Friday Fun

It's 4:35AM. It's been two weeks of no Duckie. I hope he's well. There's been some bad flooding in NSW I'm told. I'd hate to think seven years of friendship is being tossed away. I'm trying to stay calm and my mind on other things. This month's calendar image is Brisbane's King George Square which is apparently being dug up for tunnel work.

Kitty was just having a bite to eat. Go kitty!

The Paris Hilton "reassignment" was Thursday's big story. Murray was embarrassed Aus has been so interested in it. The UK seems less so thus I declare there's a sliver of hope for civilization. Obviously the big deal with the Paris development is the unequal treatment under the law. She did three days in prison but got credit for five because she arrived just before midnight and left around 2am, she got credited with those few hours as entire days in prison. That's just silly. The judge specifically excluded house arrest as an option in his sentencing order. The entertainment value here is over the L.A. Sheriff's dept. attempting to explain its way clear of a potential contempt citation. For me, this is a local story about fundamental issues of equity.

The meat recall was expanded. I need to look up the details. I took out my garbage and picked up my mail for the first time in a couple days. Wow, I had enough ads to revive a rainforest. Some of them were even addressed to me! I had at least one each for two prior residents. I mailed a bill too. It was very still tonight, not even a hint of breeze. For awhile I ran the ceiling fans. The windows have been wide open tonight to air out the apartment. Kitty seems to be doing OK.

My neck in pained so I took a nap earlier.

I have not found anyone who has tuned in for CW's "Wild Palms" yet but I'm still asking around. I saw portions of an episode on Wednesday. I also happened to watch an episode of "The Traveler" which has the most ridiculous casting I've seen in ages. It's as if a sea of secondary players decided to gang up and do a show. There's a reason these folks haven't been leads before. Oh well, it keeps costs down. The story isn't as compelling as you'd think a story of a pair of college grads set-up as patsies for a terrorist attack on an art museum could be.

ABC finally axed Isaiah Washington from "Greys Anatomy." In another line of work he'd have been fired on the spot for slugging Patrick Dempsey on the set. T.R. Knightly, the "faggot" on whom Washington was picking on, will be back with a pay raise. I always thought Isaiah was homely. I wonder if his career is over or if he'll make a come back like Rob "underage sex tape" Lowe, or Marv "the biter" Alpert. Time will tell.

Next week is the Apple "World-Wide Development Conference" (WWDC). We'll finally get a look at the "feature complete" Leopard. I'm not keen on the rumors of color anodized aluminum enclosures for upcoming iMacs. Netscape is back with a 9.x beta (Windows & Mac OS X). I tried it for a few minutes. It's like Firefox but has added Netscape.com-specific junk and its very tacky looking.

It's gone to the trash can already. Camino, a Mac-native, browser which uses the same rendering engine as Firefox is up to 1.5 this week. Compared to Firefox, Opera, Webkit nightly, it's very frisky on older Power PC-based Macs. Good work. In the olden days, I think Camino was started by the guy who Apple hired to lead the Safari / Webkit project.

Researches powered a light bulb wirelessly. I should find that link and add it later.