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While she's having a smoke... and he's taking a drag.

Okay, last night I actually made one of (I think) the most important decisions of my life so far, the result of these decisions lies beneath:

... I really hope I've made the right decisions now...

Update:

I've just discovered this.

UPDATE!

I use google.toolbar for firefox and I feel a lil' shit so I just typed in 'I feel li" and the first suggestion it gives is "I feel like shit"! How... strange... now, come to think of it.

Here endeth the updates.

Maria, Maria, where did you go?

Yo. You may remember that ages ago I watched an episode of The Weakest Link and complained about it on here. I watched another episode last week, some of the questions I had most difficulty with follow in this post.

Weakest Link.
Episode Aired on 06/04/06, 17.30 on BBC2.
Up until this week I thought the show had an actual requirement for people with dodgy spelled names, last time I complained we saw 'Ann' and 'Clare', which are just plain silly; 'Ann' should always be spelt Anne and 'Clare' should always be spelled Claire or, occasionally, as Clara. However, this week they even managed to spell 'Kain' correctly, unfortunately it appears that the research team for the show had employed too much energy correctly spelling the contestants names and therefore could not properly research questions. We were thus dealt these conundrums:

What is the name given to a complex at which planes board and disembark passengers?

• The correct answer was not given by the contestant, surprisingly, but is, of course, Air Port.

In relation to consumerism, what does the abbreviation "Ad" stand for?

• Again, the poor contestant could not complete this intellectual quest and failed to answer. The correct answer is 'Advertisement'.
  

... and my favourite:

What is the name given to the little bits of bread left out in gardens for birds?

• Once more the contestant failed! ... The correct answer, crumbs!
  

... Unfortunately the contestants weren't the only ones who had difficulty answering the questions, when my dad was asked by ol' Anne, "What is the only vowel used in Roman Numerals?" his answer, and not even immediate answer, was "C! It's C!". I now have an excuse in waiting for my crap A-level grades...

Toodles,
Marin

Finding It Hard To Smile*

Okay, I might've done something naughty. About a month ago I discovered this fantastic thing called 'Google Analytics' and put my name down for an account when one became available, because the graphs looked cool and I liked traffic counters...
Thing is, having received and accepted the invitation today I've discovered that the stat's are aimed at marketing and keyword analysis. I'm not sure whether this blog counts as a business, see...
However, upon having a quick dash through the TaC of the service I can't find anything that says individuals cannot make use of the service... so I'll see if I get any criticism and maybe ask Mullany on his take on it, but I don't think there should be any problem using it :)
More Google News, they have a new 'beta' service. It has GOT TO BE SEEN! I think it's the funniest thing I have ever seen sprout from old Google!
... and that's me shutting up about internet-tech for the time being.
Oh, just watching "Davina" on BBC1. It's fucking awful. No bullshitting about with clever metaphors, just plain fucking awful. Actually, it's so awful the BBC doesn't even have a dedicated page for me to link to!
Ohhh... thank you bbc.co.uk, you just found me the new random link.
Anyway, back to Private Eye!

*Bastard life.