Month: July 2001

Looks like Saturn.org got the same crap “let’s trade links!” e-mail that I did. Ugh. It was from the webmaster at bransonshows.com (I won’t link to it, because that would defeat the point of my refusal.) I wrote the sender back and asked why in the world he thought my content would be interesting to wealthy senior citizens who enjoy RVing. He said, “Many of our visitors would like to read about others, so that is why I emailed you.” Apparently instead he should’ve responded, “I’m spamming every weblogger I can find in the hopes that they’ll mention me and it’ll drive up traffic at my crap site, so please help.” Whatever.

I’ve picked up Rodd’s Australian habit of calling English people “poms”. He’s always maintained that nobody knows why they use that word, but Nick always claims that it somehow stands for “Prisoner of His Majesty”. Fortunately, Snopes has an answer.

Huh. It turns out that iceberg photo I was raving about back when is actually fake. It’s a composite of four pictures that was created for those cheesy Successories posters.

Those wacky English. A Londoner recently got pissed off when he found a notice on the fence where he locks his bicycle each day that prohibited him doing that. So as revenge, now he locks other things to the fence. His website, which documents his activities, is called: What should I put on the Fence? Recent items have included a green refrigerator door, an ironing board, and a teapot. You can even suggest new things for him to decorate the fence with.

Sorry for the lack of bloggage yesterday. I was in a training session for half the day and then my computer decided to have a nervous breakdown after lunch. It wasn’t a pretty site. Anyway, Happy belated 4th of July to my American readers. My sister and I thought of having a mini-celebration here, but decided against it. “When in Rome…” and all that. I did miss it though. England’s big fireworks holiday (Guy Fawkes Day) isn’t until November, which isn’t exactly conducive to lying on the grass and looking up at the display. Anyway, I hope y’all had a good time.

So you’ve been deposed from office, extradited to The Hague in the Netherlands, and now you’re standing trial for atrocities your forces committed in Kosovo. What’s the icing on the cake? The airline loses your damn luggage.

Are you a Harry Potter fan? Remember that woman I blogged about who’s suing Rowling for copyright infringement? Someone has written an in-depth review of the book in question: “The Legend of Rah and the Muggles.” It looks pretty sucky, and not at all anything like Harry Potter.