Flags

I always thought it was strange that it didn’t matter where you went in the US you where constantly bombarded with the stars and stripes. Every little town had a flag, every other house had a flag, every other building had a flag, every other person was wearing some sort of star spangled banner clothing.
Over the last few days I realised it was just because we seemed scared to show our own flag. The Union Flag was always associated with neo-nazis and the National Front.
Seeing The Mall decked out in Union Flags and the front of Buckingham Palace bathed in projections of St Georges cross, Union Flags and other such emblems made me realise patriotism isn;t strange at all. In fact maybe we are strange for not showing a pride in our country.

I wonder how many St George Flags will still be flying if the team get kicked out of the world cup? It seems a shame that it takes the Queen’s Golden Jubilee and the World Cup before we show any semblance of national pride.

hospital smell

I discovered over the weekend that hospitals smell of insulin. Either that or insulin smells of hospitals. Wonder why that is?

Dirty Stop Out!

Lovely day. The whole dogs and babies thing happened again. My brothers house is in a square and I spent the day trying not to flirt with his neighbour! Gorgeous as he was.
A bank holiday weekend is not the same without a trip to B&Q so of course we managed to fit one in!
Back to London and I never quite made it back to my own flat.

Purple in the Park

Purple was fun. Met Andrew before hand and then met Paulie in the park followed by Colin who I haven’t seen in ages. Then Scally and the usual blogger suspects. Jonathan and Markie and Ian. I also met up with Steve who was over from Amsterdam for the weekend.
I eventually made it home earlyish as I am travelling down to Farborough to see my niece and assorted family on the Sunday.

I am such a geek

I am also probably a little sad as I got very excited over a…
vacuum cleaner last night. I bought a Dyson DC07 Animal and it arrived yesterday.
I never knew jack had so much hair!
Dinner and drinks in Clapham was very nice – The Rapscallion no longer does chocolate sushi for dessert but it was still a delicious meal. Briefly met up with Scally and Bo [text chef] to collect my ticket for purple in the park. Unfortunately it was already midnight by the time Andrew and I had finished dinner so it was a very brief meet up.

I can’t believe it…

Dogs and babies allegedly mean you have an excuse to talk to anyone. I never really saw this as a benefit until today.
I was out walking Jack on Streatham Common when I noticed a man on a bike. Jack noticed him too. You know how dogs are. So after a brief introduction I was firmly ensconced in The Waterfront having pizza and drinks with a rather nice young man called Andrew.

on my hitlist currently

You know how sometimes there are no films you want to see at the cinema? Well this summer is the opposite for me. My current hitlist – in no particular order – include;
The Bourne Identity – purely for Matt Damon you understand 😉
Spiderman – gotta you know – cartoon to film it has to be cool.
Not Another Teen Movie – mental chewing gum you know!
40 days and 40 nights – looks kinda fun
The Time Machine – sci fi classic by HG Wells remade!
Minority Report – cool trailer which had me engrossed. Oh and it is sci fi!

Big Brother fans protest over net fees

Disgruntled viewers have criticised Channel 4 for charging ?9.99 per month
to watch live Big Brother action over the internet. About 1,000 people
have signed an online petition protesting at the fee for live streaming,
but Channel 4 argues that it is a better service than the free one last
year. A spokeswoman apologised for disappointing viewers but added that
the channel was faced with no other choice after posting its first annual
loss in a decade.
[BBC]

Virus Behaviour:

Once executed the worm searches the Windows address book, ICQ database, and local files for email addresses then it sends an email message to these addresses with itself as an attachment. The worm contains its own SMTP engine. The from address is forged and is made up of an email address it has found within the infected computer, thus making it harder to trace. With this in mind please be aware that you may receive a virus notification informing you that you have sent a virus when this might not necessarily be the case.
Grrrrrr My email address is being used to spam 🙁 I just got loads of bounced errors.
Not happy 🙁

Star Wars Episode II – Attack of the Clones

I went to see it last night – I suprised myself and enjoyed it for the most part. Dave sent me this today which remonded me I have not written anything about it yet;

A furious light sabre duel is under way. DARTH VADER is backing LUKE
SKYWALKER toward the end of the gantry. A quick move by Vader, chops off
Luke’s hand! It goes spinning off into the ventilation shaft. Luke backs
away. He looks around, but realizes there’s nowhere to go but straight down.

DARTH VADER: “Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father.”
LUKE: “He told me enough! He told me you killed him!”
DARTH VADER: “No! I am your father!”
LUKE: “No, it’s not true! It’s impossible.”
DARTH VADER: “Search your feelings; you know it to be true.”
LUKE: “NO!”
DARTH VADER: “Yes, it is true and you know what else? You know that brass
droid of yours?”
LUKE: “Threepio?”
DARTH VADER: “Yes, Threepio, I built him when I was seven years old.”
LUKE: “No.”
DARTH VADER: “Seven years old? And what have you done? Look at yourself, no
hand, no job, and couldn’t even levitate your own ship out of the swamp.”
LUKE: “I destroyed your precious Death Star!”
DARTH VADER: “When you were 20! When I was 10, I single-handedly destroyed a
Trade Federation Droid Control ship!”
LUKE: “Well, it’s not my fault.”
DARTH VADER: “Oh, here we go. ‘Poor me, my father never gave me what I
wanted for my birthday, boo hoo, my daddy’s the Dark Lord of the Sith ..
waahhh wahhh!'”
LUKE: “Shut up.”
DARTH VADER: “You’re a slacker! By the time I was you’re age, I had
exterminated the Jedi knights!”
LUKE: “I used to race my T-16 through Beggar’s Canyon!”
DARTH VADER: “Oh, for the love of the Emperor, 10 years old, winner of the
Boonta Eve Open. Only human to ever fly a Pod Racer, right here baby!”
Luke looks down the shaft. Takes a step toward it.
DARTH VADER: “I was wrong. You’re not my kid. I don’t know whose you are,
but you sure ain’t mine.”
Luke takes a step off the platform, hesitates, then plunges down the shaft.
Darth Vader looks after him.
DARTH VADER: “And get a haircut!”