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Fiddly weather

Hot, muggy, hot and now windy (but hot when it is momentarily still). Shame my garden is far too wild to hang the washing out on the line. Having said that, it'd probably blow away anyway.

Strikes called off; yay!

Good news.

Um...

I appear to have a new job. Still here, but now team leader. No more on call (after August as the rota needs to be worked through until then).

Next move, BBC

http://www.bectu.org.uk/news/bbc/nb0259.html

I say again...

Who allows their kids to watch these shows which promote assault? I cannot and never have understood why children should have a television in their bedroom, more often than not connected to Sky/Telewest/NTL with hundreds of channels. How is sending a kid to their bedroom ever a punishment with a TV in there? Why don't parents interact with their children any more?

New home

rmc28 and fanf have kindly offered to take on my kitties when they get back from their honeymoon. Thanks you two!

Ah, John Williams.

Despite several short power cuts in the night which resulted in me having to reboot the boiler this morning, and the sight of a schoolgirl repacking her lunch (a low fat yogurt and a packet of fags) into her handbag (er, so where are her books and homework?), I have no rage this morning. I have the LSO playing John Williams on my iPod, so everything is lovely. I wonder if Episode III music is on iTunes.

Careless society

So, Jackass and Dirty Sanchez are being blamed for the "Happy Slapping" craze amongst children. Why, exactly, are children being allowed to watch these shows? Aren't they a bit... er... Adult?

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday felinitykat! Hope you have a great day.

Wouldn't you simply die without Mahler?

...except I can't remember which film that is from. I thought it was Withnail, but it isn't. Anyway, nice bit of Mahler VII is plenty to get the nerves down after today's fun with LibXML. One thing to entertain today in Metro was in the TV choice section, recommending 'Sex, Lies and Videotape' on... er... BBC Knowledge. That's been BBC4 for almost 2 years now. I knew Metro was slow on the uptake, but that's amazing even for them.

Meh

Where there's nothing to do but procrastinate... meme.

You are 'French'. In the nineteenth century, it
was the international language of diplomacy.
It is a 'beautiful' language, meaning that it
is really just a low-fidelity copy of Latin.

You know the importance of communicating
'diplomatically', which for you means both
being polite and friendly when necessary and
using sophisticated, vicious sarcasm when
appropriate. Your life is guided by either
existentialism or nihilism, depending on the
weather. You have a certain appreciation for
the finer things in life, which is a diplomatic
way of saying that you are a disgusting
hedonist. Your problem is that French has been
obsolete for a long time.


What obsolete skill are you?
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