?). According to Gmail, I got the email [Date: 05-Oct-2005 21:48].

New? No. Relaunch, formal launch, slow news day, distraction? Maybe.

Of course, that our friendly Devil could probably have done the job for a 3rd of the cost and a healthy profit is irrelevent, right?

Right, when I decided I wanted to run a blog, I knew I’d need at least one other person involved in order to keep it going. Having a pretty good friend who I agree with on most issues, who happened to be completing his Masters Degree in Critical Global Studies (which is posh for Political Theory/Philosophy) and a good writer was fortuitous, getting him to agree to post stuff here was cool.

So, on the grounds that I post so often his stuff gets swamped (and sometimes people credit me for the entire blog anyway without noticing the byline), I though, given that I’m feeling all grotty with a cold, I’d do a summary for his stuff.
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2 questions for the readers…

1. Can one of the approx 30% of readers using M$’s Internet Explorer to get here tell me where the links in the sidebare to the right of the page are? They’re at the top where they’re supposed to be in Firefox but not in IE when I glanced here at work. My coding skills aren’t 100% up to figuring out where the problem is if there is one.
2. Why do people still use M$N search?

As it happens, I was probably going to write something about prostitution at some point soon, but, well…