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This lot should have won IMHO. With Ukraine and Sweden in joint 2nd place.

Is this guy good or what?

Whilst ‘upgrading’ the water pipes outside my house (iron->plastic), the ever-helpful workmen have sliced through the phone cable outside the house, and it apparently won’t be repaired until Sunday. Not entirely sure how that’s happened, because we’re connected to the the phone network via an overhead cable to a nearby telegraph pole. Not going to put too much thought into working that out though.

In the meantime I’ve connected my mobile to my PC and am using it as an incredibly overpriced modem - at £1/Mb, I’m expecting to end up with a £100 bill next month. The water company will be getting a copy of the bill…

Black Book is Paul Verhoeven’s lastest work and is full of violence and naked people, much as you’d expect. But these elements are layered onto a well-written script, superb camera work and a brilliant cast (Carice van Houton is amazing). Highly recommended.

Today is voting day - traditionally a day where you vote for politicians based on what they promise to do for your area/what they’ve done in the past.

However since I haven’t received a single piece of election literature, I don’t know who any of the candidates are for my area, which party they represent, nor why I should vote for them. Since none of them apparently want my vote, none of them will be getting it.

So much for civic duty…

Thanks to a friend who’d rather remain anonymous, I have a copy of the filings in the court case.

Details here (2.5Mb PDF).