Just checking up on you..

I found this hilarious clip on one of the (dis)advantages of parents using social networking!

Check it out at: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/facebook_twitter_revolutionizing

Barmy Blaney's Blarney

Browsing the news websites this morning I stumbled across a fine example of a giant waste of time:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8285954.stm

For those of you who didnt bother to click the link then basically a blogger called Donal Blaney managed to get a high court injunction preventing someone writing under his name over a fake twitter account. Some of the provocative tweets posts included:

“So the Iranians were lying all along. Time for the RAF to start practicing bunker bombing...”

“Now Obama, who the eurofederasts [sic] love, is happy to leave us to the mercy of the mad mullahs...”

All very amusing.

An equally effective, less time consuming and certainly less over-the-top solution may have been to email the nice people at twitter and ask them to take the account down.

In a shameless display of egotism Blaney then wrote on his blog that: "It is, as I have said in the media, the day the scales of justice were tipped back in favour of innocent victims".

Lets hope this doesnt set a precedent for overly sensitive drama queens wasting legal time and resources on trivial matters.

Oh and Blaney my name is Matt Clifford, thought it might make my injunction easier.