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There are 309 thoughts in the random thoughts section (the ones that come up at the top of the page). There'd be more but I havent been working on the very much lately.

Happy birthday Jamie! I think… His party is today anyway…

Went to see Troy today. I used to be a wibbling fanboi for Greek mythology so I pretty much know the story of it, though not nearly to the level of all my classicist friends, so (I wasn't particularly put off by the changes from the original Greek works. Unfortunately that isn?t the problem, the problem is that it simply is not a very good film. Bring on shirtless Orlando though :-)

I've pretty much run out of random pictures so I'm not going to be blogging for a while, given the main chunk of my finals start on Wednesday and I need a much better return for my procrastination time than this gives.

I'll probably be back around the 25th of May :-)

I hate being tired all the time…

I have a Spanish Oral Assessment tomorrow :-( At least there's a nice view from the Library. (Mildly clickable.)

The word spreads… I thought the change of URL a little while back might have thrown people off, but apparantly not. Yay!

Look have http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~esuqq/2003_04_01_oldblog

Just went to talk given by Kouji Ohbishi, founding President and current chairman of DoCoMo. Although most of it was just him bigging-himself up for taking the company from a loss-making subsidiary dumped by it's mother company for being crap to the largest mobile phone company in Japan. Still, it was curious to see his entourage of wizened VIP businessmen in their giant BMWs, and the fact everything had to go through a translator was interesting to watch.

Apparently the rich Chinese minority- a mere 40 million - pay stupidly inflated prices to get mobiles with the very latest gadgets :-) Who knew?

I was greatly looking forward to Troy, an epic film with Orlando Bloom and Brad Pitt, clearly a hottie fest! Recently I saw the trailer though and something odd seems to have happened to my taste in men, because Pitt looks like a pug-nosed mummies boy and Bloom looks like a foppish nonce. Not attractive in the least. Thankfully respite comes from an unexpected quarter; Eric Bana as Dark-and-Brooding(TM) Reluctant-Hero(TM) Hector… Well he's very nice indeed.

Here's a bunch of screenshots from the film so you can make your own mind up. Very slight spoilers ;-) (P.S. The Trojans lose.)

Unrelated pic:

It's that time of year again folks! Exam stress is hitting me now in a big stylee and teaming up with a lack of sleep and general isolation to make me feel every single shade of shite.

I'd give my right arm for a hand on my shoulder. Ironic huh?

I know I've managed to keep this blog free of improprietous self-indulgent angst for a long time now, but hell it's my blog (in all but actuality).

Remember kids, Love is just another four-letter word.

'sera posible en un futuro trabajar sin salir de casa?

No estoy seguro que en el futuro todo la gente puede trabajar en casa, pero esta claro que cada dia hay m's teletrabajadores. Hoy d?a mucha gente ya hacen teletrabaja, pero depende en cual sector trabajar. Las empresas dan sus instrucciones por via telem?tica y el empleo devuelve el resulta en la misma manera. As? gente puede trabajar sin la necesidad de salir de casa. En esto caso pueden llevar lo que les gustan y pueden trabajar cuando les gustan. Tambi?n puede ir de compras o usar telebancos. Cada d?a hay menos razones para dejar su casa si tiene un ordinador. No estoy seguro que esto es un bueno idea en general, porque hablar y conocer con otros humanos es muy importante para una vida sana y feliz. Un otra problema con los trabajos de esto tipo es la mayoridad son proyectos, son trabajos muy inseguros, excepto si hace un trabajo muy especializado.

Spent the first half of Saturday queueing for Final Fling tickets whilst reading the economist, eating strawberries and cream, drinking coke and playing cards.

The second half I spent drinking wine and then dancing at Boogie Nights/Reckless. Also found out that Chez went to primary school with someone I went to secondary school with (Jim Grant). Small world.