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QuizGalaxy.com Okay, before people go on about spookiness, this wasn't actually the first try. 'Twas the second. I'd have to agree with Luis - it is a little difficult to take seriously, especially when it gives differing results for the same input...
Then again, I sincerely doubt it's meant to be taken seriously.
The 'silly season' was fairly low-key: visited the folks in Squiddley (that's Sydney for the uninitiated). Not really much of a haul - with the family spread around as much as it is these days, gift-giving tends to be more of a redistribution of wealth than involving actual physical gifts. Of course, said redistributed wealth is intended to be put towards something special rather than the costs of living, so after a visit to a specialty bookshop I came out with three novels and a mythozoology book (the first of which I possibly could have found in Canberra, while the second... well, good luck. Most bookshops these days it's hard to find any proper mythology book in among all the New Age crud.) I was also somewhat irritated to find a book on the shelves that I'd ordered via Amazon and was still waiting to arrive, but that arrived not long after I got back so 'tis all good. (Mind you, it was somewhat embarassing that I was the first to see the parcels they'd arrived in, but since they were in large plastick-y bags I assumed someone had just put a few bags of rubbish out and walked straight past. But I digress.)
Also saw the new Harry Potter there - which probably makes the first one I actually saw in the cinema. 'Course, I haven't read the book yet (only got to read the first three in early December, and the person I borrowed them off has the later ones loaned to someone else) but Mum says that if you're going to watch a movie and read the book and you haven't already done the latter you should watch first - that way you don't spend the movie grumbling about all the inconsistencies. She probably has a point... although I wouldn't suggest trying it with LOTR. Or if you do, do it with the extended editions... and don't be afraid to view them as six two-hour movies rather than three four-hour presentations.
Anyway, that's enough rambling. New Years' was basically lunch and a swim (Australia, remember?) with some high-school friends and the crowd they associate with (I've mostly drifted into a different crowd since starting university and don't see them much... and besides, the university crowd tends to scatter at this time of year) followed by a couple of games of poker before New Year. Not for real money, unfortunately, since I came out ahead in both games... although I'm sure my opinion would have been very different if it had been the other way around!
Anyway, I hope the first week of 2006 has treated everyone well. (By the standards of things happening in this week alone, of course. If it's been horrible due to the ramifications of things that happened before New Year, that's unfortunate, but you can't really blame this year for it *grin*.)