Walsingham

I re-watched Wong Kar Wai's Fallen Angels. Quite apart from having some of the sexiest lady moments in it, it's got gunfights, and a man massaging a pig. Quite fantastic.

I'm glad he's not ill any more. I looked, and he mentioned it himself in the afterword to his last book.

Can some clever chap please give an idiot's guide to the present Chinese government system?

That university thing sounds terrible. They don't make any distinction between why people drop out? I would suggest that the Minister responsible drop out, and be henceforth unable to get government funding.

I have been furiously working on securing contracts today. Had some moderate success moving towards a deal. Good luck on the interview, mate. Never knock warehouse work. Plenty of exercise, and usually the people are good for a laugh.

Or it might have something to do with the fact that Putin appears to murder his domestic critics, even on our soil. But I'm sure you'll tell me his KGB thing was 'just a phase all young men go through'?

He certainly does. I heard the poor chap was ill, though. I must confess I also liked the Wild Card stories. That really would be due for an MMORPG.

Your fist is weak.

The kid's not ugly. Just not picture perfect. And yeah, that crap may fly in the States, but we're not quite as viciously Mendelian here yet.* *Because we're all misshapen goofy lard-balls.

It just seems extraordinary that everyone's so keen to pick sides, and practically grab a rifle and head off to kill the 'bad guys'. But I'll be damned if I'm the only one who first started reading about the place on Saturday.

Another faking scandal, and does this not sum up the Olympics: A lot of smoke, fire, sound, and fury, signifying nothing?

That's a very good point. The main thing with teh tiels is my Bioshock fixation. But tribal/VtM designs might be cool.

ahhh! oh wait, you're a chick. ok. And otherwise there'd be a problem?

I just love the way everyone's suddenly an expert on the Caucusus. Seriously. WTF, gentlemen?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...-years-ago.html Exam results are two to three grades easier. I don't know why it's taken so long to prove. I have interviewed candidates with 5 freaking As at A-Level who were as switched on as a pound of butter; while people I knew who had three straight As were and are the cleverest around and couldn't have fitted in any more work. Frankly I feel sorry for the poor bastards studying today. They obviously don't really get the chance to prove themselves.

Seriously? I don't know, could be Why not? I declare it to be so!

I may have to begin espousing the theory that Sand is God, and he created the World in seven days. 'Loh, and on the remaining days he art seen in the convenience store, racially profiling customer's soft drink choices.'

Yeh, that's what they said about nuclear hair curlers.

Does paper DnD have fumbles?

A happy ending!

I don't know, but I don't see why you'd need to be invisible closer than, say 30 feet. Think about it. You want to be invisible so you can observe things, or deliver some sort of effect. You can do either at 30 feet, using simple tools.

Well, the brutal truth is that maybe someone ballsed up? I mean Saddam thought he could invade Kuwait and no-one would make a fuss. Maybe the same reason? Unclear messages from State?

Liking it. Although it's made me mahdi, and I just nearly through* my no good MATLAB simulation out the window. *What the hell is up with my spelling today?

Seriously?

Surely it simply makes it more clear that a general bonhomie doesn't substitute for actual defences. Again, I should put my hand firmly up and admit I misunderstood the timeline. It sems from several sources that Georgia moved in first. On the other hand, it looks as if the Russians may have been waiting for it to go ahead, with only 12 hours passing between the Georgians rolling, and the first heavy units rolling through the tunnel. I don't see it myself, but I concede that maybe this is how Russia felt when NATO rolled against Serbia?