Richard+Hazel were yesterday joined in holy matrimony :-)

Richard was missing the first time the DJ played Barbie Girl, so when he returned we made the DJ play it again. And we made Richard dance to it wearing a pink wig.

Spoddom is glancing at your desktop, seeing that night now covers England and Wales on your wallpaper, then sneaking a look out your window to confirm that, yes, dusk has fallen.

I’m considering writing sshfs for Windows. I must be mad. Gah.

Installed Xplanet on my mac. This pleases me, even though it doesn’t seem as slick as it did on my old Red Hat box over 5 years ago; I have to type a shell command on the mac, but it Just Worked on Red Hat, wtf?

Anyway, screenshot :-)

Saw some Labour people campaigning for Ken Livingstone the other day. They were handing out leaflets urging people not to vote for Boris Johnson because he’d supported invading Iraq, which seemed a bit hypocritical. And it’s not like London’s Mayor gets to decide whether to send troops to war.

Anyway. I know I’m voting for Brian Paddick; I don’t know who to give my second preference to. Tell me who should be my second choice, LiveJournal, and why.

Does eating too many dates make you tired?

London 0–2 Paris.

If only it had been coming through London today, I would have only needed to sneeze at it.

I’d thought it was going to be warm and sunny this weekend.

When I am in a supermarket, I want to concentrate on buying things I need, and do not want to be distracted by advertising. That is why I unpeeled the advert from the inside of the shopping basket (and left it in a freezer).

I forgot to buy bread and am blaming it on this. (I bought it from Tesco’s when I remembered.)

I remember hearing somewhere that it all started going wrong for LiveJournal financially after they started putting adverts on the site. I would like to check this, but I cannot find their financial results.

Does anyone know where I can find financial results for LiveJournal? I am aware they’ve never been (part of) a public company, so they might not be available at all.

Oh, happy equinox everyone. It was about 8 hours ago.

I’ve felt a lot over the past 5 years that opponents of the war in Iraq made a terrible mistake in mostly arguing that it was wrong in principle rather than on practical grounds.

( Duties of oppositions )

Yeah, well, bollocks to that. It turns out the Americans had a better occupation plan all along, but it got tossed out at the last moment (see also).

I despair sometimes, I really do.

I hope this persuades people to stop buying the Express and the Star. I hope the Diana fans will realise their Diana stories are as poorly founded as their Madeleine rubbish.

The comments aren’t bad either (unusual for a Guardian blog post).

This is genius. Someone wondered what the BBC News 24 titles would look like with some different TV theme music.

( So he found out, and posted the results on YouTube )

I think I like it with the Match of the Day theme best.

ITV 4 are supposed to be replaying this morning’s grand prix in full right now, but they’re showing yesterday’s qualifying instead.

Yes, ITV 1 are showing it at 3pm. Yes, I saw it live (and stayed up listening to the cricket and had no sleep and feel bouncy). Emma slept and would like to watch it now.

( ITV claim they meant to show qualifying all along )

( Then why does their website imply otherwise? )

I have that horrible “Oh no, I didn’t leave my glasses in Liverpool, did I?” feeling.

Still in Liverpool: We went to a Wetherspoons for food. It happened to be showing the Barnsley-Chelsea match (pictures, no sound) — we saw the last fifteen minutes. After a few tense minutes, the pub erupted into applause at the final whistle.

Cricket commentary is a calming background noise to fall asleep to. I fell asleep soon after New Zealand were at 1-1, and was woken up by Monty Panesar taking the 7th wicket.

I’m in Liverpool. It’s very windy.

I now weigh 70kg (11st). This may be the most I have ever weighed.

My weight seems to be quantised. Whenever I weigh myself (not very often) my weight only ever changes in units of ½st.