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Rain now, rain later - rain all morning...

My attempt to complete Mission 101 Task 4 - Walk to another town and back in a day is cancelled. It really couldn't be any worse - and it's such a shame for the air-show, too...

Maybe next year - if there's a show next year.

Update - 1049 Surprise FUCKING surprise - the rain is flipping me the bird by holding off, and the sun is now shining. Seriously pissed off right now.

Update - 1150 The BBC weather forecasts are BOLLOCKS. It says "heavy rain 1000 to 1300" - I haven't seen one drop since about 0730. If I try to set foot outside to go and watch the display from the harbour, it willpiss down on me. I can sense it...

Update - 1505 Stayed home. It started raining about 15 minutes ago, and may just be concluding as I write. Lots of low(er) cloud cover may be limiting the display quite a bit. Saw Patrouille de France earlier - bet some not at the base thought it was The Red Arrows...

Update - 1605 The clouds start to break up for the end of The Red Arrows' display. Guess we've had all the rain we were going to get, dammit.
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Last night... Jeez, haven't the Redskins sucked this season? Not a single TD against the Cowboys this season, not a single win in the division... *sobs* All that remains now is to get thrashed by the Chargers...

Elsewhat... Vegging day today. Nothing serious is planned, just whatever development work happens to be inspired. I anticipate not a lot, although I'd rather like a small-scale printed copy of the timeline I unearthed yesterday.

An interesting thing... All Sikh names are unisex! I never knew that!

Shopping news... Great - netbooks are "on the way out", according to some sources. Manufacturers seem to be missing the point, apparently, going for higher and higher specs, and pushing up prices - all I need is a cheap, highly portable means of creating Wordpad .rtf files, with net access as a desirable but not essential bonus - the One Laptop Per Child people seem to be coming up with suitable alternatives, but these things never seem to be available for public consumption. Bloody typical...

And finally... Oh dear - school children are using proxy servers to get around school internet restrictions... but that's making them even more vulnerable to log-on theft and the more unscrupulous elements out there. Laugh? I nearly sh8 myself...

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