That’s my password. Don’t tell anyone. I always use it because my old one, ‘andy’ was deemed too short for some actions. So I extended it. Then it lacked at least 1 capital letter and a number. Then it was too memorable, it had to be something that was so impossible for anyone to remember that you had to write it on a piece of paper and stick it on your fucking computer. Then it needed at least 14 characters, half of them not letters and NO WORDS!!!!

I know we need protection from online bastards and thieving scum. I know that if someone gets into my bank account online they might pay off my overdraft. Or commit ‘identity fraud’ and some Romanian pick-pocket would come home at 7 o’clock and say he was me. “You’re not Andy!!!!” Mel would shriek in horror. To which he’d reply: “I am now”. “Oh”, she’d say, “well, dinner’s ready, in that case, and have you fed next door’s parrot yet?”

So the Hungarians want to use the internet to impose more tax on their people. Every gig you download will incur a charge by the internet providers which will go towards the government tax pot. So the Hungarians are revolting. Nothing new about that. There’s protests in Budapest. Thousands of iphone-wielding yuppies bemoaning their government’s unfairness.

Well is that any worse than mansion tax? Which is a tax on London? The City which provides about 80% of the nation’s tax in the first place? Londoners should pay less tax because its so ridiculously expensive to live here. We should be subsidised. By the Hungarians if necessary.

Yet back in cyberland there’s more stuff going on. This lovely picture of a woman breast-feeding her tiny little premature baby has been removed from facebook for being deemed ‘offensive’. Facebook stated that (and this is a real quote; honest): “we have a problem with photos of women breast feeding because they involve breasts”. No shit. There were another couple of photos more ‘explicit’ in that there’s a baby clinging to something that, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, one could safely assume was a breast. So its ok to show people getting their heads sawn off with kitchen knives, but a breast, even in the most wonderful and life-affirming context, is verboten. Its like facebook is operating under Sharia law. Though they have now removed the ‘ban’ on the photo. Tossers. If you really want to see breasts, I’m guessing that other websites may be more forthcoming.

Spurs beat Brighton & Hove Albion last night. Brilliant. We love a midweek match against no-hope opposition. Its what makes us feel good. Until Saturday comes. And they always bloody do.

Happy thursday

A xxxx