Barking

Are these two pieces of research really worth the amount of money that they will inevitably have cost:

• Girly men are perfect partners, say women
• Body fat ‘weighs up love choices’

Basically, it has taken two seperate research projects to tell us we like people who are the same size as us and women like men who are a bit girly, i.e. similar to them.

What will they be able to tell us next - men like women who are similar to them, i.e. into football and sport (my apologies for the obvious use of a stereo type)?

Perhaps I have missed a shot here and should apply for a research grant to prove the obvious - couldn’t this money have been put to better use to research cancer or aids?

I got a phone call yesterday from our local chamber of commerce asking why I had canceled our membership - basically because they don’t offer any useful services that I can’t find for free elsewhere in this day and age of the Internet, and it seems like a waste of money.

My decision seems to have been a good one too - they have had a new website launched this week. Here are my grips with it:

• The design is not great, it is no improvement over the old one and looks fairly date in comparison to what can be achieved these days on the web
• They didn’t bother getting a local company to do it! It is the Coventry and Warwickshire chamber and they got a company from Leicestershire to build it. Seems a bit silly to me when there are plenty of local companies that could have done a much better job.
• It is not valid HTML! There is absolutely NO excuse for this.
• Its a waste of money - the new site doesn’t appear to offer any new functionality or improvements over the last one - did they just have a chunk of money they needed to get rid of?

Just my thoughts!