New Years Eve

No resolutions, no promises, no real expectations. No review. That was done here, so I’m not going to repeat myself.

Just the normal NYE feeling of impending letdown. I can’t help it – I’m not a fan of NYE (for different reasons to Peter but at a similar level of blah for it) but I try to be optimistic about it, and not expect it all to fall flat on it’s arse.

I try. But I fail.

Have a good one, to all. Seeya in 2003.

Do people still fall for this kind of thing?

I’m not sure if this is the first virus warning of 2003 or the last one of 2002, but it seems like Yaha’s doing the rounds again. I must admit, I find it amazing that companies still allow anything with file extensions like .scr and .exe to get through the firewall. Then again, I’m amazed too that people still seem willing to click on any old attachment that comes through in their email.

Books

Damn, sometimes I love Waterstones (even if they do use the amazon website, which is a bit cheaty, but there we go).

The week before Christmas, I looked on Amazon to see if one of the authors I’d used to read all the time had churned out anything else, as no UK bookshoip seemed to have heard of him any more. Sure enough, he had – three books worth, in fact.

So, because at the time they were listed as “ordered within 1-2 weeks” from Amazon, I wandered into Waterstones. “Can you order these?”, sayeth I. “Yes, no problem. We can’t guarantee they’ll be here before Christmas (which was only three days away) but they’ll be here before New Year”.

And today I went in to pick up all three that I’d ordered. My post-New-Year recovery period is now fully fuelled with books…

Honours

Good to see Stephen Lawrence’s family receiving an honour from queenie in the New Years Honours list. And Brenda Blethyn, Ridley Scott, and loads of others too.

Must try harder

What a pity. Ali G gets missed by a bullet from a suicide – how ignominous would that be, getting shot by someone who only cared about killing themselves. They were probably watching the Ali G movie at the time – I lost the will to live after just seeing the trailers for it.

If you died…

Green Fairy raised this one to my attention, but I’m with her 100% on this – a feature on ‘if you died, who would “they” give your children to?’. It’s one of the most homophobic and vicious pieces of writing I’ve seen in a long time.

And in that situation I’d rather have my child adopted by a loving well-balanced couple who happened to be gay than by some “ideal” couple of god-bothering biased hypocritical ‘holier than thou’ bigots.

After all, isn’t it in the Bible that one should love one’s fellow man? *Grin*

Glowing Christmas Trees

Sometimes the world is just hilarious – radioactive christmas trees from Chernobyl being on sale is one of those times.

Still, I suppose if they glow that well, it saves money on the decorations and lights…