Random updatey bits.

I'm glad the police took this seriously. 'Prank' implies something harmless, when we've had multiple accounts of viral party invites leading to riots. And I'm trying to imagine being a sixteen year old girl knowing that an older guy is engaging in harassment of you leading to the possibility that at least dozens of male ( Read more... )

Out of curiosity I looked up the more detailed Chinese Zodiac. I am a Yin Wood Rabbit. According to traditional Chinese astrology, the Rabbit is quiet, reserved, retrospective, thoughtful and lucky. In Chinese astrological thought, a "rabbit person" is graceful, cultured and well-mannered. Although Rabbit people get along well with many people, ( Read more... )

Fridays, Arr me Hearties!

It's incredibly Friday today, if by that you mean my coworker flailing his arms and yelling "I have a porn mustache! I have come to clean zee pool!" He is quite correct, he really does have one.

The discussion of the Papua New Guinea women who have been killing their sons to prevent violent tribal war that is ( Read more... )

The Fritzl case, trigger stuff below the cut.

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Life is crazy. Tomorrow I have to be in at work at 8:30 (a bit of a challenge for someone with this long a trip to work!) in order to attend the inaugural opening of the Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre. I have managed to get halloween stuff and candy for the office. Met with Brian Hardy from Vision Australia to discuss the new W3C ( Read more... )

A few things!

Apparently some friends/folk (who, I don't know) have been under the misapprehension that I was involved in a relationship with someone that has recently broken up and thus gossip is doing the rounds. This is not so, I'm still happily married to chaos_crafter, and that's my sole/soul relationship. I do have lots of friends, and I like hugging ( Read more... )

This week's dose of cynicismI'm getting it out of my system before going to VNV tomorrow night ( Read more... )

VNV Nation
We are going! On Friday! To VNV Nation concert! If anyone else is going, can you let me know here? Or send this on to other people. We are thinking of meeting folks in the city (aka, dilph, maybe lirion first and going in for the early drinks beforehand or just general socialising so that by the time the band actually comes on we collapse from ( Read more... )

Because I need something after the disrupted sleep last night and my exhaustion this morning:

California ushers in gay marriagesBy North America correspondent Kim Landers ( Read more... )

Hello folks!

Various things going on today, so who knows where this is going. Work is about to do my head in. Also, I keep losing connection at home, so if email goes missing, try sending to my gmail account.

News
Nojoud Muhammed Nasser is an incrediably brave eight year old girl:
Nojoud Muhammed Nasser arrived at court by herself on Wednesday ( Read more... )