>Musings and Mutterings

Well - the QCCC managed to pick up a hard-fought win on the weekend - defeating the former competition leaders to take their place on top of the B3N table. PRetty happy with that result - even though we did spend over four hours straight in the field. THe saying "catches win matches" was never more true. Hospital's chief resistor had a sitter dropped when he was on less that 5, and managed to go on to score a painfully slow 50+ score. Them's the breaks I guess. At least I managed to make some decent enough choices in the rotation of bowlers that I don't think anybody was completely stuffed by the time we spent in the field.

Blogger's stuffing around on the back-end is causing irritating problems in updating the site for everyone. OF course their initial stuffing-around seems to have broken the permalinks, and I haven't been bothered/had time to sit down and fix them yet.

Been a quiet week at work so far. At least no-one's shown up there drunk or decided to puke their guts up during intermission.........yet.

There's an unwritten law for computers that no matter how much hard drive space you have - the data will always expand to fill it. Sigh - time to fire up the burner again and do a clear-out. Thank god blank cd's are cheap as chips. Remember when you'd pay $20 for a box of 10 Disks. Now you can pick up spindle packs of 50 cdr's for less than 20 bucks if you know where to look.

Been enjoying the new Metallica album quite a bit this week. Picked it up for literally just over $20. I remember reading a week or so ago on a message board someone claiming that the whole clamour over parallel importing was a beat-up by the Howard Government and it hadn't had a positive effect. Seems to me the fact that you can buy new release albums for the $20 mark instead of the $29.95+ range you had a few years ago is proof that this is a load of bullshit (unless you shop at a rip-off merchant like $anity of HMV - but then you deserve it for being stupid). Then again - you still hear whinging from the various recording industry bodies worldwide that the internet is still to blame for any decrease in their profitability record sales. Maybe if every second cd release wasn't by some shit-house Britney/Christina clone (yes Avril - you're just as prepackaged as the rest of these bimbo's - why aren't you still doing your Shania impressions from your early demos?) or craptastic bling-bling hip-hop rap crap (how did all those hard-kore gansta's manage to learn how to use all that high-tech sequencing, mixing, balancing and equilizing equipment when they claim to be so busy poppin' caps and smacking bitches while hangin' in 'da hood????).

Back on those Matrix movies - here is an excellent analysis of some of the problems Revolutions has. Despite enjoying the movie - I agree with alot of this.

And finally - talking about hard core - Peter Jackson really wants those movies finished on time doesn't he.