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Do you think that George Bush would be improved by being ‘monkified’? Is he already enough of a monkey? Decide here

The opening music for The Sopranos, from here.

Purely for a few people who hadn’t seen the show and had never heard of the excellent Alabama 3.

Someday, I’m giong to find whoever first considered the idea of the final year project. And then I’m going to encourage them to discover the error of their ways and repent.

And then I might start on whoever did PHP. And MySQL. And possibly the whole internet shebang.

In case you haven’t gotten the plot of this post, I’m getting fed up with my pitiful attempts at anything resembling work…

Bugger.

The Economist has an interesting article today, about the Fear of America among ‘old Europe’ (i.e. France and Germany)[needs subscription, unfortunately]. Basicially, it’s asking if the French/German position is just fear of America (as Sartre said, the US has “rabies”, and europe mustb step away or “we shall be bitten and infected next”) or actually based on the facts.
Doesn’t come out favourably for the French and Germans, although I’m not so sure about the article’s conclusions.

… you’ll probably know that I quite like a bit of a techno-thriller. Larry Bond, Tom Clancy, and that sort of thing. So I was quite interested in the news that the UK MoD had finally got round to organising their two new Aircraft Carriers. And I have to admit they look quite good. But why with the ski-jump, lads? The US Navy have been showing you how to do it for the last 50 years. And their nev ones (CVN-77, CVX and on) will probably avoid the whole catapult issue by using magnetic propulsion. Not, you’ll note, a ski-jump that was invented for mini-carriers. Get with the programme, guys.

UPDATE: I’ve just been informed that the ski-jump system can be removed at a later date and that there is the option of retro-fitting catapults. I’ll let them off then…

If GWB believes this, we could be in for a world of trouble…

having a bit of grit in my eye again.

Credit to Pete.

Legolas, Sk8r Elf:

Credit to this messageboard, and to the Secret Diaries of the Lord of the Rings.

Special mention must go to the LotR, Dilbert style (page 32 on the message board) and the Family Guy version (about a quarter of the way down on page 31).

When you’re trying to get some work done, and someone sends you this
, and then this
,
it can get very distracting. Hence me blogging it, really.

Photo phones can be great, but there is also an inherent risk attached…

It’s been snowing here in the midlands, so I thought that this might be appropriate…

Profquotes contains some of the more random of the quotes that those most balanced of people, university and college lecturers, come up with. My personal favourite (partly because it’s the attitude I live by, and partly because it’s a rip-off of Friends (in their good, season 2-5) days), is “I’ll have some Irish coffee, hold the coffee.”

Matt’s weblog is finding some random shit. Like Flash Curling. And this photo:

Quite random, really.

For some reason, the whole ‘blog died yesterday, and I’ve only got it up and working again now. It can be very dull and boring to reinstall all the software again, but it seems to have worked. Anyway, I’m back…

At the minute, I’ve just finished reading How To Be Good, by Nick Hornby. Now, I really liked the first book of his I read (High Fidelity), mainly because I identified with the main character, Rob, who is a newly single middle aged layabout who likes music (I’ve only not been one of those things. Middle aged, before anyone asks). I can’t do this to the same extent with Katie, from HTBG. Mainly because she’s a middle aged married woman with two kids, a doctor’s surgery and a very strange husband. So the dilemma: do I bother reading the rest of his books? They seem to be more to my liking (one about football and sex; another about acting to get sex), so I think I probably will.

And there is the crux of this post: sex sells. God I’m shallow…

And this is how I don’t want to end up. Yes, Iain, all of the world’s problems can be traced back to Suez and Labour. Honest.

Right, if anyone ever bothers to read this (not very likley, but hey) I’d like to layout some inspiration for this whole high-tech weblogging fingy. First off, Davezilla, who is a daily danger to the keyboards of the world (expelled coffee is always a Bad Thing (TM)); then Pete’s weblog, which has a more ‘local’ feel. There was also Matt’s weblog, but he stopped it and started a photolog instead. There was also, in the not to distant past, a weblog belonging to RjY, but it seems to have stopped being a weblog. Dunno what’s it’s going to start being soon, but I’m sure I’ll find out soon enough.
Cheers then.

I got sent this many, many months ago, but had nowhere to put it. And now I do. So have a gander, and imagine what might have happened…

This is my first attempt at a post. So there’s not actually anything here.
But hey, I’ll give it a go.
:lol