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As expected, Australia pounded the Poms again in yesterday’s one-day cricket match. For those of you interested in this sport (which I am rapidly becoming obsessed with), check out How to Explain the Rules of Cricket. It uses a pie-eating analogy. (Yes, it’s a joke. But it actually still kinda works. I think my baseball-analogy would work better for Americans, though, if I ever get around to writing it.)

Since I’ve had a couple requests for it, here’s my Amazon Wish List yet again. I’ve added a whole bunch of stuff. Sadly, I did not add a TiVo or a Segway.

Bow down before the Queen of Putrescence! I just cleaned out the “worm buckets”, which are two plastic buckets we keep under the sink for vegetable scraps. The theory is, once one is full, you start filling the second. By the time the second is full, the first has “broken down” (i.e. rotted) a little bit and you dump it on the worms. Then you start filling that bucket all over again. Unfortunately in reality I tend to forget about the buckets for weeks and weeks. Finally today I broke down and opened them up. It was – hands down – the nastiest sight I’ve ever seen in my life. One wasn’t too bad, and I managed to hold my breath long enough to dump it in the worm farm. The other though… *shudder* Something we put in there bred slugs. That’s all I’m going to say on the subject. Never ask me about it again. I took care of it. Now I’m going to go take forty-seven showers.

Adriaan of chaotic intransient prose bursts (otherwise known as the guy who wrote Kung-Tunes) e-mailed me yesterday to ask about my Google referral page. I haven’t formally released the code yet, but he was interested so I sent him what I had. Only a day later, he’s managed to combine it with the LittleGreenFootballs script (code here) and he’s got it running at his site. My version uses a database, but his just uses text files. He even includes Yahoo search requests as well as Google. Pretty neat!

TiVo announced that they’ll be adding new capabilities to the set-top box. They did not, however, announce any plans to sell them where I can friggin’ purchase one. 🙁

Those of you already upset over my newfound Martha Stewart-ness will be horrified to learn that I took another step in that direction today: I knitted on public transport. That’s right, I sat down on the train and whipped out my needles and knitted all the way to Bankstown. I am not ashamed of my craftiness. 🙂

Have Faith in Leather: Leather Pants as a Signifier of Evil on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. That is so the type of paper I would’ve written in college. I’d also like to note that I have made a pledge to buy myself a pair of leather pants when I achieve my weight loss goal. And yes, I will be a bad ass in them. (Link courtesy of Nicci.)

Star Wars Christmas Cards. Those are so sweet! I love Yoda as Santa.

You Mac users might be interested in knowing that Kung-Tunes has had some major updates. This is a little application that grabs song information from iTunes and uploads it to your website. It now handles (up to 50!) recent tracks and has loads of new options. If you scroll down the page, you can see where I’ve used it on the right under “listening”. I definitely recommend it.