I haven’t written anything in 2 thirds of a lifetime. Actually, today at least I feel genuinely good about things, therapy seems to be going in the right direction at last and I’m filled with an air of optimism. Mind you, if I analyse it too closely i probably would discover that it’s ‘just a feeling.’

I was paid more than I expected for my PC repair by duress, so I guess that’s the silver lining. Oh, and my brother has managed to get hold of tickets for the Arctic Monkeys in Rotherham’s magma centre, sounds like he had to really battle for them so he’s back in my good books Should be potent, the magma centre is a really bizarre venue, on a usual day it’s a large science museum complex. The only other time I’ve been was for a Christmas spectacle, or was it new years eve, anyway lots-o-bands played including royksopp, and pulp’s last ever gig. Oh and there was a Warp stage, which was fun. It was cold as thunder though. God that seems like years ago.

Installed IE 7 beta 2, and my first impressions are a thumbs up. They’ve fixed the problem with my fruit salad bubbles and I’d like to think that was in response to my own personal plight. It seems very peculiar at first because they’ve done away with the menu bar, similar to the vista style they’re going for. I’m all for getting rid of the menu above every single window, but somehow it looks all wrong. Maybe in time… Oh one neat feature i’ve noticed, in the RSS view it lists all the keywords/categories/tags it can see in the feed and shows the relevant entrees (food haha) when you choose one, well I think that’s pretty damn neat. Haven’t had a good fiddle with web standards yet, but all in good time, sir… All in good time.

And that’s all the weather.

UPDATE:
uk.msn.com has seen better days.

I haven’t had much to write about recently. Or it may be that I haven’t felt that anything has been interesting enough to blog about, which in many cases is probably more a mood thing than not actually having something say. But that’s my personality, I go through days of nothing being of interest, like a sulky teenager.

Silly but I’ve got about 8 podcast subscriptions in iTunes, and rarely do I load the app without it downloading something, and yet I didn’t even know what a typical podcast even sounds like until last week, because I hadn’t actually listened to a single one of them. This is endemic to my whole attitude to files and bandwidth, and why I never have any hard drive space left. Anyway, so I tried a few out the other day and one called IT Conversations is pretty interesting. But you’ll have to search for it because for some reason iTunes doesn’t let me copy the url to the clipboard. Grr. Basically they are recordings of lectures made by various techy people. In one some bird from cnet mentioned in passing vizu, a very strange service. You basically set up polls, most are of no virtue. I’m really not sure of the value of this site. But lets see what their copy/paste html code for blogs does. It uses an iFrame, i’m not a fan of iFrames.

My councillor gave me an audiobook to listen to about fighting fear. Sounds gay* but I guess I’d better listen, i’ll need to transfer it to the comp, and then the ipod first though. Which means sampling it and i’m not even sure i’ve got the right leads anymore. Ah well. Guess I’d better get on with it.

* Hey everyone else says it