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Hooray! The Harry Potter movie will have its gala premiere in London on November 4. Now I just have to take the day off and stake out the theater all day. I’ll get to meet everybody!

You can call me Palmer. Lorraine Palmer. People are still naming kids “Lorraine” these days? I thought that went out in the fifties. Of course, I might just be thinking of this movie though. (Link courtesy of Max.)

John doesn’t think it’s such a big deal that Internet Explorer now redirects to MSN Search rather than giving the user a 404 error page. I think I’m going to have to disagree. If they’re only doing it on default server error pages, fine. I probably personally wouldn’t like that (since I’m not an idiot newbie and I usually just go back to the home page and look from there), but as long as they allow you to change that setting, fine with me. However, if they’re actually overriding custom 404 error pages that people have created, then I do have a big problem with that. (That article doesn’t indicate.) A lot of people – myself included – have custom pages that can redirect users to the correct page, give them possible links to the information they wanted, or record the broken link for fixing in the future. If Micro$oft is going to break that functionality, I’m going to be very pissed indeed.

The Bangles were good. Not the greatest show in rock and roll history, but as Snookums put it, “I never thought I’d see the Bangles perform live, so it was a bit of a novelty.” They did all of their songs that people remember, as well as some new ones from their forthcoming album. And I have to say, they’re all looking damn foxy now. They look so much better than they did in the 80’s. Oh, and who knew that Susanna Hoffs was, like, three feet tall? Seriously, that girl is tiny. Snookums and I were both in agreement that she’s no longer the hottest Bangle though. Vicki – the second one from the left – takes that honor big time (even if she does hold her guitar like a handbag). I also noticed that they made quite an effort to spread the singing duties around. One girl would sing lead, and then on the next song another one would, and around and around. I had to wonder if that was built into their reunion contract. It’s like, the other three are making damn sure that Hoffs isn’t the “star” anymore. Which is a shame, because her songs were the biggest hits. The others are all very talented, but she’s the only one with a really distinctive voice. They closed with an acoustic version of “Walk Like an Egyptian” that segued into “Mrs. Robinson” in the middle. Then for their first encore they played “Eternal Flame”, during which everybody in the audience just slow-danced with their sweeties. (I have to give a huge thank you to the Snook for indulging me in my girlyness.) I wasn’t that impressed with their other encore songs, which I didn’t recognize. But overall it was a good time, and they really seemed to be enjoying themselves.

Slide your feet up the street, bend your back, shift your arm then you pull it back. Life is hard you know (oh whey oh) so strike a pose on a Cadillac…”

Guess who I’m off to see tonight? That’s right, the Bangles! Reunited for the first UK tour in ten years. It’s all about the 80’s nostalgia. (As a sidenote, you would not believe how difficult it is to find accurate lyrics for that song. Everybody sings it differently.)

A random survey of 1000 adults in Britain found that more than half failed a test that is given to 11-year-olds in this country. I tried it and got 8 out of 10 (enough for “top marks”). How well do you do?

The Onion A.V. Club is running a terrific interview with Joss Whedon, the creator of “Buffy.” He’s apparently worked on a lot of stuff I didn’t even know about. (“Speed”??)

Apparently it would take about ten cases of Mountain Dew to kill me. I think this calculator is wrong though. As proof, I offer the fact that Sallie Scherer is still walking and talking in this world. This tiny girl used to sit in our study lounge at college and just knock back Dew like nobody’s business. If this calculator were accurate, she would’ve keeled over dead during Exam Week 1998.

Nicci has yet another great new design and a really sweet story about how she and her husband got together. Happy anniversary, girl!

The Leaky Cauldron has revealed some amazing Harry Potter photos from the upcoming Vanity Fair issue. They look great!