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Suicide

Well, they finally did it. The idiots at Cablevision pulled the plug on channels 7 and 9.

I give 'em six months before they go out of business.

The guys at WOW must be laughing right about now.

"Go, mummy, go!"

Mandy ran her first half-marathon today, coming in at an impressive 1 hour, 58 minutes and 28 seconds. Congratulations to her, Chloe, Belinda and all the other runners!

Looking forward to cheering you on in the marathon next year, babe!

Dungeons and dragons

Having a good time with World of Warcraft at the moment. Despite only just starting on the new content, I've already got to fight a bunch of dragons (and do some flying on them too), and complete the first two dungeons, Utgarde Keep and the Nexus. As expected, playing a priest seems to have made it much easier to find a group for the dungeons, healers being in limited supply.

That said, there are ten more dungeons to see (not counting the four raid dungeons, which realistically, I never expect to enter). And even though it's only two months since Wrath of the Lich King came out, the starter zones that I'm questing in right now (I've only just hit level 71) seem surprisingly devoid of other players. Understandable, perhaps, if I was on a low-population server but I'm not, I'm on a high-population one.

So like the Burning Crusade expansion, I doubt whether I'll see even half of those other dungeons before finding a group for them becomes impossible (everybody else being at the point where they're only running them in heroic mode, or raiding). It's a shame, as the dungeons are one of my favourite parts of WOW.

That said, when I hit 80 I'm planning to go back and solo as many of the original WOW dungeons as I can. Many of them I never saw, and it'll give me a chance to get some of my Achievements too (yes, I can see myself becoming a real Achievement whore). I'm particularly looking forward to trying to get into Ragefire Chasm - the easiest dungeon in the whole game, but which is located smack in the middle of one of the opposing faction's cities (meaning getting there is going to be extremely hard without getting killed by players of that faction, or the NPC guards).

The main downside of being back on World of Warcrack is that I don't have the time (or inclination) to play any other games - and there are several good ones out right now (many of which I already have, partly-completed). Hopefully 2009 will be a crap year for games so I have plenty of time to catch up later on!

You're hopeless, but we'd still vote for you

Interesting poll results in today's Royal Gazette, which indicates more whites are unhappy with the UBP (36%) than are happy with it (19%). Pretty sad, then, that 79% of whites say they'd still vote for the party if there was an election tomorrow.

For Christ's sake, if you're dissatisfied with "your" party, don't vote for it anyway. How do you ever expect anything to change if you do?

Idiot

Driving Aidan to school today, an idiot decided to overtake me on a blind corner. If a car or bike had been coming the other way, he would have found it very difficult to pull in in time.

Then the idiot decided to keep going and overtake the car in front of me at the same time. If a car or bike had been coming the other way, he would have found it impossible to pull in in time. He would have had a head-on collision and we would have been caught up in it too.

Hopefully he'll kill himself before he kills anyone else.

I wonder what people like him think when they read about all the deaths on our roads?