Hi:

This is the website for Owen Carter, a British guy who has been living in Amsterdam for the last 11 years.

I'm afraid there is nothing earth-shattering here, no solutions for World Peace, no cures for peoples ills.. Just a few of my photos and ramblings.

Rooney is a little pillock,

but the little lout inspired a nice quote:
“After the ’98 World Cup Michael Owen became known in the media as the baby-faced assassin, Wayne Rooney is now being referred to as the assassin-faced baby”
5Live apparently.

Give a man a fish,

and he owes you one fish.
Teach a man to fish, you give up your monopoly on fisheries.

Physics explained:

Friction is a drag
Gravity is a downer

A nice summary of the modern malaise:

Basically, society no longer cares what the “law” says, because more and more people realize that the “law” says whatever the Honorable Senator from Disney wants it to say. Using it to defend your position compares well to using a pool of sewage runoff to take a bath in – You don’t actually accomplish your goal, and you come out smelling like shit.

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Quit Slashdot

It´s a waste of time really.. Some very reasoning here.

Others are better at expressing things than I am.

For example:

I think that given small scale problems, government is not the place to look for a solution. But you have to admit the problems of the Internet are becoming wide-scale. Most of the email that now moves around is spam. Most of this is moved by zombied PCs running Windows. Most of the spy ware, malware and other maladies out there take advantage of flaws in Windows. 90%+ of all PCs in the world run Windows. Microsoft is a monopoly. Monopolies cannot be fixed by market forces – because they fix the market. If government can’t fix it, and the market is no longer capable of doing it, then who/what will?

I’ve been swashdotted — Elmer Fudd

Sums my feelings up very well.

“I spent the past 17 years working in IT and can say with confidence that computers are a high-speed way of producing low-quality work. They encourage a slap-dash, fix-it-later approach that is all too obvious in computer software production and, frankly, journalism.”

- Keith Boulton

I’m not trolling here..

… But coming from Britain I can tell you that we are certainly not a western democracy.

We’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week, but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major decisions.

Most people don’t know this. We chose this system of government because we believe that strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. At the end of the day we believe that supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses.

I hope that clears things up for you all.”

Another Quality Slashdot Post! the text is originally from Monty Python, the Holy Grail.

Meat is Murder

And the flesh you so fancifully fry
Is not succulent, tasty or kind
It’s death for no reason
And death for no reason is MURDER

Meat is Murder by The Smiths

To Err is Human;

To Forgive, Divine. Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Some lyrics that make Perfect Sense.

He said ‘Mama Mama
The President’s a fool
Why do I have to keep reading
These technical manuals?’
And the joint chiefs of staff,
and the brokers on Wall Street said;
‘Don’t make us laugh
You’re a smart kid
Time is linear
Memory’s a stranger
History’s for fools
Man is a tool in the hands
Of the great God Almighty’
- And they gave him command
Of a nuclear submarine
And sent him back, in search of
The Garden of Eden.

From ‘Perfect Sense (part one)‘ on Rodger Walters excellent, though sadly ignored, album Amused to Death .

Growing sense

“There’s a growing sense that even if The Future comes, most of us won’t be able to afford it.” A Lemmy quote.

Ok, some more quotes, just for completeness..
“We´re a bluesband, only faster” and “I wanted to form a band so bad, that if we moved in next door your lawn would die”.

Interesting fact, Motorhead’s name was originally ‘Barstards’ but the record company forced them to change. :-)

I skimmed some of this info from here.