Feeling blue and liberal democrats

I haven't been feeling well for a couple of days now. It feels almost like onset of flu - shivers and aches all over. So work on my top-secret project has been a little slow. Still I think I've finally cracked the design of a key component - a database of locations that ties everything up together in a hierarchial format.

Meantime, I'm much diverted by the nastiness of the leadership election in the Liberal Democrat party, which I joined last year just before the general election. The favourite to succeed Charles Kennedy is Menzies Campbell (Menzies in Scottish is pronounced 'Mingies' - hence his nickname 'Ming'). The two other candidates are Simon Hughes and Chris Huhne. Both these have suffered a little adverse publicity in recent days, to the point that public support for the party has suffered a severe drop - notwithstanding the scandal attaching to a previous contender who dropped out of the race. It seems that, having dumped a flawed but good leader, the party lately has become a bit of joke - something that annoys me because I don't want to be associated with a political joke. I want to support and be part of a political movement capable of doing serious things.