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the words are different

October 7th, 2008

My sisters used to squee over this A-ha! video back in the day. I couldn’t figure out what the video was about then, and I still can’t now.

Fortunately, other folks had the same problem - and they reworked the video, with new lyrics. The guy hits the high notes and everything. Obviously, the new lyrics score for clarity, if not exactly for squee-worthiness.

I can see my country from here

October 4th, 2008

Well, actually - I cannot, but go look anyway. Worldmapper provides maps of the world with sizes relative to various criteria; most of them arcane.

Endlessly fascinating if your interests include geography and a bit of statistics.

In other news, I seem to have more or less lost my self in activities outside the internet since I came back here. Trying to resume online behaviour in small steps. When I was living in the UK, life was more measured.

I do about the same amount of work there as here (different sorts of work, so it’s apples to research work really) but I feel more a bystander, more detached in the UK than I do here. Here, I’m somehow more in the middle of things and that leaves me precious little time to concentrate on internetterly activity. A large part of this can be attributed to living close to family - it’s much more difficult to lead a hermit-like existence when you’re sharing a city with my folks.

But in the meantime, at least life outside the internet is finally beginning to pick up.

warring

August 25th, 2008

So I’ve been a tad preoccupied with work recently. What else is new, you might ask… Well, when I stuck my head out of the gopher hole called work, peered around in a meerkat fashion … I discovered that there had been a beautiful little shooting war in Georgia.

So call me ghoulish, heartless or whatever but I happen to like Red Storm Rising and the bustup between Georgia and Russia seems to be the closest we’re going to get to conventional forces going at it. Despite getting a bloody nose in Chechnya a decade ago, the Russians won this one on the trot. Was anyone surprised? I wasn’t.

But then, I discovered The War Nerd. OMGWTF. VIDEO! Warporn!