Bollocks

There I was, all smug with my glass of wine and comfy slippers, thinking that my decision to join the interweb blog craze singled me out as some kind of revolutionary, albeit a slightly tardy revolutionary admittedly. However, apparently I am not alone in my decision, indeed each day around 75,000 people decide to create a blog. Bugger. And, if my casio is on the ball, that equates to about 1 per second. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. That's six more right there. Although I reckon its a fairly safe bet that of those 75,000 new bloggers the vast majority, let's say 74,000 ish, post no more than a couple of updates before losing interest. That said, I'd better make sure I post a few more updates before becoming just another statistic. By the way, if 75,000 people create a blog each and every single day, it will take over 200 years for every single man, woman and technologically advanced newborn to have a blog. However, as with all such forecasts and calculations, the result is dependent on the number of people in the world remaining constant over that period as well as the number of people starting a blog each day. Now, just before you fall asleep let me tell you that neither is likely. Global population is at the whim of a number of factors and likely to fluctuate wildly over the next 200 years, and it could quite easily be argued (by people with beards who fear daylight and know about such things) that in 200 years the intermaweb will have been replaced by something even more complicated and inexplicable. Or maybe not. I just don't know. And like you, dear reader, I don't really care.

Oh, by the way in case you're wondering this blog has no particular theme or topic, and I think its probably more than fair to say that it wont be the most linear, logical or organised blog on the web. It may tend to cover a number of topics at once, or indeed as is more likely, none at all. but that's the point, right? Nobody who has a blog has anything interesting to say.

Wrong! I have found a solution to the current pensions crisis! What pensions crisis I hear you say in your heads while sitting in front of your computer screen many miles away?! The one where basically if current socio-demographic trends continue, ie people keep living longer and having less kids, by the time we retire there will be nothing in the pot for us. Welllll, it's quite simple really. According to the latest figures (and yes I do have too much time on my hands) some 700,000 children are clinically obese. That's quite a lot. And that's just the clinically obese, not to mention the very fat, the rotund, the McSupersized, the big boned and those with "water retention" issues. Obesity reduces life expectancy by up to five years, which means that, deep breath, although the number of people in active employment is falling, the number of people expected to reach pensionable age is falling too, possibly quicker, so the pensions crisis that looms at the moment may turn out to be the millennium bug of the future. Add to that the fact that retirement age is set to rise to 70 years of age for those born within the last 12 years and I think my smug face has just returned. Although, and I feel I should get this point across at an early stage, I may be wrong, don't bet your house on it.

On that light note, hasta luego.