14/03/2007 - Wednesday

Global Warming is a hot topic these days (no pun intended) with the government banging on about what we should be doing for the future. We're supposed to be using energy-saving lightbulbs come 2011 and have cut CO2 emissions by 60% come 2050. Energy-saving lightbulbs are ok, but show me one that outputs the same amount of light as a normal lightbulb and I'll replace every bulb in the house with them! I've never actually seen an energy-saving lightbulb that matched a normal bulb for its brightness. For me, I'd probably have to use three or four times the number of normal bulbs to get the same room brightness using energy-saving bulbs. Can anyone tell me how this is supposed to end up more energy efficient?

One thing that I heard on the news the other day is that big businesses, with huge profits, get given grants to lower their CO2 emissions, whereas small businesses, with small or no profits, have to pay themselves to lower their CO2 emissions. How exactly is that fair?

Comic Relief is here again. I've been watching Fame Academy and still fail to understand how the "judges" manage to keep their jobs. If two of the judges say that someones performance was good then the third judge will nearly always say that their performance was really bad. Also, one of the judges said that one of the celebrities has had great performances all the way through and had found nothing to fault him on. That was shocking to hear as the celebrity couldn't sing to save his life, couldn't hold a note, and mainly just spoke his way through the songs. I'm not faulting the celebrity as he tried his best, it's the judges that have no sense.

I also fail to understand how Girls Aloud and Sugababes were allowed to sing this years Comic Relief song. The song is a pisspoor remix of Walk This Way and neither of the groups can perform it in a decent way. Also, neither of the two groups can actually sing live, and the first time I heard the song properly was when they were singing it live on Fame Academy. I suppose they'll also be singing it live on Comic Relief on Friday, unfortunately.

I've finally come up with a "decent" name for my health website. It'll now be called Healtheriser! I've been trying to come up with a logo image to use, but as I'm really not that good with image editing it has taken a while. It takes ages for me to get something that doesn't look like trash, then it takes even longer while I fiddle with parts of it trying to make it look better. I've come up with something that I'm mostly satisfied with, although I might still need to twiddle the text colour. It was while editing the logo that I came up with the name! I did have the name as "Health Machine", then "Health Watch", then "Your Health", but none of them looked right on the logo as the two bits of text could never be properly centred (due to an image that is in the centre), so I wanted something with one word and came up with Healtheriser. I know it's not really a word, but hey, who really cares? Now all I have to do is finish off the buttons (I was working on a new kind of button, but might end up with the other ones instead) and I'll have a start of a page to look at. I've been putting off actually doing anything for the website until I had something to really look at, so now that I have some graphics for it I can then get started on the meaty part which is writing all the code for it. It should be fun as I have some pretty funky ideas for features that I hope I'll be able to pull off.