Ippoippo

… WTF!

Mind you, SMAP doing Susan Boyle. Genius!

Why the hell have I bothered with it for the last year or so?

I guess the last day or so has been a bit of an epiphany, where I realised Facebook really is a pile of shite!
I mean really, what’s the point of the stupid applications which people waste their time playing on (come on, surely there are more interesting things to do), the aquisition of ‘friends’ who aren’t really your friends (who you never kept in touch with after school, why is Facebook any different) etc etc.

So, today, the process of Facebook Account 切腹 (Seppuku) has started.
Since I don’t trust Facebook to clean up properly, I guess I’ll pollute my account with junk for a month or so, before finally ‘deactivating’ the account.
Also, since Facebook are spoil-sports and banned things like Seppukoo and Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, I’ll have to do this the long winded manual way.

PS: Family, real friends etc…. don’t worry. I’m not ‘real-life’ suicidal, just Facebook life suicidal.

Hmmm, smallholdings… but where? UK or Japan.

Anyway, been busy looking around, and found some good sites which I’ll be following from now on.
Ken Elwood
Happy Black Sheep (Transition Initiative)
– Thing Transition Town initiative, like in the UK.
Inaka Life 田舎の生活
Kitchen Garden Japan
SHIZEN NOU 自然農　- Natural Farming in Japan
Wallabi’s Farm

I loved this story on the BBC following the release of government papers due to the ‘30 year rule’.

“If other delegation leaders, for example are each being assigned 20 karate gentlemen, the Prime Minister would have no objection to this; but she does not wish to be singled out. She has not had in the past, and does not have now, any female Special Branch officers.”

It was quite an interesting story, because it seems to show that the Japanese government and I guess society in general was not sure how to treat a female in a position of power. Things have obviously moved on since then…