1. Most content on TV is pointless drivel

   The vast majority of TV content is completely pointless and loaded with pop culture shit. The few programs that actually contain worthwhile content are excessively watered down to cater for the lowest common denominator. There is far more interesting and educational material available on the internet.

2. Watching TV prevents you from doing worthwhile work

   If you are watching TV, you cannot be simultaneously doing worthwhile work. Why spend all your time watching TV when you could write a book, start that business or work on a hobby.

3. Excessive pervasive advertising

   Everything on TV is loaded with excessive advertising for completely useless products. If you do not expose yourself to this, you may be surprised how much less money you waste buying useless stuff.

4. There are many other ways to relax besides TV watching

   If you just want to relax, there are other things you can do besides watching TV. You can Discover and practice new hobbies, get involved with your local community or just go out for a walk.

5. Interesting things will start to happen

   If you stop wasting all of your time in front of the TV and start getting involved with your local or online communities loads of interesting opportunities that you previously did not know existed will start to surface.

6. Its expensive

   Ether you can view free TV and view a small number of channels with little good content, or you can pay for satellite/cable TV and view a massive number of channels with an even lower percentage of good content. Buying cable/satellite is a waste of money. In some countries even the `free’ channels require a licence fee.

7. One to many architecture

   With all traditional media, TV included, all of the content comes from a limited number of monolithic companies; the TV channels. These companies have complete control over the content that gets shown, often censoring anything controversial. On the internet this is not the case, anyone can post anything and nobody censors it, which is why it often provides more accurate information.

8. Watching TV is unhealthy

   The vary act of watching TV requires that you sit relatively still for large periods of time. Sitting down for to long can cause obesity and general heath issues. Instead of sitting around watching TV, go for a walk.

9. What you don’t know can’t hurt you

   The content shown on TV is designed specifically to be addictive in order to get people to stick around and watch the adverts that make money for the TV channel. While this content may seem interesting and entertaining on the surface, it has little lasting value and is promptly forgotten when the series ends. If you don’t see the programs, you cannot be drawn into this trap.

10. TV is outdated and obsolete

    These days people want a more interactive entertainment experience. The development of devices like the Apple TV, Google TV only prove that TV, in its current form is obsolete. If you want a more interactive entertainment experience, discard the TV and use a computer!

11. The content is available elsewhere

    On the rare case that there is actually anything worth watching on TV, its available elsewhere. You can still watch DVD’s on your computer, and TV programs are increasingly becoming available through streaming on the internet.

12. TV subtly brainwashes you

    Watching TV creates conformity of thought and destroys creativity and individuality. It exists solely to maintain a mass of uncreative human robots to run the production lines.

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    We buy stuff because a TV-inspired mass delusion told us to, in order to keep the factories churning and corporate profits high. We live in a world that the factories are destroying, and ultimately, the junk isn’t making you happy anyway!

    Let’s just stop buying and start living, because living is the answer we’re all looking for.

    (Thanks to @vegansalt for inspireing this item.)

This website has bean running for several years with a somewhat poorly written fixed width and height, static html design. Considering that it was the first website I created, it has not faired too badly. However its limitations meant that the apparently simple task of adding a new page took two or three hours to complete and thus the site would go untouched for months at a time.

The new site is completely dynamic and CMS based, substantially easing the process of updating. During the recode I took the opportunity to add some new functionality such as the recent images list and this blog.

If there is anything specifically that I have learnt from the old website, besides how to write HTML and CSS, its not to create static websites as they are an absolute nightmare to maintain, even if the amount of code duplication is kept to a minimum using includes.