some random notes

Pushing a 1.5 tonne truck around by yourself is a good way to make your back feel really, really sore. On the plus side, a couple of beers make it hurt less.

"Wonderwall" is the new "Stairway to Heaven" when it comes to people playing covers in pubs. On the plus side, a cover version has 100% less Gallagher brother.

Phillip Ruddock is still a fucking prick. No plus side here, except I guess that we get to wake up each day knowing we are not Phillip Ruddock.

I would also like a pony

How's this for a new strategy in Iraq?

Pressed on why he thought this strategy would succeed where previous efforts had failed, Mr. Bush shot back: “Because it has to.”

Sigh.


Completely unrelated: I've posted a shortish review of the new project by the Kazaa/Skype folks "The Venice Project" over at my other blog. TVP is an attempt to bring on-demand streaming TV-quality video to the internet. It's pretty impressive from a video quality perspective, at least.