4/5/03 - Months after everyone else I put my  details into my headers.

4/5/03 - Another one of those movie lists that make me depressed,especially the 20 Movies You'd Better Have Seen Already.

4/5/03 - Worth a look every day, the Football365 Mediawatch.

4/5/03 - From an excellent, wide-ranging interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury:

"Q: The English are notoriously, at least in modern times, embarrassed by religion. Is it part of your task to stop them blushing when God comes up?

A: It would be wonderful if that happened. It is always such a relief to be in company where it doesn't sound stupid to mention God. It is one of the things you discover if you travel Africa.

I was told before I went to Uganda last year that you must be prepared to greet everybody with the words Praise God, you must expect to be asked about your spiritual experience and pray before every journey and every meal, and praying before every journey in Uganda is a very good idea."

4/5/03 - I wish I had a digital camera.  Sign in local window "Win Tickets to the Chatsworth Hores Trails".

4/5/03 - Penguin book cover mugs; pricey but nice:

4/5/03 - Cool.  CD business cards:

4/5/03 - How To Record Vinyl Records (singles and LPs) to MP3 files and Audio CD.  That says it all.

4/5/03 - Very handy, Common Errors in English.  I'd always wondered what the supposed difference in farther/further was:

"Some authorities (like the Associated Press) insist on "farther" to refer to physical distance and on "further" to refer to an extent of time or degree, but others treat the two words as interchangeable except for insisting on "further" for "in addition," and "moreover." You'll always be safe in making the distinction; some people get really testy about this."

4/5/03 - Ooh, must look out for these results:

"Thousands of members of the Women's Institute are helping a tea firm settle the argument of how to make the perfect cuppa. They're hoping to help discover if the best cup of tea is made with milk added first, or with it poured in afterwards."

"Few British habits are as deep-rooted and as resistant to change as the order of pouring milk and tea into a teacup. Europeans who take their tea without milk cannot comprehend the vehemence with which Britons argue their case.

Britons do at least agree on why milk was originally added first. The fine Chinese porcelain bowls in which tea was served in the seventeenth century seemed so delicate that tea-drinkers feared hot tea would crack them. By adding milk first, they cooled the tea as it entered the cup and reduced the likelihood of damage. But that was several hundred years ago. Which order of pouring - milk first or last - is still appropriate for life in the twenty-first century?

There is an argument that revolves around the extent to which hot tea scalds the milk. Although neither side can claim their method of pouring causes the least amount of scalding, nor can they agree on whether the actual scalding of milk is good or bad for the flavour of the tea.

Both methods are reputed to provide greater control over the proportions of milk and tea. In A Nice Cup of Tea (London Evening Standard, 1946), George Orwell claimed that "...by putting the tea in first and then stirring as one pours, one can exactly regulate the amount of milk..."

In the end it all boils down to tradition and personal habit. First or last with the milk, your favourite style of tea always tastes good."

There's a big bottom gene!  Giving us these big-bottomed sheep:

And from Casanova's memoirs:

"I was exact to time, as may be imagined, and I found Leah in riding costume.  What proportions!  What a Venus Callipyge!  I was captivated."

Perhaps fortunately bootysnaps.com is no more.

4/5/03 - Pssst, wanna buy some bin bags?

"FIRST they copied £10 notes, then tapes, videos, Louis Vuitton bags, Levi jeans and Nike trainers. Now the counterfeiters have a new line: bin bags."

4/5/03 - It's the parental warning for High Crimes but it could apply to plenty of other movies:

""High Crimes" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned) for profanity, violence, implied sexuality and the brutal dismemberment of narrative logic."

"Profiling four firms at the forefront of this scientific and business revolution—including the BiosGroup, led by complexity theory pioneer Stuart Kauffman, and OpenEye Scientific Software, founded by Anthony Nicholls, the Steve Jobs of the Info Mesa—Regis offers behind-the-scenes experiences of the brilliant, often eccentric leaders in this heated competition for scientific innovation and commercial success." [My italics]

4/5/03 - Free SMS services available in the UK.  (I use Lycos).

4/5/03 - The reason why Hotmail gets so much spam:

"The voluminous MSN/Hotmail spam problem has been a mystery. New research from the Spamhaus Project suggests an answer may have been found. They have discovered that MSN/Hotmail seems to allow spammers to run long-lived dictionary attacks, in one case extending over five months in duration."

"With towering intellects and her penchant for Armani miniskirts and bright lipstick, they added a touch of glamour to the sedate worlds of pharmacology and chemistry."

3/5/03 - Stolen in whole from No Rock and Roll Fun:

"Bryan Adams was, apparently, shot at in London's busy Old Street while he rode a motorbike. He doesn't think he was being targetted specifically, though, because he had a helmet on and as such wouldn't have been identifiable. Plus, they only used an air rifle. And only shot him once. And didn't haul him from his bike screaming "Everything I Bloody Do..." as they beat him about the head with the butt of the gun."