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Today has been one of those days where everything feels fresh and new and as if it is happening for the first time. Perhaps it is the light touch of spring, the crisp blue sky, perhaps it is the faint touch of hope in the air, who knows. The cause is not important, making it last is, perhaps, the bigger challenge.

But there seem to have been a number of events today which were the first of their type, for this year anyway. Starting with this morning when I watched Barack Obama make ...

With Netscape nightmares
of glowing TFT hells
my downtime surfing

is a Netmare of
suppressed visual fears
& cyber-terror.

Waking with cold sweats
worrying about evil
bot-nets & foul play

I dread to think now
of Conficker; go figure
what that was about!

Or is it now called
Downadup? – Doesn't add up
anyway tonight.

P2P: I see,
can ...

All aliens are
We: Strange & otherworldly
From the respective

Worlds, galaxies &
Various odd planetoids
Which we inhabit.

I feel alien
Anyhow, there again, I
Always felt like this.

Is it the fact that
I am just imagining
All of this weirdness?

My own special type
of Verfremdungseffekt
On the stage of life;

Alien life, that
Is, if the truth's ...

Okay as promised, i'd tell you all how the no smoking thing is going.
It is officially two weeks since i threw that packet of cigarettes into the bin at the train station! Two whole weeks! I seriously didnt think i'd last this long but i think even my mind was ready to fight the battle against nicotine.
It has been a slightly tough two weeks but not as bad as it has been in the past. I've had a few cravings but nothing major and i havent been aggrivated to the point when i wanted to ...

Rich’s dealings with the tax collector got my ire up. There have been a couple of things lately that outraged me. Let me name them.

First, these stupid environmentally “friendly” light bulbs. They cost three or four times what a regular light bulb costs, but it’s supposed to last for ten years and save you a bundle. Ok, less than a year ago I bought some and I put them over my kitchen spot lights that shine over the counter. It hasn’t even been a year and one of them burned out. ...