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Much as News International cling to the moral high ground they've fought so hard for over the decades, it's still covered in their own shite.

I assume now the Sunday Times will stick a problem page and a couple of cartoons in and take up most of the slack? Maybe some cleavage too.

Where the hell will I find out now who footballers have been sending pictures of themselves in y-fronts to?

The BBC's use of the 606 motif for the variety of sport-related radio phone-ins it has on 5Live is almost as tired as the opinions of the people that phone the shows.

Another discovery with Chrome - it really doesn't appear to be much good at running Flash applications.

In summary at the moment, it generally seems better at memory management than Firefox, and it appears more stable. It loses on the lack of quality/scope in its add-ons. I'll ahve to stick with it for the moment, but I might split time between them.

Not off to hippy party tonight, it will be very wet, and I've heard nothing about whether a fire has been organised. Time for the pub then. Interesting and/or pretty people should also come along.

Edinburgh Central voted yes to AV. I knew there were a few of us sensible people round this town.

I'm still on balance a royalist. In large part because republicanism entails a load more politicians - they'd cost how much more than a monarch?

The old adage about anyone wanting power being immediately banned from having it is appropriate here; royalty serves this purpose very well.


Anyway, to Beltane. See you non-hippies some time tomorrow.

Quite amused at people apparently paying £200 too much per year on mobiles. At a pretty good estimate, I don't think I've spent more than £500 in my whole life on three phones and top-ups, and one of those phones broke immediately. Am I tight, or do I just realise that I don't need to be able to look things up online at any time?

Can't believe Bagpuss is causing so much trouble in Cote D'Ivoire at the moment.

So, all of a sudden, because a nuclear power station, regulated by obsolete technology and built in a highly seismically-active area, was hit by an extremely rare event and is causing problems, nuclear power is a big scary thing again. Countries worldwide are reviewing their own plants, some countries are even withdrawing them.

What exactly has changed? Did they suddenly decide to read previously-ignored documents saying that their own plants were dangerous? Is this event being used as an excuse for a latent dislike of nuclear power to be acted upon? Are politicians acting on public ignorance for short-term gains in popularity?

All in all, the usual conclusion: meh.

Good on Steven Davies (pro cricketer) for coming out.

Disappointing however that I've not heard anyone talking about him batting for the other side.