Hello, pointless calendar inspired posting time…

1. A friend phoned up and asked of I knew of any late night scart lead emporiums. Clearly a gap in the market.

2. Horatio Caine in love is creepy. Very creepy.

3. Last night was the last ever meeting of the Idle Speculators investment club. We’ve voted to wind the club up due to lack of active participation. Still we outperformed a ftse tracker for six years so I’d call it a success.

4. Grrrr. Need to start the search for a web developer all over again.

5. I actually quite enjoyed Robin Hood. Though I found myself saying “oh dear” every few minutes (and really should have saved them all for the throwing the sword bit).

6. Same friend as in 1 was pleased with himself as a “non-trekkie” (sic) for working out what Torchwood on a side of a bus meant.

7. The Turing Test is a very, very good book.

8. YouTube getting bought by Google at long last answers this question. And means that I’ll have to stop referring to YouTube as the Underpants Gnomes of the web.

9. There must be at least ten mildly interesting things in my life over the last few days, right? Yes, this one is cheating.

10. Logging onto a forum, seeing that new user from yesterday with the suspect user name is online and has just added a link to a site selling drugs, sending him a PM saying “You do know that you’re 30 seconds away from being banned?”, ah, the simple pleasures.

Very True Mood:  sleepy

Comments have been off on new posts for the last week or so. This is a goof on my part and is now fixed.

Via Chris Brooke’s Virtual Stoa

Which Jane Austen Character Are You?

You’re Mariane Dashwood from Sense & Sensibility! You are the romantic youngster, also found in Jane Austen’s work as Catherine of Northanger Abbey and possibly Georgiana Darcy of Pride and Prejudice. You wander through life like Red Riding Hood in the forest, picking wildflowers and humming a happy song… and you can’t see the wolf right in front of you! Ruled by heart and not by head, you are best advised to to learn a little caution, before you are forced into a better acquaintance with the ways of the world.

Take this quiz!

Um. Not sure about that really.

Very True Mood:  tired

Just heard a disturbance outside, looked out the window and saw a woman walking down the middle of the road shouting angrily at the world. She crossed the road to kick the door of the empty shop opposite and the continued her march towards the station.

She was naked except for knickers and a headscarf.

Very True Mood:  confused

On Saturday I bought a song from iTunes by Drill Queen, one of whose members I know in real life.

On Monday a package from Amazon arrived for me, I didn’t remember ordering anything but thought that I might have done when I set up work as a delivery address (Amazon’s courier company is totally incapable of delivering to home). Today I checked the delivery note and discovered that someone else had bought it for me off my wishlist.

I didn’t recognise the name and so checked my Gmail archive to see if it was anyone who had ever spoken to me. It was, a little while ago he had sent me this e-mail:

Hi there, you responded to one of my messages on Usenet, full details here.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets/msg/…

I was wondering if you could please remove it from Google’s archives (you can do this by creating a Google Groups Account, looging in, finding the message and pressing remove).

I’m just not keen on having that URL on the Internet now that it’s used for something different.

Thank in advance,

Used for something different means not used for an escort site anymore. (I’d answered a technical question about the site coding not anything related to the content.) Anyway, today I sent back the message

Bribery worked.

Nice to know that after all these years of giving free advice on Usenet I’m finally getting some reward.

Very True Mood:  pensive

Hmm, there are some PHP warnings on my ‘write post’ page, seems that something is up with the LivePress plugin. Let’s see if this post works despite the warnings and if it gets copied across to Live Journal.

Friday night I was at the brixtonmassive’s empty all the booze bottles before moving out party. There was rum followed by whisky, which sent me to sleep. There was also discussion of dinosaurs, porn (and dinosaur porn) and the best way to get started as a serial killer. The dinosaur porn was more disturbing than the murdering.

Last night I was in the pub (The Phoenix, Denmark Hill) with Jo and Mike and we discussed the essentialness of frosted glass washbasins in bachelor shagpads.

Wow. Thunder and lightning and rain and hail. For protection, pink_weasel is hiding under the duvet and I’ve wrapped myself in the Doctor Who scarf she knitted for me.