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Sat 17th Oct 09, 10.30am

I'd be very surprised if you could stand to listen to the whole song, but it's worth the novelty value to have a listen to this German guy that raps in Klingon, in this case to Eminem's "Without Me".   With thanks to Neatorama for the tip.

Sat 17th Oct 09, 10.15am

News came out this week that Playboy are to feature Marge Simpson on the cover.  I'd like to think it validates my view that Marge Simpson is sexy - with her hair down of course, I'm not weird or anything! 

Will this start a trend?  The blonde girl from Captain Caveman maybe?  Penelope Pitstop draped over her car?  Lois from Family Guy would be up for it, I'm sure...

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Sat 17th Oct 09, 10am

I have been mostly :-

• feeling tired and irritable and being unsociable at work.
• going to the local herbalists and getting a Man's multivit (honestly, it's like a rugby ball!)
  
• (2 days later) feeling sooo much better!  It's like I've had a fog around my brain, I'm mentally sharp and full of energy again for the first time in months.  OK my pee is bright yellow but I can live with that.  Just shows how important nutrition is to your health, and how you can stumble along not realising you're out of whack.
  
• doing very little else except going to work, watching telly and sleeping now the skint half of the month is upon us.

Until Wednesday Wellington had a feeling of Spring about it, until one of those long white clouds descended and gave us a continual deluge.  Looking forward to having Wor Lass back at work (she's still looking, thanks for asking!) and some nice weather so we can enjoy the deck.

"Trying is the first step towards failure" - Homer Simpson.

Mon 12th Oct 09, 10am

I finally took half a day last week to rebuild my work PC to Windows 7, and so far I'm loving it.  The interface is very slick and polished, it runs quickly and finally provides the client OS that Vista should have been.

There's still the horrible UAC to disable, and they've not totally cleared up the total bodge they made of networking configuration in Vista, but generally it's much nicer to use.

The Aero themes look fantastic on a decent screen, and the Taskbar is much cleaner when running lots of apps concurrently - the browser icon even shows you download progress!

Win7

While I'm feeling the love for Microsoft, I've given Google the elbow and switched to Bing, exasperated by their constant badgering to install Chrome -- which doesn't work with ISA proxies properly, a pretty fundamental flaw! -- or turn on iGoogle, which corrupted on me months ago.  

I could see some Linux flavours closing the gap on Vista and becoming a viable alternative for corporate machines, but Windows 7 sees Microsoft fighting back strongly.

Fri 9th Oct 09, 6.10pm

Genius is the clever new tool in Apple's iTunes software.  It's like having a best friend that works in a music store, rifling through your music collection and recommending new stuff to you.

Only "Genius" has taken one look at my record collection and turned against me like Jack Black in High Fidelity. 

Peter Andre?  Adam Rickitt?!  S CLUB 7?!?!  WTF?

Alright, so I might occasionally play F!ve's Greatest Hits when nobody's looking, but still ... Peter. Andre.   The shame of it!

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Fri 9th Oct 09, 6pm

I'm delighted to report that -- after 11 months of hassle and stress -- we've finally been approved for Residency!  

Does this mean we're planning to settle in New Zealand permanently?  No.  While work is good and we're enjoying it here we'll stay, but you never know what the future might bring.

Does this mean we can get a mortgage and buy a house while prices are low?   Possibly.  Not right now as the exchange rate's though the floor.

Now we just need the weather to pick up so we can throw a PAAAARTY!

Fri 9th Oct 09, 7.15am

... is why I ended up here!  Nice little advert, didn't see the punchline coming.

Fri 9th Oct 09, 7am

B3ta have a good photoshop compo on at the moment - If America Were Still British.   This one made me feel a tad patriotic.  I think I'll jolly well have a nice cup of tea, eh what?

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Wed 30th Sept 09, 8.15pm

Don't ask why, but I stumbled across this Youtube clip and nearly wet myself laughing.  Brilliant editing!

Sun 27th Sept 09, 7.40pm

I have been mostly :-

• reading "The Time Traveller's Wife*" - sci-fi romance, surprisingly enjoyable
  
• watching "The Young Victoria" at our favourite indie cinema
  
• doing badly at the pub quiz
• hating ISA Server more every time I use it
  
• losing an hour's sleep (the clocks have gone forward in NZ - now +12 hrs)
• developing RSI from playing too much Wii

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it"  -  John Maxwell.

*  There's a chain of bookshops in New Zealand called Whitcoulls (good, but not as cool as Artie B's) and I've become obsessed by their "Top 100 Books" display. 

I don't know how it's calculated, but it's a varied collection of "must read" books, and as a lifelong bookworm I'm stung by how few I have actually read - only around 15.  Admittedly some are chick-lit (Marian Keyes, Austen) and others unappealing (The Bible, Edmonds Cookbook), but I still feel like it's mocking me every time I walk past it.

I've played right into the hands of their evil brainwashing executives (aka Marketing) and tailored my reading selection to start ticking off some of these classics.   I've already done Life of Pi and started on The Time Traveller's Wife, both of which are soon to be released as films, and both have been rewarding reads, so perhaps there's some good to come out of my insecurity...  next up:  To Kill a Mockingbird.