Audience of One

The ninth miscellany

People are still finding this site by Googling for “disowning parents”, which worries me as I’ve never written about this. Like I’ve said before – not a good idea. There was also the question “what do octopus eat?”, to which my answer would “it’s octopi, not octopus” where it not for the fact that Wikipedia tells me otherwise. Amazingly, “she’s got a chicken to ride” was featured. Finally, we have the (fragmented) question “Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson dating?” and the answer “Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson are dating” featured with one hit each. (Note: I’ve no idea if this is true, but if it is, you really shouldn’t care.)

In Japan-related news, there’s nothing like living with 8Mb/sec broadband for almost three months to make a 1Mb/sec connection seem unbearably slow. Also, it’s the Japanese for “excuse me” (sumimasen) that I’ve been saying automatically.

Muse’s “disco space rock” on their new album is really good, and Keane have really improved as well. The Death Cab album’s as good as I remembered, and Thom Yorke’s album is good, but not quite Radiohead.

I’ve just discovered Delicious Library which is a rather over-the-top but fun way of keeping track of who I’ve leant DVDs and books to. I’ve just started filling it out, so currently it’s a bit sparse.

The thing I found interesting when I first ran it was the list of “borrowers” that it imported from my address book. It imported family only (using my surname), but, even though there is no distinction in the address book between male and female, it assigned a female icon to my mum and aunt, and a male icon to my dad. (My brother gets his custom icon.) Very clever.

Anyway, enough for now. I’ve managed to write an entry for each day this month so far, but from Saturday I won’t have internet access for a week. Six more entries in two days? I doubt it. (That would equal my record.)

Currently listening to Muse – City of Delusion

Matthew @ 13:48, July 20, 2006 to Miscellaneous | Comments (7)