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- I don't know why I bothered owning a car. I just don't. I had to renew my car tax. Which unfortunately involves presenting your car insurance and MOT (car roadworthiness) documents. This sorry saga starts when I realise that despite diligent paperwork filing procedures (it all goes in a huge pile), I had lost said documents. |
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- Once in a while, when I feel like I know what I'm doing (or it's a special day like today - St. Davids Day, patron saint of Wales etc.), I'll occasionally dare to utter a sentence or two in Welsh instead of English when speaking to an appropriate person who would understand what I'm saying. And then I'll get th impression that I sound a tad pretentious, presumptious and silly. After all, if someone dropped a Chinese phrase into a mostly-English conversation, my head would jerk back and I'd be mildly annoyed or piqued. |
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- Just get Sky to outbid the BBC for the rights to the Oscars, and then pretty much ignore the entire awards ceremony, in favour of: - constant plugs for the Scissor Sisters and Elton John - not coincidentally, Sky's pathetic presentation of the Oscars is brought to you from Elton John's party - The most exciting thing about the Oscars this year was that Chris Rock was presenting it. So what do Sky do? Cut down his witty bits to a three-minute opening prologue, and leave him out of the rest of the show. - have presenters who are far more obsessed by the parties and the costumes than the films and the awards - put Amanda Byron on the pink carpet for the party, and have her ask all the actors and actresses what they're wearing. |
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- (Yet another bloody meme about compiling the greatest album list of all time. Although of course consuming music via albums is merely a commercial/technical hangover from the 1950s-1990s. We're all now getting to grips with an era of consumer choice when we can get just the song we want for 79p each - hell, I just showed one of my computerphobic but muso-obsessed friends the power of iTunes UK. There won't be a similar list circulating the galaxynet in 2047...) Anyway... |
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- I am paying very serious attention to the idea of going to the United States between 11 and 24 March, mainly to get rid of all the leave I still have outstanding. I've already been quasi-invited to San Francisco and Sarasota to see some old friends (well, not that old) ... but if you're feeling bored during that time period and want to hook up / offer me your sofa to sleep on / go for wild nights on the town / offer me marriage (or anything really), then please please feel free to let me know :-) |
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- Never mind global warming, the war on Iraq, the rise of religious fundamentalism or the fact we'll all be under house arrest soon. UK Star Trek fans are planning to hold a rally to try and save Star Trek: Enterprise. Even though it's already been cancelled for good reasons. Even I stopped watching it (that theme tune really got on my nerves). |
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- One of the things drilled into me (not by choice) during my Louisiana State University journalism course was that for a feature story, an opening paragraph should ease you into the article in a warm cozy manner, emphasising the human interest angle. To me, that comes at the expense of the story itself - or "burying the lead" to use the American media parlance. This CNN.com story shows what I mean. (Spotted via Boing Boing) There's a huge 2,000-ton pile of cow manure in Nebraska that self-ignited and has been burning for three months now. |
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- It was just another normal dull Sunday afternoon. I'd come back from Cantonese class, and was making a stab at the washing-up, when suddenly the doorbell rang. Outside the door was a long-time e-friend, who I shall name Arizona Gal. I was delighted to see her, and knew she was in the country, but obviously wasn't expecting to see her. Especially in Cardiff. |
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- Thanks to the UK Weblogs Aggregator, I occasionally skim past the latest entry from Smoking Women Are Sexy, about the exploits of a "non-smoking teenager trying to get to grips with my (his) smoking fetish". He'd occasionally sneak pics of women smoking via his cameraphone, and upload them onto his blog - which of course leads to non-hilarious consequences when he gets caught, never mind the moral/ethical implications of what he was doing. Usually, I'd catch the latest entry, smirk snobbily at the boundary-less limits of human sexuality and fetishes thanks to the Internet, and move on. It's now the blog's first birthday and he's managed to do something that somehow doesn't work for me - he got a date with a smoking woman via the blog. She even let him light a cigarette. |
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- During the occasionally-traditional Friday night drinks, I end up at the award-winning Toucan Club at their Welsh-language music evening, watching The Gogs doing their energetic head-moshing rock thing. And watching the crowd, because I've had way too much drink at this point (4 pints, probably) to do much but observe. At one point, a short girl with shockingly pick bouffant hair comes in. Which makes a huge change from the uniform of skinny dyed-blonde-hair girls with handbags and boys with short hair, shirts and trousers at the club. (Not that I'm any different of course). |
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- It'd be nice to think that in this new all-design millennial era, the archetypal pony-tailed square-spectacle-wearing ice-cool (blue, naturally) designers of the world would conduct their flamewars with a little more class. My mate has finally made it into the hallowed halls of the CSS Vault Gallery for his contribution to design. A tad minimalist, but it does the job and I'd probably rip off research his CSS code to find out how he does a few tricks. If I knew how. Amusingly, however, it wasn't long before his entry got encumbered with a flame war, and insults like "Rich you're a twat... |
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- They've released the first proper trailer for The Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy. On first glance, it looks suitably insane, zany and downright weird with fantastic special effects. It's going to be a good month for British sci-fi fans, what with this and Doctor Who later this month. Anyway, watch the trailer (legally via Amazon or a dodgy Quicktime version, and in the shot with the alarm clock, you'll see a BBC pass lying on the table. Nice touch! |
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- Baghdad Burning has an interesting post about buying groceries after the recent elections in Iraq. The following is an excerpt from the post. Yesterday, one of our neighbors stopped by the house. She was carrying a hot plate of some green beans in a tomato sauce. ? |
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- President Bashar Assad , responding to weeks of intense pressure, announced Saturday that Syria would move its troops to the Lebanese-Syrian border in a two-step pullback that he said should satisfy international demands for a complete pullout.It was not... |
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- Hugo-winning fan editor Cheryl Morgan has posted a brief review of Corflu Titanium in the latest Emerald City. In what appears to be an attempt at humor, postulating a "World Society of Fanzine Subscribers," she says that, "The first, requiring that all Corflus hold a ceremonial burning of e-fanzines (and their editors) failed because the proposer, rich brown, failed to attend the convention." Later, she facetiously asserts, "A delegate from Texas stated that no red-blooded American fanzine editor would ever use art by a foreigner, and a woman to boot." |
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- I am Jack's Imaginary Tiger Friend The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century Joey deVilla's Weblog — The metaphilm essay puts forth an interesting premise: In the film Fight Club, the real name of the protagonist (Ed Norton’s character) is never revealed. |
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- Kristian Huselius vistelse i schweiziska Rapperswil blev kort - och bjöd bara på förluster. |
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- Damernas längdfinal avslutades med en skandal då det blev fel med mätningen av tyskan Bianca Kapplers sista hopp. |
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- Henrik Skoog slutade tia i ett 3.000-meterslopp där det handlade om uppvisning från segraren Alistair Cragg från Irland. |
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- En småkrasslig Emma Green slutade åtta i damernas EM-final i höjd. På nya personliga rekordhöjden inomhus 1.92 blev det för svårt. |
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- Imagine it's still 2000: during the bubble, before Spitzer. The market's white-hot, and IPOs from hyped young companies are hugely in demand. The broker-dealers deliberately underprice the IPOs they get, guaranteeing mark-to-market profits for their favoured customers – the ones who can get in at the IPO price. |
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- That could be it the firmware...maybe you need to reinstall the firmware. You can go to Linksys site and download the latest and then try to upload it. |
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- I know this is an old post, but I ran across these two programs that may do what this user is looking for: http://www. bluedigits. com/products/vmrover/ http: |
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- Somegeek writes " SpaceDaily.com is running a story that NASA never performed a formal risk analysis of a shuttle mission to rescue the Hubble Space Telescope before they decided to cancel the mission on grounds of risk. The story quotes Fred Gregory, the current acting NASA administrator, as stating that previous NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe made the decision "based on what he perceived was the risk". This perceived risk is in performing a manned shuttle mission that is out of range of using the International Space Station as an emergency refuge. The Hubble's current batteries and gyroscopes will probably fail in a few years, leaving the dead telescope to crash back to earth around year 2020. |
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- Paintball fans have something to cheer about as New York City's first paintball facility opened on Friday. New York City Paintball (warning, the early 90's looking site has music), located in Long Island City near the temporary MoMA QNS, means you can get all your welts closer to home! No more traveling to Long Island, New Jersey, or Pennsylvania. With two fields and 27,000 square feet, there's plenty of room to shoot and get shot at by all your friends, not just shooting the freak. Playing for three hours runs $39 and there seem to be lots of deals targeted towards the younger set. |
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- (Canada) An application to search the property for stolen goods and a marijuana operation indicated Mounties were well aware they were dealing with a volatile individual. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(60%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $cannabis(100%)] |
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- (Canada) An application to search the property for stolen goods and a marijuana operation indicated Mounties were well aware they were dealing with a volatile individual. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(60%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $cannabis(100%)] |
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- (US) Selig was "startled" by the results.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $drugs(95%), $drug_policy(100%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
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- (US) Selig was "startled" by the results.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $drugs(95%), $drug_policy(100%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
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- (Canada) Johnston and three other officers were guarding Roszko's Quonset hut.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $cannabis(100%)] |
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- (US) Selig was "startled" by the results.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $drugs(95%), $drug_policy(100%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
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- (Canada) An application to search the property for stolen goods and a marijuana operation indicated Mounties were well aware they were dealing with a volatile individual. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(60%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $cannabis(100%)] |
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- (US) Selig was "startled" by the results.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $drugs(95%), $drug_policy(100%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
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- Giant Steps by Michal Levy (categories: flash music) Adding Persistent Searches to Gmail [persistent.info] (categories: gmail search)... |
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- Jeg har købt 2x Maxtor 6Y160P0 160 GB 1x ST Lab PCI ATA 133 IDE CARD Jeg har efterhånden forsøgt alt mener jeg, men ligegyldig hvad jeg gør siger den medfølgende software at min harddisk er 32253 Megabytes hver. Jeg vil gerne opbygge et Raid 0 med dem. |
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- Saturday 19th March 2005 Filths Opening Night! Gritty Electro & Tech-House, Garage Dubstep and Grime DJs: Aidan McGee, Muli, Synik & High-Jinks Dj Squad, Farj & Paul Fraser (Garage Pressure) – Eli, Zerodub, Kodama (Southern Steppa) Performers: feat Mc Harlequin Tickets: $15 - $10 when you register or with a flyer |
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- That's the key question voters should ask themselves regarding the L.A. Mayoral race. If there is indeed currently a three-way race, there will be a run-off. Assuming Parks and Alarcon are out of the running,... |
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- There have been numerous stories published of late indicating that the US Military isn't the occupation of choice for America's young people anymore. The reasons are numerous, and the fact that this nation abandons its veterans when they can no... |
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- Armando over at DKos has an interesting take on the DLC, and whether we (meaning the lowly bloggers) can find common ground with them. Unfortunately, Armando fails to answer the second half of his rhetorical question: "Does the DLC Want... |
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- by TChris Speaking of irrational intolerance of minor law violations, the Williamsburg police arrested and handcuffed an 8-year-old boy "who allegedly had a violent outburst in school, head-butting his teacher and kicking an assistant principal, when he was told he... |
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