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

Ahoy me hearties, pull up a seat, pour yerself a tot o’ rum and listen as yer captain tells ye what he has been about of late.

Last Thursday ’twas my birthday and me landlubbing brother sent me gifts (arrr, I know what ye be thinking, he not be wanting me to plunder his scurvy souled town, and I be thinking that ye ‘ave a point). He sent me the latest collection of shanties by a fine lusty lass and a tall tale of a comedian in the arms trade. I be liking both gifts, though I must confess the whole idea of selling arms perplexes me. Why sell them when ye can use them to plunder more booty instead?

Over the weekend, the ship needed some repairs - the mass of booty plundered was becoming too great and so with much ingenuity on the part of our swedish carpenters we now be having a fine set of bookshelves to be a berth to it all.

This week I pressgang’d me first mate into helping me plunder the vaults o’ London. Arrrrrr! I also be on the look out for a new hand and been holding interviews for a suitable seadog.

Avast, I must be to sea. Fair seas to ye all and see ye at the appointed hour next year. Harrrrrrr!

Very True Mood:  silly

Via rozk

The Veteran

You scored 82%!

You’ve picked up the majority of the classic rock basics. You probably have a classic rock collection and can sing along with most of the songs on your local radio station.

This is not the highest score, but it is arguably the best: that subtle combination of impressive knowledge and not being a pretentious geek.

The BASIC classic rock Test

Very True Mood:  cheerful

A meme, via snapesbabe

If I were a Dead Russian Composer, I would be Sergei Rakhmaninov.

I lived in the early Twentieth Century and was well known for my compositional, conducting, and piano skills, yet I am melancholy despite this talent. My famous works include my nearly-impossible piano concerti.

Who would you be? Dead Russian Composer Personality Test

Very True Mood:  confused

Now, I like most of what I’ve heard by The Ramones but I never really got into them or bought any albums or made any sort of effort to correct this defficiency until recently. Thanks to the magic of bittorrent I downloaded a bundle of 28 albums. That’s a lot of music. Too much music to get my head round really. So I’m appealing for help. Where should I start, what are the best tracks, the best albums?

Very True Mood:  confused

Lots and lots and lots of memeage this week. Via lonemagpie, snapesbabe, sharikkamur and just about everyone for the Tarot meme.

( Ruler Meme )

( Political Meme )

( Pirate Captain Meme )

( Cat Meme )

( Tarot Meme )

( Dog or Cat Meme )

( Music Meme )

( Politics Meme )

Very True Mood:  mellow

Right, hello, does this thing still work? Oh good.

Um, me, yes, what have I been up to? Ohhh, um, er, okay, not much actually, but enough, if you know what I mean. Which you probably don’t, ‘cos I’m being incoherent. Oh well, Sunday mornings are made for incoherence. Looks at clock. Ah, I’ve got six minutes to write this post or I’ll have to start being coherent.

Yesterday, pink_weasel and I went down to sunny Surrey to see my parents. Lunch at The Plough at Blockbrook, good as ever though they seem to be getting a bit over ambitious with the menu. Then shifting furniture so that the floor in the dining room can be ripped up and the damp problem finally solved after all these years.

Back home with new footstool to go with the chair we liberated last time we were down there. Faffed about for a bit and then…

How amazing was Doctor Who?

Wow. Brilliant. Proper review type thingy later.

This afternoon off to see Pirates at the cinema in Croydon. And this week we have a Bollywood movie being filmed in the office, whilst we’re working; an Idle Spec meeting; and the office summer party at some OTT bar/restaurant/lounge place up in Camden; and if I’m not too hungover the next day back up to North London to see Drill Queen play. Gah.

Bugger. 12:01. Time to start making sense.

[Update] - Interesting, Word Press is stuck on GMT so I manually edited the time stamp on this post to make sense in relation to the content. But as that’s in the future as far as Word Press is concerned it isn’t displaying the post. I hope it will display in an hour’s time. Anyone know of a WP hack to make it understand daylight saving? Otherwise, well changing the time zone setting twice a year is the sort of thing more likely to be forgotten than not.

Oh dear. Australians. What can you do with them? *

Linky link link if the video doesn’t play

*that they haven’t already done with themselves

And the one with the beard? I work with him. Take pity on me.

Very True Mood:  distressed

Inspired by unknownlegend, though I’m just doing twenty rather than a stonking 99. So how many can you name without cheating?

Create your own Music List @ HotFreeLayouts!

Very True Mood:  contemplative

Bollocks. Forgot to turn off the iScrobbler plugin and now my Last.fm profile is full of all sorts of strangeness that pink_weasel was listening to this evening. I can’t delete them for a week.