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*sigh* I hate this feeling. I can’t sit around the house much longer. Having spent the weekend at home I am now bored. I feel like going out for a walk and picking up something to watch tonight. I however always feel guilty when I do something like that. I didn’t feel up to going to work but I’m able to go out and do stuff…ok not much stuff but still the point stands.

I can’t find two of my Feist books, I’m reading the second book in the Krondor series The Assassins and I don’t seem to have the third and final book in the series. Looking at the cover on Amazon I am pretty sure I have it…somewhere. It could be still in Dublin. But reading the reviews also, I am not sure I have actually read it. I know that if I go and pick it up, I’ll end up finding it tonight.

Trillian Pro is not rocking my world as I hoped it would, it does not appear to be all that much more than a new skin and the ability to use plugins. I’m still using Mozilla 1.2a alot but I’m find it a little slow and clunky at times. IE is a much smoother expierence.

…include Allison Janney, John Spencer, Stockard Channing and The West Wing for best show. We like that, we also note and like that 24’s pilot episode was rewarded for best writing 🙂

I’m feeling pretty bad this morning so in local news headlines: Team decimated by plague. Mystery illness spreads amongst the population…or in other words I’m not the only one out with a case of flu.

DAREDEVIL VOL. 1
Cover By Alex Maleev
Brian Michael Bendis (w)/Alex Maleev (p & i)

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In a word cha ching. This will be mine oh yes.

I don’t feel very well right now. I don’t know what it is. I’m hoping its just a 48 hour hangover and I’m not coming down with anything but seen as this just really kicked in a couple of hours ago I’m not so sure.

I don’t feel tired at all and I’m pretty sure I’m not going to sleep tonight and you know how much thats gonna help.

I checked my work mail earlier. 17 of 40 new messsages were scam emails asking for my passwords. Thats just fucking shit. I really really wish they would all just fuck right off.

The Skulls; again another movie I borrowed from Iain. Just spent the last couple of hours watching it and it was surprisingly good. For a teen thriller it had a pretty decent plot and moved along really well. An absolutely outstanding supporting cast including William ‘CSI‘ Petersen, Steve ‘The Practice‘ Harris, Nigel ‘Forver Knight Bennett and Christopher ‘Ive been in everything’ McDonald. A good movie, worth a look if you get the chance.

I really really have to appreciate my friends more.

and yes my fucking neighbours decided it was fine to use an electric drill at 8:55 AM on a Sunday morning. I was less than impressed to be woken up by this.

1. Would you say that you’re good at keeping in touch with people?
No, I’m pretty bad at it. It is something I really need to work on,
2. Which communication method do you usually prefer/use: e-mail, telephone, snail mail, blog comments, or meeting in person? Why?
Othe: IM or in person. It’s just very easy to talk to someone over IM.
3. Do you have an instant messenger program? How many? Why/why not? How often do you use it?
Yes, ICQ, Y!, MSN and AIM all through Trillian. I’m online with something around 10 hours a day usually.
4. Do most of your close friends live nearby or far away?
Far far away
5. Are you an “out of sight, out of mind” person, or do you believe that “distance makes the heart grow fonder”?
Hmm, I don’t know.

Good Will Hunting I don’t know quite why I hadn’t seen this movie before. Well I do I guess, I don’t like Matt Damon or Ben Affleck as actors. I’ve never really enjoyed their performances in any movies. The same goes for Minnie Driver but she got major bonus points for the excellent Grosse Point Blank and indeed for Good Will Hunting. I borrowed it from Iain during the week, having always intended to see it at some stage it was looking at me from the shelf in Blockbuster last week and I remembered I could borrow it. So I watched it late last night and I really enjoyed it. A pretty damn good movie with Robin Williams in another standout role. I’ll be picking this up on dvd at some stage. A special editon would be nice!

I’ve been trying to install Moveable Type for the past couple of days with the plan to move over to that. I have however run into a small problem which I can’t figure out nor is there any details about to cover in the help and despite all of Iain’s help, its just not working. I’m going to run the server error logs past some people in work on Monday and see if they can make any suggestions (hi Dave) otherwise it will be Blogger all the way. If it does work, there will be a new template up here soonish so I can move everything over and publish with MT. Otherwise it is just going to have to wait till I’m bothered.

Oh and another couple of things about last night. As it was coming to the end of the night, I was informed that there was of course the obligatory few minutes required on the dance floor. Luckily enough (sic) I had drunk enough to agree to this and we moved from the bar. Literally as we stepped onto the dance floor they kicked off Rythem is a Dancer so that was good and this was followed by Bille Jean so we are still on the all good. Then it got better…for a few seconds. One of my favourite songs of all time and in my opinions Queen’s best song Under Pressure kicked off. It has a very distinctive intro and I was quite happy with this. However the look of happiness from my face changed to shock then to confusion and then to disgust. They were playing Ice Ice, Baby by Vanilla fucking Ice. Of course he not only sampled but according to internet rumour stole; Under Pressure for this early ninties hit.

I’ve just watched the original unaired pilot for Birds of Prey and I wasn’t all that impressed. I know a fair bit of it has been reshot but it wasn’t great. A cute cast in leather is a plus but I really don’t like the amount of changes they made with continuity. Helena is not Batman and Catwoman’s daughter, that’s just bad. Also there is no way Oracle would be telling anyone Batman’s identity as Bruce Wayne for any reason. I’m gonna check out the new version of the pilot and the first few episodes but I suspect it will rank the same as Smallville. I’ll watch it if it is on and I’m not doing anything else. Other than that not really pushed.