Screensaver tackles spam websites

Fantastic concept… use your computers downtime to increase the bandwidth of spammers websites! And thus increase their costs and decrease their speed.

Some more art that I like. ImageNETion -Art Galleries Check out the Rodney Matthews images.

Flavour of the month is: Coriander! Yep, for some reason my taste buds are gaggin’ for it. Only a few years ago I was a Coriander hater, but now I have turned to the dark side… it follows along similar lines for the recent Tastes of the months being, Apricot and then Cinnamon!

I decided to go and pick Rebekah up from school a little early today. Thought I’d watch her play in the playground for a while; you can so much insight about your children by watching them when they can’t see you. Anyway, it seemed a good idea at the time. However, I actually felt a little nervous as I walked onto the school grounds. I wanted to watch Rebekah without her seeing me, that was key, but I decided I couldn’t kind of hide, that would look suspicious. So I had no choice but to view from a clear open vantage point and hope that Rebekah wouldn’t notice me, kinds often don’t living in that strange world of theirs.

I think it took about 2 minutes before one of the playground assitants came over to me to question my motives. Now she never actually said anything like, “Excuse me sir, but just why are you stood in the school grounds watching the children playing?” But I knew that’s exactly what she was thinking when she asked me, “Are you ok, do you need any help?” And that was it, I didn’t really feel like being there anymore, but couldn’t exactly retreat back to the car without raising concerns and a possible child security scare. So instead I stood there like a lemon, a bitter one if you please, and watched Rebekah play uninterestaded until one of her friends notified her that I was at school and she came over to talk to me… you can guess how well that went down with the nervy playground assistant.

What I did wonder was; had I been a women, would anyone have come to ask me what I was doing there?

Just finished ‘Bag Of Bones: Stephen King’ on Sunday. I really enjoyed it, had me gripped over the weekend when I read most of the 660 pages. I also finished The Water is Wide:Pat Conroy’ last week. I really enjoyed it, even if it has taken me months to read a rather small book, but hey things got in the way. It’s nowhere near as good as Beach Music though, but then he did write TWIW almost 30 years ago!

Before that I finished ‘The Electric Michaelangelo:Sarah Hall’ I did enjoy that as well, but I’m not sure what is required to be on the ‘booker shortlist’. I guess having just finished a Stephen King novel and just started another ( The Long Walk, written under the name Richard Bachman ), it made me think about all that literature snobbery that goes on. I would say that TEM is a better written book, ie: use of words and language, however, Kings’s stories are ALL better - and to me, that’s the important thing.