“All I am is you and all you are is me”
Utter bollocks. It’s reasons like these that I don’t admit that all I am is a songwriter, and all songwriters are is me.
And computer programmers. They are me too.
This laptop just turned itself off. I think it’s a battery issue.
Still, fucking exciting.
Anna’s doing the minute by minute. HERE!
We’ve got the little reviews, and I think that Croatia can’t win. Really, they can’t. I’ll watch this with interest.
Just arrived back from the Indian. I love that post-Jalfrezi feeling.
And it seems that I’ve missed the 24 Eurovision songs. My intentions of minute-by-minute excitement-relay are squashed.
I’ll do my best to give you a few dozen posts by the end of the night though.
China’s prisons produce everything from green tea to coal, paperclips to footballs, medical gloves to high-grade optical equipment.
The Chinese system of re-education through labour is not actually considered to be part of the criminal justice system; it’s just an administrative way of dealing with society’s unacceptable element. A relic of the Mao era, Reform Through Labour allows the police to imprison someone without going through the system – this means they have no access to courts, lawyers, or appeals. It also means that the Chinese can claim that China prohibits export of products made with prison labour, since these institutions are not technically prisons.
And as they are neither prisons nor recognised production facilities, they completely escape international monitoring, which results in the lowest of living and working conditions, in a country where living and working conditions are already horrifically low.
Aside:
Fair Trade Jeans?
I used the last of my swiss francs in a vending machine in Zurich airport, to purchase a thirst-quenching carton of ice tea. Imagine my surprise when I discovered the extra properties that had been hidden round the side of the container…
That little iCal icon in the Dock – why does it always say July 17th until you open the application up? That’s a really stupid piece of design.
Dragging it into oblivion as we speak.
(Insert stock complaint about absence of right mouse buttons here).
And I mended my mum’s laptop this evening too. It was completely failing to connect to any wireless networks whatsoever.
On a Vaio notebook computer, there’s this little switch down by your left wrist, with “OFF” and “ON” options. There are no clues as to exactly what is turned off and on by toggling this little guy. You’d guess, if you had to guess, from its proximity to the memory stick slot, that it turns memory stick access on and off. Well, it doesn’t.
I think you’ve probably guessed how this ends.
UPDATE: And I absolutely love my new 1 megabit ADSL. Pipex have upgraded me from 512kbps for free, and for general web browsing it’s unnoticeable. But when it comes to updating software and downloading large files… phew.