“Is that your phone? No? Well it isn’t mine. Who the heck…? Oh, sod it, it’s a bird!”

With everything, there are trade-offs. Sure, they’re putting open-air urinals in Trafalgar Square. But they’re also licensing classical musicians as buskers to play in Tube Stations. Maybe civilisation isn’t quite in the toilet just yet.

Eeb’s definitely got me excited to see “Moulin Rouge”. (Well, I was already pretty excited, given that Ewan McGregor plays a lovestruck poet who sings Madonna songs, but at least now I can back up my enthusiasm with a critical review.) He also liked “A Knight’s Tale”, which every other critic has been crapping on left and right. If Eeb says it’s okay, I’ll give it a look.

Gael found a great link today: the Douglas Coupland Dictionary. I’ve read all of his books, and I have to say Microserfs is the best. Girlfriend in a Coma is interesting too, if only for the constant references to nearly every song the Smiths ever wrote. (Oddly, none of the reviewers on Amazon seemed to catch this.)

Bloody Blogger is down again. Now I’m stuck between coding my new weblogging software this weekend OR enjoying this. I guess I could always lug the iMac down to the backyard… 🙂

Open-air urinals in Trafalgar Square. I repeat, OPEN-AIR URINALS IN TRAFALGAR BLOODY SQUARE. Animals in this city, I tell you. Animals.

I gotta say, the new Webmonkey design is the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen. Thank God it doesn’t extend any further than the front page, or I’d have to stop using it. *shudder*

Why is everyone suddenly interested in hacking my boxen? These stories sound like the deluded ravings of the Windoze Borg, trying to instill fear and paranoia in the ranks of happy Mac users.

My friend Pat McDonald just IMed me to let me know that he’s finished his last final and his college career is finally over. An excerpt from our hilarious conversation:

PatMcd01: done with college
KrisinLondon: SWEET!
PatMcd01: i’m as smart as i’ll ever be right now
KrisinLondon: hahahahaha… That’s an interesting way to look at it.
PatMcd01: i’ll be getting dumber very soon

Given that George W. Bush will be presenting his commencement address next weekend, I told him I’d have to agree. To which he responded:

PatMcd01: haha… i should ask gw about my job strategery

Indeed.

Wow! “The Real World” is finally going to shoot a season in Chicago. They wanted to do it before but claimed that the weather was too crappy. Evidently they’ve now realized that Chicago has summer too.