Scandal and Local Elections

There has certainly been no shortage of political scandal here in the UK over the last week or so, but how much of a difference will it make in the local elections in just a few days time? Whilst John Prescott's affair is embarrassing and the Home Office's (Charles Clarke) hash up with releasing foreign prisoners without considering them for deportation is appalling, will it, or should it, affect the local elections?

My personal opinion is that in local elections, you should vote for local issues and leave the national issues for the general election. I don't know, maybe I'm over simplifying things. Maybe you should treat Labour as Labour and Conservative as Conservative, whether local or national - after all, they should still be pursuing the same goals and have the same attitudes.

What does anyone else think? What is the arrangement in other countries with local/national government and how do issues affecting one affect elections in the other?

Battery Converter

I read an article a while ago about someone who uses a GPS receiver and got fed up of it going through his 'AAA' size batteries so rapidly. What he did was to make some kind of adapter so he actually powered it by a couple of 'D' size batteries which were connected to a couple of dummy 'AAA' size batteries in his GPS receiver. This way, because 'D' size batteries are more powerful, he didn't have to change them as often.

I am interested in making a similar adapter, but my electrical engineering skills aren't quite up to the job. I was hoping to find something on the Internet about how to make one, but I can't find anything. Does anyone have any ideas?

Backlinks

I think I have now got the Backlink code about right, but the trouble is I have no way of testing it! None of my articles have backlinks at the moment, but I'm assuming that's because no one's linked to them!

I wonder if somebody would mind putting a link to one one of my posts on their blog, just so I can find out whether or not this is working!!

I know I haven't posted for a while, but I do intend to get into the way of posting a bit more regularly.

This is a test link to a previous post.