Yesterday I was rung up and asked if I am interested in a position as a “community counsillor”. Which brings me a bit in a odd conflict. I haven’t yet followed the discussion about the whole new restructuring and development of decision-making in local communities. Also not sure if it is an (un)accountable, unelected position, if it is a representative position of power, which we anarchists would reject, as we don’t want to claim to represent anybody other than ourselves. Also I might not be British enough. Also not sure if it is worth doing it, if it is just a consulting post.

Listened to Democracy Now! and it included a brilliant interview with John Perkins, the author of the book “Confession of an Economic Hitman”. The On the Media podcast is brilliant as ever, this week it focussed on the government trying to substitute access of the press to governmental events by supplying them with press release and their own approved photographs. Another important topic is the “Trusted Computing” initiative, which will see at worst chips implanted in every computer, making not only pirate programmes but most likely even free software and GNU/Linux programmes impossible, or harder to work with or basically economically boycotted.

We are trying to produce a magazine for postgraduates at uni, and today my lovely Micah and me have set up a picture gallery for me to show my photography on the web. Unfortunately it is not as good as I would like it to be, firstly as money to use for new funky photography equipment is limited, and so because of the delay I still can not take snapshots or picture expressions unless somebody holds the same expression for more than 10 seconds. Secondly because my experiences are still limited, maybe I should try to get into some of the professional courses at Telford.

I am ill today with headache, cold, period and so on. Anyways the Guardian has deleted my job application today, one day before the deadline, with already most of the forms filled in, only some questions about reviewing the newspapers and website remained. When my auntie worked at another less known newspaper, she already then said that only the offspring of the editors really has a change to get the internships and workexperience, and that chances are bad and relationships all. Here in Britain some usefull Cambridge-Oxford connection would be helpfull, too. Please mail me if you can provide some!

In my community I try to participate at the Community Psychology Project which tries at the moment to conduct a Social Action Research. Now, the first interviews are conducted and hopefully we will have some exceptional truthfull conclusions soon on the issues of unemployment and training, education, careers advice and work agencies and how all these government strategies fail because of ignoring the actual practical needs of the jobseekers in the council estates. However, sometimes it seems we are actually too disorganised to achieve what we want. I could not yet do my audio editing for the podcasting experiment as busy with other things over the weekend.