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We popped out to the pub after lunch to watch the dying embers of the premier league but much as I tried to muster up chanting for Wigan in their match against united I still couldn't find it in my heart to cheer against Bolton's valiant show against the ruskiesChelsea. I'm sure I'll asked to endure the Champions league game in a week or so but it's not so bad following this football malarky, they generally seem to server beer in the places you can watch it.

I've only had a passing eye on the weeks geek news but I did notice slashdot talking about Microsoft's latest censoring of IM conversations. Having said that I'm not sure I can have full confidence in any of the IM service providers. Luckily if you keep away from the official clients you can ensure that what conversation happens between you stays that way. It pays to be paranoid some times ;-)

• From the Hall: GmailThis!
  This are useful java bookmarklet-highlight some text, click the BM, get a pop up containing the text and the page URL, should work in any browser, nice way of emailing useful info or even just storing something.
  (tags: email Google gmail bookmarklet)
• Youtube and embedding correctly - Hapless band of staff and regulars
  Ryan geeks out over YouTube embed code. More useful than it sounds: Iâ™ve yet to work out why Youtube [have] the video at 425×355px, when the resolution is only 320px wide, creating a blocky video as it is badly upscaled. here is the âœeasyâ way to e
  (tags: youtube html embedding)
• Pulp Bard - Quentin Shaksper?
  Actualy rahter amusing: If but one of thy uncouth, base number Stirs with unrest; then every mother's son Of you, I will put in the earth by this My very own long sword; Harken to'it.
  (tags: pulp+fiction humour Shakespeare)
• Whacking G****e back :: The Snow In The Summer or So-So
  Heh! Iain responds to the comments and feedback you lot left on the last post I made linking to him. See, comments are good ;-) Hadn't considered the domain spoofing thing, but at the same time it's supposed to be for blog commenting...
  (tags: Google bloggers)
• The Devil's Kitchen: Nadine Dorries: still a corrupt liar
  I still can't summon the energy and rage to assemble all the links for the Dorries attack - fortunately DK's done the job for me. If you only read one post on the odious lying disingenous anti-science zealot, this is a pretty good summary.
  (tags: Nadine+Dorries)

• 19:29 so the next Doctor Who spin off is... #

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I’m coping with the ‘heat’ by sitting in my pants and drinking Zubrowka with apple juice. Not that I need an excuse for either of those things. And the temperature has been rather comfortable today. Except when I decided to take the 25 bus home. Now my issue with bendy buses is how stuffy they get and that they don’t run enough of them on busy routes after midnight. In the world according to Boris Johnson they started World War II, are responsible for the Rwandan genocide (dead picaninnies!) and the repealing of Section 28. However if anyone has any real reason why we should get rid of them (at great expense to the taxpayer) please let me know.

Last night I went out to celebrate the destruction of Adam’s liver at a bar in Farringdon. I had lots of fun, didn’t buy a single drink (thank fuck. £8 for a gin and tonic!) and ended up staying much later than I anticipated. I ended up flirting with a friend who I thought liked me and we agreed to meet for coffee today but it didn’t happen. Woe, rejection, despair. Etc. I’ll live.

So instead today I went to the Idea Store at Whitechapel to return some ideas I’d borrowed. Yeah, I hate that concept. It’s a fucking library, and the old Whitechapel public library was a rather admirable piece of Victorian architecture. The only reason people go to the Idea Store is to use the computers there, and you can just open a community computer centre for that. *grumble, grumble* Anyway, I lunched in Whitechapel, walked to Spitalfields. Again. And I bet I’ll be there again tomorrow for the market. I’d yell “what’s the appeal?!” but it has nice coffee shops, nice pubs, quirky shops, good restaurants and food outlets and is a nice mix of old and new. I ended up chatting to a Socialist Workers Party activist there about the BNP. I signed their petition (for all the good it will do) and bought a copy of the Socialist Worker. I read it and I see where they’re coming from but they’re a bit too much of a hard swerve to the left for me. And a bit too self righteous. From the City I walked to the West End and went into the British Museum to browse the Stuff™ and then headed home for a siesta. I was supposed to go meet gays in Retro this evening but failed. And then tried to organise pubbage elsewhere with other gays but failed on that account. So I’ve defaulted to Zubrowka. And Grey’s Anatomy. And Battlestar Galactica. And my pants.

Originally published at An Unwritten Novel. You can comment here or there.

• BOFH: Shiny new computer room | The Register
  El Reg shifted the feed BOFH was on (again) and I hadn't noticed. Been in this sort of meeting a few times, in such a discussion, backing up the MD or the tech, the tech wins. Every time. (reg_bofh is new syndication account BTW)
  (tags: BOFH the+register)
• Blah blah blah - Beloved Intertubes,
  Sparkle has a job interview, and could do with the help of People of Faith, so, y'know go help her (it's a good job): I need to do a short presentation (as if it were to the local Church Council) entitled Teenagers: Faith in a Materialistic Age.
  (tags: religion jobs friends)