my husband, Pete, has finally succumbed to the lure of LJ. I really, really wanted him to be ShedMan, but he has settled for perlmonger. This has caused a certain amount of cold staring in the house this morning, as you might expect.
he is also, of course, Male Blob to jordan_cats, who rule the house with an iron paw in an iron glove.
popped out to buy some more fish for the pond – 3 ghost koi, 2 fantail goldfish (1 orange and 1 pale), and an orn’ry goldfish. We’ve bunged their polythene bag in the water to let the temperature adjust, and let’s just hope that piscine war doesn’t break out later this evening. That’ll make eleven fish in total – they’re incredibly relaxing to watch. I want an aquarium indoors now.
while we were out, followed a car with one of those Baby on Board stickers. Why do people do that? The only time it might be useful to know there’s a baby in the car is if the car is mangled in a traffic accident. How many of these sticker stickers take the sticker out where there isn’t a baby on board?
now I’m off to cook a simple summer supper (how alliterative!) for some good friends – looking forward to a nice evening.
who on earth thinks up Davros and Stephen Hawking in Electric Dreams?
Flash, BTW – don’t say I didn’t warn you.
seen on a mailing list this afternoon … http://thegravy-train.20m.com/work.swf
how ridiculous – marypcb posted a link to this quiz. If it’s blank, don’t worry – it’s code from somewhere else, and I guess their server is very busy. Apparently, I am “lovesick green dolphin covered with postage stamps”. And I never knew.
gone are the two 19″ iiyama CRTs, and in are a brace of Nec 1850e 18″ TFT chaps. And aren’t they nice?! So now I have all this space to clutter up with rubbish!
and when we removed the old monitors and the assorted detritus, we even found the spare 128Mb compact flash card. Which was nice.
next job – install the Macromedia MX stuff. I may be some time.
so, I’m reading on a mailing list this morning a message from someone who wants to (in his own words):
send out HTML based viral email (yes you heard right) which highlights this fact and ssks the recipient to do 2 things – firstly vote Renewable or Nuclear and secondly, send it on.
I and several others said “that’s spam – don’t do it”. And he’s getting very uppity, because the cause is something to do with building (or probably not building) nuclear power stations.
it’s still spam though, isn’t it …
I really am baffled by this talk of Consignia dropping the second postal delivery of the day. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a second post since I moved to this area (N Somerset) in 1996.
oh fergawdssakes – where the fsck has my Windows XP CD gone? How on earth am I supposed to do a reinstall now?.
[sigh] will just have wait till the Microsoft Direct Action pack arrives (ordered this morning)
do you know what our elected leaders are up to? Do you think it’s necessary for the Post Office, and the Food Standards Agency, and any local council, to see what web sites you’ve visited and what e-mails you’ve written?
well, they, and a whole load of other government departments (there’s a list here) will be able to do just that. There’s a lot of stuff being perpetrated by the authorities on the back of September 11, but I really do fail to see why, e.g., the Food Standards Agency should be allowed to know what I’ve been doing on the web. And all without the need or restraint of any court orders.
everyone, fax your MP – I’ll do the same, but Dr Liam Fox already has me marked down as a dangerous subversive, I fear, after I wrote and asked him if he was in favour of sending British troops to Afghanistan …
some other essential reading on this: