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For those who haven’t come across Twitter but know of Facebook, it’s like everything stripped off of Facebook, just leaving the status function. Basically, you leave a sentence about what you’re up to and friends, relatives, whoever can view it.

What’s interesting about Twitter is the level of integration that’s available. For example, the TwitterBar is a Firefox add-on that lets you update your Twitter status from the Firefox address bar. Or – and this is great for sheer laziness – the Facebook application that will update your Facebook status from Twitter!

Anyway, I’m a recent convert and you’ll notice that the top of this blog now has my Twitter status (it’s the line of text on the right under the top menu) – I found out how to do that from another blog.

I’m sure the love affair won’t last and my use of it will fade into obscurity. But then again, you never know.

Don LaFontaine is the US voice-over artist that has put his talents to over 5000 movie trailers over the years. Sadly, on the 1st September he died aged 68.

He had been performing voice-over work for over 25 years and was, according to his own website..

A voice actor famous for recording nearly 5,000 movie trailers, and nearly 350,000 commercials, programs, files and other presentations. He is arguably the most successful Voice Actor of all time.

Here is a superb interview with him, which includes some of the trailers that he’s added his voice to over the years..

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I thought the announcement yesterday about insulation incentives was great – free or discounted insulation for the old and poor. Throwing money at them to pay for fuel bills each year doesn’t make sense – long term insulation to reduce those bills does.

So I find it more than a touch annoying when people don’t appreciate when they might be stepping over the line of what is acceptable behaviour in these situations. Let’s take BBC news yesterday morning. The government minster gave out a freephone number for those affected to contact where they could get advice on what they could claim and how to get it. Naturally the question from the BBC report was “but why should they have to contact you – what about those people who are too busy to do that”.

Too busy. Too busy. Well, may I humbly suggest that if you’re “too busy” to ring a FREEPHONE number and organise something then maybe.. maybe… you don’t deserve any assistance.

And this morning they were reading out an email from a disabled pensioner “incensed” about the free loft insulation because they won’t come around and clear his loft out first. And then what? Would he want them to put all the stuff neatly away in his drawers or take it away to the tip for him – he is a pensioner after all. Where does it end?

And this morning there’s a new story about a coastal village that’s DEMANDING that the government do something about the fact that their houses are slipping into the sea. Hold on… didn’t you buy these houses knowing they were closed to the sea? Were you never aware of coastal erosion (and even if you wasn’t, how is this fault of the government)? This is along a similar vein to those who buy houses next to airports and then complain about the noise.

You can’t demand everything in life from the governent to smooth things over and make everything perfect. We have to stand up to our mistakes and we can’t complain when people are trying to help – all of which are demonstrated here. As a society we have to stop demanding everything is laid in front of us, get off our arses and do something.

Here ends todays rant.