Changes

8th July

I’m thinking of changing this website alltogether. Although its nice to get a couple of hundred hits each day mostly through affiliate links. I am thinking of removing my affiliate list and just keeping a very selet few who would be put alongside some other websites that are design websites or political ones. I’m thinking of changing changing my style of design as well—moving to things that are based on things I’ve noticed in life. Might be doing a layout featuring eyes soon Also I’ve got a few brushes resources to put up btw, mainly ‘paint stroke’ ones if anyone is interested.

Here’s an interesting fact:
According to a report by Brandeis University in Massachusetts.
“African-Americans and Hispanics were at least twice as likely to receive high-cost home mortgages as whites with similar incomes”
Why do black people get higher mortgage costs even when they have similar incomes to a white person?

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tags: updates, society

General Election

4th May

Other than the exams I have in June. I have been focusing on the General Election 2010 that is occurring in the UK, where a political party and prime minister are to be elected. The system is quite complicated but thats generally what happens.

I’ve always been a ‘Labour’ party and ‘Liberal Democrat’ supporter, mainly Labour since Liberal Democrat don’t get a chance to shine often in politics. This is because two parties have dominated politics in the UK, the Conservatives and Labour.

However this election is different, through live TV debates, Liberal Democrats have gained much needed recognition, so now its a three-horse race. And I’m a complete Liberal supporter now because I feel like my vote will be worth something, due to the party gaining awareness. I agree with most of their policies and they have a fantastic team behind them, who could really improve the economy and other issues in the UK. You can get a little taste of what each candidate wanting to be Prime Minister believes in, by checking the Youtube Debate channel.

This week, my college and high school (they are linked together) had a ‘mock election’ where people stood up for a party and campaigned for votes. The students and pupils had a chance to vote in this mock election and a few were chosen be the leader of each party for this mock election. I was the Liberal Democrat leader and had a live debate with 4 other main parties infront of 200 college students and some teachers. And I won the debate!! (basically I got the most cheers and votes after it).

The mock election isnt finished yet because the high school kids vote hasnt been counted yet. It would be brilliant if I could get a majority vote in that as well. I can only hope…
The results of the actual real election is tomorrow evening I think.

Sitewise: I have moved hosts to the wonderful Floriental and have finally been able to use Fanupdate.

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tags: updates, politics