Depressingly, the US supreme court has overturned previous verdicts and decided that file-sharing technology companies are responsible for what end users do with their product (see this piece on the BBC).
This could potentially set a bit of a precedent, though… If gun manufacturers could be held accountable for every crime committed with their products…
We got do do a Macgyver-esque trick with my brother’s desk – which was too big to go through the door. I (naturally) came up with the inspired idea of hooking it with some string and pulling in up via the first floor window. It worked!
Fun!
The last three days have been gorgeous. The sun has been shining, people have been soaking it up and everyone’s been in a good mood.
My brother happened to pick this weekend to move (lucky!) , and have spent most of the sunshine days lugging stuff to, from, up, down, left & right. It’s been satisfying for the spring clean that goes alongside it, not to mention how good it is to see Arvind settled into a really nice place of his own and upgrade myself into his room myself!
That said, its been a strangely blue weekend for me. Despite the sunshine, and the excitement of the move, have been feeling somewhat… introspective.
There’ve been a number of things I’ve been thinking about.
(1) Sad that Arv’s going. While I’m mostly happy for brother mine to be spreading his wings, and we did barely see each other when we lived together, he has been a reassuring presence; a safety net and a solid co-habitant. I’ll miss him – although we’ll probably spend more time together now that he’s moved out then while he was living here! And I’ve got my sister’s permanent arrival to look forward to as well, so on the whole, a positive. But a little sad.
(2) I’ve dug up a bunch of correspondance / notes / memories from school and my early days at college. Those were tougher times for me and to be reminded of some of the difficulties was… taxing.
(3) Most of my close circle of friends are on holiday in Croatia! So I’ve been hanging by myself for most of the weekend…
That said, the overwhelming sense of achievement I have now overcomes that, and I think I’ll be able to handle work without too much pain tomorrow… I am 95% settled (well… maybe 80%… I have two large bags of stuff to file / put away that I’ve just bunged togher).
Anyway, this was a bit of a purposeless state-of-mind livejournal worthy post. Bet you weren’t expecting that, Internet. Or maybe you were. Damnit, foiled again.
Here’s hoping for more sunshine.
Yes he does. What a film.
Had a huge time watching this last night (even if an IMAX cinema was possibly the wrong place to see it).
It is massively entertaining. Words fail me. They might help me out again tomorrow, when I’m not running late for work…!
For rubbish posting once again.
I’ve become slightly addicted to a few things. Work, which continues to be entertaining, exciting, exchilarating and exhausting, hanging out with my girl, which is all the same (minus exhausting), and playing the entirely addictive DoTA, a video game Noel (aka cmorbutt) introduced me to a few months back. It sucks the life out of you.
Have also been on a few good walks lately (good to escape London) and am off to Edinburgh in a couple of weeks to celebrate my sister’s graduation with her (she done good!).
All good, really. Will try to be more regular, but its probably sensible not to make any promises…
I’ve learned a bit about RSS feeds and Thunderbird, and so now this site has one! If you want to subscribe to this site and view it with an RSS reader, point your RSS reader here.
RSS is cool!
I’ve only heard Beverly Hills so far, but its really good.
I’ve just seen a preview screening of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Wanting to spare you all from spoilers, I will just say this: it is good. I mean, really, genuinely good — still plagued by some of George Lucas’ ineptitude concerning how men and women (and human beings generally) interact; but good action, good story development, and really getting into the mood the first trilogy had.
Well done, Georgie boy. You may have redeemed yourself somewhat.
…seems to be a pretty rockin’ band, and are suprisingly good when it feels too early in the morning. I approve.
Sorry about the white space below. I need to get better at this whole Interjob netting thingy.
