I must admit that while I do have a facebook account, it’s not something that occupies a huge amount of my time. There are too many irritating things about it. I for one am constantly bombarded with requests to do this or that, or bite another zombie, or take a movie taste challenge. To be honest I have neither the time nor the inclination. A lot of the people who send these are good friends of mine, and I always feel really bad when I ignore the request of my girlfriend, or a close friend, but I have decided on principle not to do them.

But yesterday, having signed on, I found a new crack-like way to pass the time, and that was the ‘recommended friend’ feature. And there was a whole evening gone. Now I have another rule when it comes to social networking sites, which is to only accept the friendship of people who I have actually met, or at least spoken to enough to genuinely call them a friend. But nevertheless, so many old acquaintances made my head dizzy. Now to sit back and see if any of them remember me.

This weekend I am spending a rather pleasant weekend with my ladies, but it is being somewhat undercut by the constant wave of nausea that hits me when I remember that I will, in the next few days, be finding out if I have a tremendously exciting new job. So to distract myself from this question, I present you with a picture of my little Rosie. Isn’t she cute?

Well, I bought the fifth season of 24 on DVD, and I’m ashamed to say that it has eaten my life. Oh well.

One of the joys of YouTube is searching for random artists and finding gems, such as this one:

More postage once I know what happens at the end of the season.

I wish I could say I was the one to find this, but Jen deserves all the credit in the world for unearthing this little gem. It’s a simple little website called (and I shit you not) ‘Sex In Christ.‘ It is a faith based website for those of you out there who want to indulge in all the joys of life without offending the big fella upstairs. There are only a handful of pages to the site, but who needs more when the existing ones have titles like “Anal Sex in Accordance with God’s Will,” “Bondage in Christ,” “BDSM in a Christian Marriage” and that great cornerstone of the Christian faith “Threesomes Within a Christian Marriage.” I guarantee you will lose yourself for hours here. It starts off seeming like a windup, but it soon becomes clear that this is indeed deadly serious. Be sure also to check out the readers Q&A section, where proper fire and brimstone Christians get to vent their spleens at the site’s creators.

Following in the arena of stealing the ideas of others, after Jonic’s post the other day about last.fm I thought I’d mosey on over there and set up a profile, something I’ve been meaning to do for months. So over I go and type in my usual username, formulaic666, only to find tat it had already been taken! I must admit I sat stunned for a while. Since I came up with my internet moniker, I’ve never had an instance of it being taken by another person on any other website. After a while of sitting dumbfounded I thought to try to log in with a random password I use, and hey presto, it turns out I must have set it up ages ago and forgotten to do anything with it. Oh well. So, now that it’s hooked into my media player to try and figure out what I like to listen to, I thought I’d give it a challenge and put my media player onto random. So now it’s being fed a mix of extreme metal, along with some Bill Hicks, Al Green, Eels, Journey, Sufjan Stevens and Aphex Twin.  Nice.  That’ll teach you to pigeonhole me!

Lookey lookey, I have the internet back!  Ah, the world of possibilities that is open to be now… the things I can see, all shiny and new!  For some reason though, everything looks different in internet land, hence the lack of a title for this tremendously joyous announcement,  I shall be back after work and we shall see what is what then!

Edit:  Finally managed to get a title on this post.  Having gotten the internet back, I uttely failed to resolve the issue.  Sorry.

Well, thanks to Jonic, who has done a sweltering job on redesigning this place for me.  What do we all think?  I think it’s lovely! Still some very big news to impart, but it has to be told to some more people in person before I go shouting it out to the world. But anyway, should have full net access this week at some point, so I look forward to that.