And the band played on

1. Apparently my shortness of leg (length, not lack thereof) means I have a higher chance of developing heart disease, which I think is blatantly unfair. Not only am I consigned forever to high heels just to reach the height that I want (a couple of inches is all I'm asking, honestly), it now appears that I'm inherently less healthy than taller women (whose totally unwarranted and unnecessary wearing of high heels, by the way, I am sure is only to spite me).

2. When you buy a week's worth of train tickets at once, and then inadvertantly use tomorrow's tickets instead of today's (thus causing complaints and "Seek Assistance" messages from all the ticket barriers you pass through), you expect that at least one of the four separate ticket inspectors to inspect your ticket during the day would notice the incorrect date and tell you about it.

   Apparently, though, this doesn't always happen, which is why my ticket was taken by the ticket inspectors (since it hadn't been swallowed by the barrier) and I had to buy a new ticket the next day, once I realised what the date was.

   My excuse: it was a Monday. I think that's more than enough to justify my brain-fade.

3. I'm getting far more lax about updating my Reading sidebar - for instance, I haven't been reading either of the books listed there (until just now) since last week, so it's just plain inaccurate now. (And I know you care so much, don't you?) I was going to update it from Kevin's at the weekend, but I forgot and my perfectionistic instincts have been nagging me ever since. (Incidentally, see how much I'm taking over his computer... not only do I have my own XP profile - with separate bookmarks, iTunes library, games on the Desktop, etc. - but a couple of my own programs as well, including an FTP client. We haven't quite reached installing a separate email client for me yet, but I think it's possibly coming soon...

4. After about a year of thinking, twiddling, conceptualising and designing, I think I may have finally decided (ooh, see the decisiveness there!) that I don't want to change the design for bent back tulips. I'm not really a designer, and of the (four or five, so far) new redesigns that I've posulated, none of them are as good as the current one. Actually, there's one that I think was equally as good, but not as distinctive. Plus, a) people didn't like the colour scheme, and b) it turned out to be quite autumnal in tone, so I don't really want to implement it when summer's just kicked in.

   And by a startling coincidence, I rather like the design I have at the moment. I should go and completely redo the CSS at some point though. (Something else I've been saying for about a year. One of these days...)

5. I've been going on a slight cheap-DVD spree lately. I tell you, it's just dangerous to look at Play.com, Sendit.com, or others of that ilk if you have a credit card close to hand. They're even worse than browing Amazon - Amazon at least have the decency to try and put you off by charging you postage, and by having lousy navigation on their "Bargains" sections.

   See, since I want a decent-to-superduper computer for university, capable of playing DVDs well, I've been thinking over the last year that it'd be a good idea to accumulate films on DVD so that I can still watch them at uni (since, presumably, the only access to a video I'll have is Kevin's). Of my favourite films, one that I'd really like to have on DVD is Blade Runner, so off I trotted to Amazon to check editions, prices, and such.

   Having searched, I find out that the only version of Blade Runner that it's possible to buy on DVD:

   1. is a special edition
   2. has no mention of any special features, other than being able to see that it comes in a large box
   3. costs £50 RRP.

   What, might I ask, is so special about this special edition that it is worth this inordinate amount of money? And why the deletion of other, simpler, cheaper editions that people might genuinely want instead? Searching Usenet for "Blade Runner DVD special edition" found a lot of people (quite recently) speculating on when the special edition would ever come out, since it's been promised for a couple of years. So I'm not quite sure what to make of that, other than wishing that a) someone would buy me the really expensive version (my birthday's coming up in a few months, dear readers!) or b) they'd bring back a cheaper version for me.

6. After nearly a year, I'm still the first Google result for "Discworld fanfic", despite the fact that, to my knowledge, no one has ever linked to the article in question. All I can say is "Gah", very loudly.