Romance will come you way soon.

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• More readers and commenters on Rocknerd pls kthx.

• The greatest feature of Vista is its security.

• Someone, somewhere, thought this was a good idea.

• PENIS POWER.

• Housework template (courtesy shimgray) and other motivational dishwashing.

It's on-call week! And I'm actually working for a living: all go yesterday from 6am until midnight. Today was quiet until evening, and I'm still trying to work out what the arsing fuck is actually making things not work right — all systems look "100% perfect, boss!" except the minor detail of the actual output being utterly broken. Argh.

jagaroth swung through town on Tuesday and redcountess and I met him for a pint or several at Victoria. feanelwa popped over today to help amuse Freda, who looked most put-out at the clean floor until we gave her a cupcake to crumble across it.

My poor little disposable MP3 player has died. Bah. I could take a soldering iron to it or I could just buy a new one. What's the finest in cheap and cheerful MP3 players?

I am currently hitting Jamendo for CC-licensed music. Most of it's demo-quality indie or mediocre home-made techno. Some of the EBM isn't awful, some is. "Intelligent dance music" is neither.