Stupid Shit

This could possibly be the stupidest event ever: Box Wars!. Needless to say, I have two tickets.

Not to mention these nut crackers... Must... Hide... Creditcard...

Speaking of Silly Shit

This thing will annoy the heck out of you: Cursors.

Fark

Just what I need, another website to fart around on.

I seem to have joined twitter which has to be the most hyperactive idea for a website...

I'm at maxcelcat if you really must know to the minute what I'm up to... :-)

Giving a Laptop

The folks once at One Laptop Per Child are having a brief public offering in November. You can buy yourself one of them, but the price will cover two of them - one for you, one for some needy kid somewhere. Details at XOGiving.

Now, a good argument could be made - in fact, I've made the argument myself in the past - that these kids probably need more fundamental aid than these gizmo's. There's a good change this will turn out to be a horrible boondoggle. But hey, if it has a chance to help educate some kids... I guess we won't knot for fifteen years till some bright nerd from an underdeveloped country is sitting in the next cubicle because of one of these things...

Anyway, I'm thinking of getting one. It would be useful to have a fairly indestructible laptop, and who knows, maybe some Cambodian kid who has to skirt a field full of land mines to get to school will get something out of it...

Weird Comic

Is is just me, or is this comic just a bit weird: The New Adventures Of Queen Vicoria.

A bit like a toned-down Get Your War On or something. (Thinks: I was wearing my Get Your War On T-shirt today...)

OK. Totally time for bed...

Vague Travel Plans

Wait, I was off to bed wasn't I? Damn.

Anyway, just to alert you readers from London, the rest of Europe, and the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area:

I have vague plans to be in London for two weeks and possibly the US for two weeks in the middle of 2008.

Yes, I know it'll be winter.

And... I can only really do it if someone can off me a couch to sleep on for at least three of the four weeks I'm out of the country.

And if anyone has any suggestions how I should go (Melb->London->Washington->Melb or Melb->London->Washington->London->Melb or even Melb->London->Washington->LAX->Melb) let me know. I haven't traveled much, to put it mildly. But I do have a passport, which is a good start :-)