Diary for the past week.

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• Australia: a nation of pooftahs. SEVENTEEN PER CENT!

• Joe Strummer Remembrance Sunday, Brighton, November 9th. Includes a Carter USM non-reformation.

• "The mainstream consumer has made it absolutely plain time and time again that the price he or she will pay for standard new-release items of leisure software, be they books, movies, pop albums, graphic novels, concert tickets or absolutely anything else, is £15, give or take a couple of quid ... Development costs just don't come into it. They're nothing but a red herring."

• Probabilities in Monopoly.

I believe I have one of these 'lives,' amongst the geeky whining. Last Monday I went to the Dev with arkady, and my goodness I've missed it. Howdy to bootpunk. Tuesday, redcountess and I had a Quiet Night In. I think we watched The Blues Brothers again.

Wednesday I visited arkady in St Albans and discovered that, although the Casio MP3 Watch is really quite 'l33t, the software is crapware of such proportions as to reliably crash Windows XP when you try to upload certain files. Why in God's name don't these fuckers just make their gadgets umass devices? What's the fucking problem?

(I willingly fix arkady's XP box for her. It must be love.)

Thursday we watched silveraj on Richard and Judy. I also had a win on the beer from Sainsburys - we ordered three bottles of Hobgoblin on a three-for-two deal, then discovered the bottles in question had a bonus "32% free." Mmm, beer.

Friday we had another Quiet Night In, after a Bugger of a Week. Saturday I took care of redcountess and arkady. And went onto #uk_goffs for the first time in almost a year. I also cleaned up FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE QUANTITIES OF WINDOWS VIRUSES. Sunday I sent arkady off to work and settled in for a lovely quiet day with the Liz.

Yesterday I discovered the part of the company I work for is to be sold. Except the subsection I work for, which won't be. This may help explain why I've been having an interesting time of late dealing with some workplace issues. Not that everyone here (and across this industry) isn't quite used to working for four companies in three years while doing the same job at the same desk.

We also saw an actual new episode of Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

The rats have worked out how to escape their cage. I foresee a larger playground for them in the near future.

Cosy Domesticity: it's dull, but it's cheap!