AAHHHRRGGG!!!

Dammit Haggis, why do you put so many ....'s in your blog?!! It's infuriating to read! I wanted to write something like this in a comment but you don't have those so i'll just have to direct your attention here :). Practically every blog post of yours is full of ...'s! It kills the entire flow of a piece of writing dude. I hope you didn't do that in your english exam :). Practically all of your ...'s could be easily replaced with full stops or commas with little or no changing of words. It'd make it SOOO much easier to read :). You know, due to the lack of full stops, most of your blog posts are technically only one or two REALLY long sentances :). Phh, and Kiah thought my 5 line sentance was bad :P

Order is good...

I seem to have this annoying desire for things to go smoothly. It may not sound that annoying to most people, but see the thing is it means that it really bugs me when things don't go smoothly. Only certain things though... I dunno, possibly things where I feel I owe someone something. Now that I think about it I don't seem to care so much if I don't feel like it's messing with someone whom I owe something to.
Like today at work for example. I was discussing with the manager the possibilty of me not working late for a while coz my dad is going away for about 10 days and I won't be able to get a lift. He seemed ok with it at first, but when I detailed exactly how early I was saying I'd have to finish by and how often he basically said "thats no good" since he said they probably wouldn't have hired me on that availability. It's not that big a deal, it just means I'm going to have to ride to work occassionally for the next 10 days -I suppose its good exercise- but something about it keeps bugging me. Maybe it's because I feel like I owe the manager something for hiring me and don't want him to feel like he made a mistake by doing that. I don't like to punish good deeds. Whatever it is, I find it very annoying that it keeps bugging me. Stuff like that bugs me on occasion. Not very often, but just often enough so that I know I get bugged by that stuff. I would greatly appreciate it if I was not bugged by stuff like this, it's very distracting. Especially when I can't think of a very good reason for it. I know I'm just going to tell him tommorow that I have a bike and can ride to work and that he can consider my availabilty unchanged, and that that will be perfectly fine and dandy and I'll go on my merry way, yet I am still bugged. Grr. Go away bugged feeling.
Perhaps I am just feeling the power he has over whether I work there or not. As much as I dislike working a job is a good thing to have, and I doubt I'll find a casual unskilled job like this that i'll enjoy more. And since my contract only goes until february perhaps I am just bugged about making a bad impression and not getting re-hired. I know I shouldn't take it personally, since the chances are that I won't get rehired simply because they won't need many more permentant staff, if any more at all.
It still bugs me though.
Its the kind of bugging feeling that makes me want to grab a sword and a bow and arrow and head out into the wilderness, the bugging feeling that makes me feel like I should be doing something cooler than this and not worrying about insignificant things. I obviously need to discipline my spirit better.

I thought I'd add that there is something I find immensely satisfying about holding a sword. I don't know what it is, or why I feel like that, but I think it's part of the reason I want to learn kendo so bad.

Grammar

I was reading my little subtitle thing at the top of my blog, and something about the grammar seems wrong. I think it's in the "My place to ramble where I please..." Doesn't quite make sense. It's not that bad, but it's still a little weird. What to change it to though? Hmm... How, what and when, don't fit... I think it needs more drastic restructuring. "As much as" would be a reasonable replacement, but I don't like it. Ok, screw it, I'll think of something later.

No Major?

And also Merry Christmas to all! I'm actually posting to comment on my music, but I'll take a moment to say I got a new mobile phone, so you all gotta give me your numbers :).

Anyway, I was just looking through my playlist and noticed that nearly every single piece of music is in a minor key. The only exception is my Adventures of Jerrith theme music, Seeking Adventure, which is in G major. Strange that I hardly ever write anything in a major key. I wonder what that says. When writing music a reasonable amount is intellectual knowledge, but a lot also flows freely from the subconcious mind. I like to let it flow from my subconcious as much as possible. So I wonder what that means if my subconcious always wants to write in minor keys. Minor keys are pretty damn cool though, so it's produced some reasonable music for me.
Ahh well, I believe number 7 in my adventures of jerrith series is going to have at least one section in a major key. Major keys are pretty cool too sometimes, so maybe i'll try to use them more.

Oh, btw my mobile no. is 0422 545 361 for anyone who need it.

So, another Christmas eh?

Well, I did all my Christmas shopping today, I spent just over 10 bucks and got gifts for 6 people :). I am the worlds best shopper :). Of course I had some help from my $70 worth of Robinsons book vouchers that the school gave me. Those were very handy. I was walking around Frankston with Kiah, since no-one else she was going to meet ended up coming. After I was done we were going to go to Steves, but we got into an argument and she ended up going home. I didn't try and stop her. I still went to Steves though and we played Worms 3D for a little while with his brother before he went off to Amy's for a Christmas Eve dinner.

So, back at home I finished composing No. 6 of my Adventures of Jerrith Album. It's called "A Quest Begins". Its a rather haunting tune actually, it seems that it's a rather sombre quest their heading out on. I guess thats ok tho, since the heroes are meant to be leaving their home city, which has just been burnt practically to the ground by Jerrith's summoned dragon. They're heading out to seek aid in killing the beasts that have been unleashed.
Kiah rang later and told me she'd managed to sneakily get a job at Jade Garden at the hub, since her sister left and she snuck in only a little while after it was done. Worked like a charm apparently. I bet Steve will be slightly annoyed :).
I also used an EFTPOS machine for the first time today - thankfully it worked. I woulda been hungry if it hadn't.

Rampage of Two Beasts

I finally got around to finishing the 5th installment of my Adventures of Jerrith album, Rampage of Two Beasts as it is now called. Its so cool, its very huge and epic. only 2.37 long, but it gets across a lot of epicness in that time. Epic rampaging that is. It gets very thunderous near the end. I must play it for some of you sometime.

Busy day...

I've been running all over the place today, quite literally :). I got up at 11.30 or so, had food and such. It really sucked actually coz I wanted some cereal, but every box I tried in my cupboard was empty. Come to think of it I think I didn't bother eating anything at that point after that, though it didn't matter so much since I ate a little over an hour later anyway. I ended up talking to Steve and agreeing to go to Frankston with him. That was about 1.00 I think. So I hurridly made some lunch and stuffed it down (quite possibly in record time btw) then ran out the door and bolted for the bus. Unfortunately I didn't make it, I was just in time to see it drive off from a distance. I wasn't about to just go home though so I decided to jog to frankston. Damn is that a long way. I at least could get a drink when I went past Ballam Park. I pushed myself reasonably hard, especially for the first hour or so, so I made good time. It was about an hour and a half in total I think, from my doorstep to the foodcourt in Frankston. Not half bad I thought.
So, wandering about frankston in search of Steve I went, checking all the usual places people might be; What's New, the food courts, Electronics Boutique, Target, that stupid lolly shop Amy goes to all the time. I was about to go check out JD's when I spotted Kiah, Amy and Steve on one of the escalators below me. I didn't call out coz I wanted to sneak up on them, but that didn't work so well since there were an awful lot of people in my way as I tried to follow them. I was lucky I managed to find them again really. They were in EB, Steve was checking out Worms 3D. He ended up buying it too. I must say it looks pretty classy, I would most like to play it. The others had a go already but I had to work so I wasn't there. Maybe tommorow. Which is really today I guess, but I'm going to go on talking as If yesterday were still today.
So, I went home and they went to Steves house to play worms. I ate dinner and got my stuff together for work and all that crap. I was quite lucky/unlucky really. I again had to run out the door in order to make the bus (although in hindsight I probably would have made it simply by walking) and I also got rather soaked by the pouring rain. The coat I had grabbed as I ran out the door had no hood, so while my shirt stayed dry my hair and pants got pretty wet. I managed to get myself looking respectable again before I got to work though, so that was good.
Work hurt my feet a bit, they had received fair punishment already and theres nowhere to sit down at Village, not for me anyway.
After work I went to Amy's, since I assumed the others would be there, but it was just her and Steve. So we just hung out and watched Shrek, then I went home. Actually, on the way my dad stopped off at the supermarket. It was rather amusing; since it was closing time there were a few things that were reduced to clear, like barbeque chickens and bread and pizza bases. My dad went around looking for em all. And we also replaced all those cereal boxes that suddenly disappered. The pizza bases were a good find, I ended up making one into a whole pizza and eating 3/4 of it for my second dinner.
Now i'm pretty damn tired after that bugger of a day, so I'm going to bed. Might be another late night tommorow, with Amandas party and all. Ahh life is crazy. I like it.

Dang boring Frankston

Theres not enough stuff to do at midnight in Frankston. Ended up driving around with Scott last night and Jason tonight, both times ending up near the beach for a while. Last night Scott, Kiah and I found ourselves at Ballam Park Primary for a little while, Scott and I looking around at everything to see what had changed since we'd gone there. Quite a few changes since I went there, most of which I knew already just from walking past but there were a couple of changes I didn't know about, such as the greenhouse being slashed to all hell.
Tonight Jason, Kiah, Stephen and I were driving around after the Bluenote concert. We hung out at the petrol station that has subway along cranbourne road near frankston for a while, probably annoying the guys working there, but meh. We found ourselves at the beach front later, till we eventually got bored and just went home. Wasn't even midnight yet. We wanted to stay out and do something but theres really very little to do. Perhaps there will be more to do when I'm eighteen and can legally go into pubs and casinos and such, but for now theres nothing to do at night. It sucks.

Go the cat!

Heh, that cat that owes me a life debt came wandering about a minute ago. I havn't seen it for a while, but it seems to remember that it owes me a life debt. It wanted to come inside but I decided that the dog might get a bit weird if she could smell cat in the house. I don't think my dog likes that cat, she barks at it out the window a lot. Ahh well.

Got Jason/my sisters concert tonight, that should be pretty good. I don't remember what anyone is playing, tho i think Jason put a complete list of his pieces on his blog. Oh well. I just gotta make sure I get back here before 5.30 or so so I can make it there. I'm heading out to the movies you see, to test out the whole free movies thing I get for working for em. Hmm, looking at previous posts I don't think I've mentioned it before. So i'll do it now: I'm working for Village Cinemas now, done two shifts already too. Should have earned about $90 or so, tho I get paid fortnightly so I dunno when I'll actually get any of it. I think I shall enjoy this working business more once I have my hard-earned cash in hand. Works kinda boring sometimes, but I think it will get better as I get to know the people who work there, since they stand around chatting a lot when we don't have much to do, or even while they're doing other things. Since I don't know em very well and don't talk to them that much, so thats when i get bored. I'm sociable enough tho so I'll get to know em sooner or later. Anyway, I'm headed off to see Scary Movie 3 soon since I get free movies and half-price combos. Kiah's coming too since I actually get two free tickets at will. Not a bad job perk I must say. I started writing a little bit of music for some medieval fantasy RPG project that Jason's gotten himself involved in. I'll sent it too him sometime. He seems to get himself involved in some strange projects sometimes. This one could be interesting though, at least it gives me a reason to write music besides entertainment.

XCVI . LXXXV

Well well, so I'm not going to Alaska. Ahh well, guess I'll just have to figure out modern society then.
96.85, woohoo! That ought to do the trick as far as getting me into aerospace engineering goes. I'm curious as to what other people in our school got now, since the highest enter at our school last year was 94 or something. There are a couple of people who may possibly have beaten me, but theres a distinct possiblity that I beat everyone at our school since the competition is rather limited. Apparently only a handful of people get over 90 each year. Awards night is going to be interesting indeed. Well, aside from the mind-numbing boredem...

Too bad you only live once

You know, it really sucks that we only get to live once. I told Jason that if I got less than 50, or 70 or something for my enter then I was going to Alaska to become a hunter. He said he'd come with me whatever he got. Good stuff there J. Thing is, I'm only partially joking, I'm mostly serious. I think it would be great to be a hunter in Alaska. Problem is it would make it a lot harder to do other things. See, life is far too limiting. Mostly because of time I believe. To get really good at anything takes a lot of time, which some people seem to translate into dedication and hard work, but the truth is it really only takes time to become good at anything, even the best in the world. Not just a length of time however, it takes regular time, time put in reasonably frequently, the more frequently the better. Of course you can't just screw around in this time, but the fact is if you put in time regularly to do anything you'll get good at it.
My problem is not that I can't be good at stuff, in fact I am rather of the impression that I could be the best in the world at anything so long as I am willing to put in the time to get good at it. My problem is that there are lots of things I want to do and only so many hours in a day. See, no matter how long I live it seems impossible to master everything, since you can't possibly keep up practice at everything at once. Damn eh? So it seems like I just need to live a few times over. Although I can't be stuffed doing everything up till now again, so it would be good If I could just start from whatever point I liked rather than having to go back to being an infant again. Need to keep all the memories too of course. Ok, that's all for now.

Well well, results tomorrow...

So, the day of reckoning has arrived at last, yet I am strangely calm. Not because I feel certain i'll get what I want, not by any means. I believe it is because I feel that it doesn't matter. Whatever my career may be, I will always have my music and my martial arts. No score can take them from me, so I am not so worried about what the score may be. I think proof of this is my desire to get into a university that has a kendo club, even if it has an inferior course. I know I shouldn't do that, so that's why I'm going for aerospace engineering at Monash (which conviniently has a kendo club). Anyway, now that the day is upon us I'm curious as to how I did, so perhaps i'll look it up on the net after all rather than waiting for the letter like I was going to.

Go SOFD!

Hah, stupid dog. She's lost something or other under one of our chairs and is desperately trying to get it back. It's just so damn funny to watch :). Perhaps it's cruel to laugh, but you watch her lying on her side, sticking her paws under the chair, stuffing her snout under the chair as far as she can while making pathetic little howling noises as she trys to get back whatever it is. A bottlecap i think. Ok, thats enough, I better go save her...
...heh, so amusing.

Anyhow, today has been interesting. I managed to finish off one of the walking animations for SOFD and start on another one. I also talked to Kiah for a little bit when she rang, though not for that long I suppose. Eventually it came time to go to karate, so I caught a bus in. Oh, before that I got a call from the manager of village cinemas asking me to come in for an interview tommorow at 9.45 am. A bit earlier than i would have liked, but I figure it will make me look better If I can get there at that time without issues. Hopefully that goes better than the one I did at KFC. KFC sucks anyway.
Back to Karate, and our little tournament we had tonight. Went for a fair while and I ended up judging, which was quite interesting seeing as how i've never judged with the flag system before. Some of those calls were quite tricky to make. Sensei Cory also put me in the junior division, along with Stephen and Brendan, for some reason. To make up numbers I guess. Anyway, I came first in that event, but I didn't place in the seniors because Simon beat me in the first round. Ahh well, at least Sensei thought my kata was better. Our judging for the senior event was a little wonky since we had to switch around a bit and judge each other, seeing as how us judges had to compete as well :). Craziness. My kata seemed reasonably good too, although a couple of wobbles in there when my balance was a little off. I'll get rid of stuff like that eventually and have perfect balance all the time. Or at least nearly all of the time. After the tournament I sat around outside talking to Stephen, Brendan and Eveone (I think. Might be evette, Evonna?), and muttered about being hungry. As usual, I was the last to leave, once my dad was done talking to Sensei and his wife.

Oh yeah, Mark told me that you could get the entire series of Neon Genesis Evangelion on dvd on eBay for $70, so once I get a job thats something for me to save for. That and an awesome mountain bike for kickarse mountain biking action. The dvd's will be cheaper though.

And also, I got a letter from the school saying I have to go to awards night because I've been nominated for some thing called a "citizenship award". I have no idea why I got nominated for it, I do nothing with the school, they suck arse. Although maybe it's for playin in lots of concerts and stuff with the orchestra. Although there are people who do that more than me... It must simply be because I am awesome. I see no other explanation. I just struck awe into the teachers with my overpowering presence and they feel the need to appease me with some feeble offering. Lol, maybe i'll just have to wait to find out what it's actually for.

Doo de do do doo

Just passing the time while my popcorn does it's thing in the microwave. Busy day today, went to school to practice for the awards night, went to amy's then back to my place before heading out to fountain gate to do an assessment thing for village. Hopefully i passed their little assessment and they ask me to come do an interview. Ooo, popcorn's ready...

...mmm, popcorn. Anyhow, I did a bit of riding about today. I like riding about, it gets you places reasonably quickly but you still get exercise out of it. I like exercise these days, it feels good. Like i am contributing towards my efforts to temper my body and spirit into a fine steel blade.
The assessment thing was alright, slightly entertaining to do even. Quite a few other people there though so I hope I get the job.

I was also pondering how crap the presentation of our VCE certificates is going to be. They make such a big thing of it but when it comes to giving us our certificates they do a half-asses job of it, shoving us in the time before the actual awards night starts. It would have been crap enuf as part of the awards night, we should get a whole massive evening to ourselves with classiness and a ceremony and stuff, but instead we're crammed into about an hour in our shitty VCE foyer. Bah, damn our school sucks. I'll be glad to be free of that dump finally. It's partially our new principals fault I think. He sucks at presentations and stuff, Spencer was much better with that stuff. Ahh well.

kewl little comment thingy's

Ok, now you can comment on stuff I say if you like, just click the little button down the bottom of the post.

[insert title here]

I couldn't think of a good title so I left it as my default. This post is more a ramble about many things than anything in particular. Met Kiah today and went into frankston for a while before headin back to my place. Actually, that was really rather late so I went to karate pretty soon after getting home. Karate was good too, did a good bit of kumite today. I accidentally punched a white belt a bit too hard in the face and made his lip bleed, but he was ok and took it with dignity. He's only little but he fights rather well for a white belt. Hopefully he will come to understand that I do him a favour by punching him in the face fairly quickly. My leg seems to be mostly better now, which is good since it means I can kick people in the head again, which I did to Simon, again a little harder than I meant to. My fighting was good today but perhaps my control could still be better. His nose bled, but I don't think that was from the kick, since I kicked him in the side of the head. He got me in the face pretty good a couple of times, but I think he is able to do it less often these days. Can only be a good sign. The Kata was interesting too, I wasn't completely sure about doing seipai, but I figured it would be good practice anyway. I felt it could have been much better but it must of looked pretty reasonable since the only constructive critism i recieved was that the first move was a bit shaky and needed to have more internal strength in it than muscular strength, and that the couple of moves after that I had my energy too high and didn't move into those stances as well as the rest of the kata.

After Karate I was greeted by Kiah, Jason and Steve, who me and Stephen decided to go off with. Ended up back at my house discussing details of our version of Medieval Warrior that we intend to create. I guess I should get moving on some graphics, since doing them will probably get the others moving on bits and pieces also. Plus a few working graphics could be very useful for working out the initial game engine code, 'specially the maps and warrior movement.

Stupid birds...

I went into KFC Cranbourne today to do an aptitude test thingy. It was kind of funny, their restaraunt is being renovated so you can't actually go inside, so I had to walk up to the drive-thru window. The test itself was more a personality assessment plus a section that made sure you could count, however I kept being delayed by a stupid little miner bird that kept swooping at me every 2 seconds. It was really starting to piss me off, but I said on the test that I rarely get angry :). Ahh well.

Go Medieval Warriors!

This post is pretty much just to say that Medieval Warriors is an awesome game and all should bask in it's glory! The strategy! The carnage! The thrill of vanquishing! What more could a game need?

Thank you various people for your kind words about my blog, I shall try to keep this place worthy of praise.
I finally finished the "original" piano version of Shadow's of Glory, having finished it's remix a while ago :). Oh well. I thought I'd better do it since I'm supposed to be playing it for some people at my piano teacher's little end of year concert. I doubt the parents and little kids there will connect with it in a profound way, but maybe they'll think it's pretty cool :). I like this Shadow's of Glory thing, it's one of my favourite pieces of music I've written so far. Maybe because I've been working on it for quite a while now rather erratically, only adding extra bits and changes when I found them very worthy of being added, rather than settling for stuff that fits but could be better like I sometimes do. I wrote the final section in less than a day in the end, but it seemed rather worthy of being added and completed the piece rather nicely. Part of it kind of reminds me of the Lord of the Rings music, just a couple of the chords I used, but I doubt it's quite enough to warrent plagerism accusations and beng similar to the Lord of the Rings music isn't a bad thing, since that music is pretty cool.

On another note I seem to have managed to impress some people enough to warrent them getting me to do aptitude tests. Not quite a job yet, but at least it's a start. I'm heading up to KFC in cranny for their little test tommorow and up to friggen Fountain Gate for the Village Cinema's one next Wednesday. I'd really rather work at the cinemas than KFC, I'd like to avoid cooking and fast food wherever possible, but I figure I better go in case I don't get a job at Village. Ahh well, I hope one of em offers me a job at least, then my little search can be over already and I can stop wasting time looking for a job.

Profile Page...

Ok this post should appear somewhere long ago in the archives of the blog, I plan to use it to make a sort of profile page, if you will.

Modifications...

OK, thanks to kaz's prodding I've added a little script thingy that lets people link to specific posts i've made. If you highlight the space just below the date, or in the space just before the body of a post starts, then you shall find the link appropriate to that post. Something like that anyway. I havn't really played with it yet.

Also, I decided to add a heading thing for each post, just so it can be seen at a glance what post is about what. Thats all for now.

New addition: See that apple up in the corner? It'll smash if you click on it :).

Hey, Warrior's Night! I've been looking for some kind of graphic's package that i can use to jazz up this place, but instead I found some of my old flash stuff, adventures of Jerrith included. I may just have do some more of that. Anyway, the main point of this post is to put up a bunch of my flash-drawn pics:


I wonder if blog's can handle embedded flash...

Since I seem to still be up, and have nothing better to do, I'm going to have a rave about kendo and swordsmanship.

Now kendo is perhaps not quite as practically valuable as unarmed martial arts are, for a number of reasons. The first and most obvious is that in today's society it is highly unlikely that we will happen to have a sword tucked into our obi should we find ourselves in mortal danger. It is no longer the symbol of authority that it was in medieval Japan. The second is less obvious, but very important for a practitioner of kendo to understand. You see, when the old samurai learned swordsmanship, they learned it in order to kill. Over time, however, swordsmanship grew to be much more than simply another way to kill people. It became a way of training the mind, body and spirit to work in harmony, a way of strengthing the spirit and improving the self.
Kendo is no longer the art for killing that swordsmanship one was, indeed there is no way it could be considering the training implements. Warriors used to die in training all the time, but as the years went by this became less and less acceptable. Instead of a hard wooden sword, kendoka use a bamboo stick called a shinai. This weapon, although it can give you a nasty welt, is much less capable of dealing a fatal blow than the bokken of old were. It is also very little like a real sword. The advantage it gives is that kendoka can engage in a form of combat without risk of serious injury or death. The intensity of combat is a vital component of training, absolutely vital. There is a quote from the matrix that applies very well here: "You do not truly know someone until you fight them". This statement is very true. During combat all of a persons weaknesses and inhibitions are laid out for all to see. Fear, doubt, self-conciousness, egotism, anger, all these are as plain as day to see in a person you fight. It also works in reverse though. Combat is the time when you can find the most out about yourself. All those things I mentioned are as plain to you as they are to whoever you are fighting. If you are looking of course. Most people would just ignore such things I imagine, until it is pointed out to them that they are there.
But I seem to have diverged from my orginal ravings. Basically I'm just looking forward to training in Kendo next year. I intend to train one way or another, no matter how much driving it takes. Since I can't wander the countryside learning swordsmanship as I could have done in medieval japan I shall have to settle for training in Kendo and other sword-arts in my spare time. Maybe one of these years I'll be able to take a couple off to go wandering around japan learning swordsmanship from the masters. Here's to hoping.

Hmm, so this is how these blog things work...

Anyhow, I myself was persuaded to make a blog by the various e-mails floating around wherin friendship seems to be in debate. Now, perhaps I'm not the best person to talk about this since I don't really get to know many people very well, for whatever reason, but I'm going to anyway.

Firsty, chill. It's only been a couple of weeks since school finished and suddenly it's far less convinient for some of us to see each other. It has barely been longer than our regular two weeks of holiday and suddenly people are feeling shattered that they havn't seen some people for a while.
Actually, I've changed my mind, this isn't worth my time writing about. I'll just say that if people are feeling bad because other people havn't invited them anywhere for a little while, then don't. There's no reason to feel bad, especially no reason to feel worthless. Other people shouldn't be able to make you feel worthless anyway, you should know what you're worth without anybody being able to tell you otherwise. If you must have other people's attention all the time to feel good about yourself then it is really a very vain and empty feeling, not at all the sense of inner worth and respect we should all have of ourselves. If you find this applies to you, go out and prove to yourself that your worth something, don't go around relying on other people to prove it to you.
Actually, I better stop before I offend someone. But if you do find this offending, then you should know that you fit squarely into the group of people who rely on others to measure their self-worth. Don't be in that group, that's the group of people who will never truly be happy in life.

Ok, I know that we all measure ourselves against others all the time, I mean that's what our entire VCE was about. That's not what I'm talking about though. I'm talking about knowing your value as a human being. Just thought I'd make that clear.

Also *yoink*, thank you for the blog link's Jason, yes I did lift them straight from the source code of your blog :)

Oh yeah, the simpsons today rocked. It must be my favourite episode, with Hank Scorpio and his cool town, and his doomsday device :). "Homer, if you could kill someone on your way out it would help me a lot". Damn that was classy.