September 11

A bit weird today... it's the 5th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and... well... nothing, really. No silence at work, no memorials (as far as I'm aware) in Sheffield - just a normal day, kind of.

Of course, for thousands, possibly more, of people, this can't ever be "a normal day" - and whatever you think of the politics surely you have to have sympathy for those who mourn for those they lost in general, and especially today.

I wonder if the general low-key approach, in the UK at least, it's because of a fear that seems to be coming across some people of glorifying terrorism. There's an interesting debate on the BBC website here about whether making such a fuss and showing the images over and over is glorifying the event and those who perpetrated it. Simon Jenkins wrote an article in The Guardian last week arguing much the same thing.

I guess it's important to remember what happened and there can be a horrible fascination about those pictures but... show it too often and you almost (almost) seem to be in awe of what they did.

Of course, the real way to not learn any lessons from 9/11 is to set up a massive assault on our human rights - but of course that would never happen, would it...

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I've tried to change them to use Blogger's very own system - so this is a trial run to see if it's worked or not...

So if you've put comments on previously and they now no longer show up, I am really sorry - it's not deliberate, honest!!

To clarify...

The link to the website for the blog I mentioned in the last post is on the right, between the "World of Stuart" and "I believe in the BBC" links. For some reason, Blogger objected to putting the link into the post itself Hope this helps clarify things!

Also, apologies to whoever posted a comment asking where the link was for not posting a reply direct - for someone reason, my computer objected to that, too...

Remember me?

I'm the guy who started writing this, oooh, ages ago.

You never know, I might get round to reviewing the next Queen song (Spread Your Wings, if you're interested).

Anyways, before that momentous event, please enjoy the website belonging to my brother in law - the link is in the "Links" bit (it appears not to display correctly in this bit, for some inexplicable reason...).

That is all for now.