Read an interesting article in New Scientist about life online which made me realise how limited my internet life actually is...it occurred to me that I have absolutely zero online pals (i.e. people that I have never met in real life), every one I skype, email or otherwise are all people I have an existing fleshy (so to speak) life with. On those rare occasions when someone contacts me who I don't recognise it gets deleted straight away. Further, theres no way I want to have a myspace profile - I just don't have the time, or give ammunition to a future employer. Living online: Give it a try - tech - 17 September 2006 - New Scientist Tech Anyway, the interesting stat from the linked article is that 79% of British youth utilises instant messaging either via internet or telephone. Fucking hell, my phone does not even have a camera.

Obsessing on: Getting more air on more bicycle, c'mon on weekend.
Hooray for me/sweating about: Got the second interview with M - next week. Golly.
Why oh why: Haven't I seen any movies recently (angst after reading empire magazine recently).
Read: Astonishing X-Men written by the 'we are not worthy' Joss Whedon...most excellent (which the above gag came from).

Not often I poke gentle fun at the Swedish lanquage but this makes me chuckle every time I pass it......

Had my first interview with M today. As they said in there email that the interview would include not only a logical assignment but also a personality test I'd thought I'd preempt them and apply a little reverse psychology. The interview went something like this:

Interviewer: "So, J, I thought we could start by you telling us a little about yourself"
J: "Actually, I thought you could tell me something about yourself"
Interviewer: "But this is your interview, I'm asking the questions"
J: "Does it upset you when I ask the questions? You're being very evasive"
interviewer: "But if you ask the questions then I feel a bit useless...I mean a bit....
J: "inadequate?"
Interviewer: "yes, exactly."
J: "Do you feel inadequate often?"
Interviewer: "well yes, not always but sometimes when I get tired or stressed"
J: "Just at work?....."
Interviewer: "Well (coughs nervously, looks at feet), things have not been going so well at home......"
J: "let it out, its okay if you want to cry"

Surprisingly, it was nothing like that. However, it was pretty positive. I scored in the top third on the logic test and the personality test bracketed me as self assured and analytical with a tendency to sweat the small stuff and not take criticism well. Which, on the basis of a thirty minute chat and a few forms is pretty accurate. Lets see if they think I'm analytical enough for a second interview.

Listening:Benny Hill and Grandstand Tunes...totally recommend spending some time here.
Reading: Hellblazer, Ghost Rider.....erhm, and some shit sci-fi called Polaris which is pants.
Link:Heres a link to the UK skeptics website Home HTML, I have not really checked their site out much so if it turns out that they are funded by Exxon (as http://www.junkscience.com/ is - basically set up to rubbish the 'pseudoscience' of climate change.....check out George Monbiots new book 'Heat' serialised on the Guardian Online pages) then I apologise.

Exxon Secrets......depressing and fascinating. what more could you want.

Yisrayl Hawkins: "The House of Yahweh Prophecy
of 9-12-2006 Has Been Fulfilled "...or, if you look at this woo woo's website, we're seven days into a nuclear holocaust which no one has actually noticed.

Guardian Unlimited The Guardian 150 injured as Hungarians riot over PM's 'lies': "There is not much choice, because we screwed up. Not a little, a lot. No European country has done something as boneheaded as we have,' he said. 'Evidently, we lied throughout the last year-and-a-half, two years.
'You can't show me any significant government measure that we can be proud of, other than, in the end, we managed to drag the government back from the brink.'"

fucking hell, straight talk indeed. Don't even ask me about the Swedish elections......anyway, the toot is that I've got an interview with behemoth which is M tomorrow - so we'll see. Must remember 'bum titty wee. bum titty wee.'.

Yisrayl Hawkins...brilliant, -1 day remaining until nuclear war. Its quite nice out, I'm going to the park with my family. Carrying some Factor 10 000, just in case.

This came from the observer, fantastic. Cannot wait for 'Hot Fuzz' described as Michael Mann directing Midsomer Murders....hows that for a slice of fried gold?

Only one day left! Hurry hurry! Do all those things you've never got around to doing because as from midnight tonight its all going to hell in a handbasket........and its all according to woo woo Yisrayl Hawkins who has found all this in revelations. I tried reading some of his stuff on the website but it was like letting ants crawl around in my head. Anway, as he says on his website '1 day left before the start of nuclear war'. Golly, he's a nut. A brazil nut, or perhaps a cashew.

Just to put your minds at rest I say, in my capacity as Arch Nematode of the High Church of Lost Socks, that it won't happen and the only mishap tomorrow will be the disappearance of a small dog called Alan from his home in Kendel. Don't worry, he'll be found in time for his tea.

BBC NEWS Africa Sudan man forced to 'marry' goat: "'When I asked him: 'What are you doing there?', he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up'. "

BBC NEWS Africa Sudan man forced to 'marry' goat: "'When I asked him: 'What are you doing there?', he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up'. "

Hitler and Stalin were possessed by the Devil, says Vatican exorcist the Daily Mail.......speechless.

Dust has settled. New baby is back home - after a trip back to the hospital when, after only a few days home, her fever went back up and we were back in Malmö MAS (the local sick-house (direct translation) for two days. Well, K was while I spent the evenings protecting our local environment from our older child. Anyhoo, shes all better now - with a diagnosis of 'a virus' which, as is internationally known, is doctor speak for 'have not got a 'king clue but thank Christ she seems better now'.

All is cool.

Rants: 1. Madonna touting 'healing water', the UK response being (when Mads and her hubby approached the government with their scheme to clear up nuclear waste with mystical Kabbalah fluid) '...just bollocks'. More of the same please! 2. Ex-pats moaning. Don't get me started. Deep breath then repeat 'if you don't like it, fuck off home'.
Listening to: System of a Down. Metallica.
More Rants: Being told I'm overqualified for a secretarial job (perhaps it was the fact that my CV says at its top 'Academic Ninja').