Bacontrack

So here is the idea.
Every traffic department in SA nominates a tech savvy person in their department. This person will then be responsible for updating twitter (and communicating with Cliff), managing a facebook page and responding to the masses. This surely would be a daunting task but Cliff has proven these tools to be powerful and effective. Imagine a person who can report on and follow up corruption charges on twitter. If the traffic police had reported exactly what cliff did they could have been heroes and they could have gone further by reporting slow traffic etc.
The biggest enemy one can make is the public and the public has never had such powerful means of communication before. 21000 followers are dangerous. Why not harness that power for the purpose of justice?
Tweet. Post. Blog.
One person can reach thousands of people without even leaving his office. All you need to do is reach their hearts. Kudos to Cliff for taking the risk. It shouldn’t be a risk. It should be a service delivered to the people.

Here comes “the what if” part:
What if you use the social websites and reach out to the users to perhaps:
Tweet descriptions of stolen cars. Discouraging vigilantism. Recruitment. Public awareness with regards to drugs and human trafficking. Answering queries that the laymen might have. There are a lot of possibilities.
The police and metro (any government association) are servants to the public. They are supposed to be our heroes and friends. We are supposed to treat them with the respect and dignity that this position deserves. But they have a bad reputation thanks to both sides. The person giving the bribe is as guilty to this as the cop taking the bribe.
What do you think ?

Life Draft

Draft
Any of the various versions in the development of a written work.
A dose of liquid medicine.

I find myself perplexed at how everything happens around me. The universe provides a never ceasing flow of events which are versatile and spontaneousand yet as easy to manipulate as the ocean tide. We as men dream of changing such things and dam and wall these tides and think ourselves as victors of nature while at the same time fail to see that we have barely grazed the flow. Poetic dont you think. Nah! me neither.

Repeating an experience allows me to predict the outcome. Like driving. And relationships. I am on autopilot when I drive and when I relate. The only problem is that in relationships my autopilot sucks. I shoot my mouth off, make bad decisions and in the end a total ass of myself. This is achieved with total independence from me. I rely on the other person to interrupt this path and perhaps I would achieve a different outcome. Unfortunately this rarely happens. I am saddened by this. I so deeply desire a different outcome. Yet "Nay" says the people " We are masters of our own destiny. It is up to you to change the result."(In a loud chorus with communist music roaring in the background) I will burst the stereotypical self loathing bubble by saying I think that I am atleast a decent, intelectual (Whoops! Thats with two ll's) well mannered bloke. I think I deserve to get what I want sometimes. Problem being that I am beginning to suspect that I am not the only factor in this equation. What do you think ?