Having spent the day exploring the wilds of the District of Columbia, I'm rather amused that I was driven off the streets, not so much by the afternoon heat or thirst or the aching feet but by the fact that my cell-phone and MP3 player were both running out of power and I needed to scurry back to recharge them....

On a much more selfish note:

Plane tickets? Check.
Registration? Check.
Hotel? Check.

Now all I need to do is get written approval for my leave and I can start packing.

Wheee!!

So, the news from Virginia hit the front pages of the local papers this morning, and now, the fallout starts.

Duck and cover, people!

I’m also wondering, how long before they start going after computer games as well, seeing as how the boy in question was a fan of ”violent video games, particularly Counterstrike, a hugely popular online game, in ( Read more... )

Hot diggety. I got to watch 300 over the weekend, and it was good. Not very good history, and the cinema was packed, but for an action movie, it can’t be beat, even if it got a wee bit preachy about how a few good men can make a difference ( Read more... )

Because I'm curious. And just a little bored. And a sucker for memes.

And a tad bit sheepish too...


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Well, no, actually I did’nt.

But by all accounts, I should have, courtesy of random earthquakes in the neighbourhood. Guess the fact that my office is on the first floor might have had something to do with it ( Read more... )

I was just asked a very interesting (and rather disturbing question) in a conversation that came up during the weekend.

“How many books have you read in your life?”

(Picture books and texts in foreign languages count, as do textbooks.)

I was about to shoot my mouth off with a random answer (a couple of hundred) and then realised I don’t really have ( Read more... )

And my word but things have been moving incredibly fast since my last update! Where to start ( Read more... )

Woohoo! Holiday season and its back to the salt mines, and I cannot possibly contain the sheer overwhelming joy I feel ( Read more... )

First thing I saw when I logged onto yahoo this morning, and I just had to share....

The link to the article in question can be found here.

If you're lazy, the full text of the article can be found... ( here )