It feels like Friday...

... but it isn't. It's Thursday. I am ready for the weekend! Turns out they are releasing Howl's Moving Castle here this weekend at one theater. And one that's pretty close to my house too so double bonus! I'll probably hit Batman Begins as well - maybe Friday night...

The BBC had some great articles today. First, the guy who had been in jail for 2 years and who had always used crutches, suddenly threw them away and made a (successful) run for it during his hearing:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4099348.stm

Turns out everyone assumed he was disabled when, in fact, he wasn't.

Second, the lady who won the lottery. Twice. This just ain't fair...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4098322.stm

Can't make this a long post - it's "Kids in the Office Day" at my company and so I have to go scare the children....

Shut UP Bob...

Good Grief. Bob Geldof is at it again. This time, he's going up against EBay because they're allowing sales of tickets for his latest charity show. The Live 8 show is going to be in Hyde Park next month and apparently tickets are being re-sold on EBay for up to £1,000 a pair.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4090774.stm

Geldof is trying to get Ebay to drop the auctions, and barring that, is telling people to make impossible bids and to fake out the auction.

The thing that gets me here is all his righteous indignation. Nobody is doing anything illegal here. In fact, Ebay has offered to donate all the money they make on the tickets to the cause. But nooo, Bob's too Moral for that:

"It is not acceptable is that a giant electronic company that makes billions upon billions then morally says we will just hand over our take to a charity.
"It is filthy money made on the back of the poorest people on the planet. Stick it where it belongs."

He basically hates the free market. I wonder how much he's worth, and why he isn't living with the bare minimum so he can give everything else to charity... I wonder if everytime some poor misguided soul buys a copy of "I Don't Like Mondays," every shilling of royalties goes to Africa. If he's living in a van on the Thames, I might be able to stomach him. It's the hypocrisy I can't deal with.

Pants! And Tupperware!

I went to my first ever Tupperware party today. It was all I expected it to be. Exactly.

I shall say no more. It was for a good cause.

I also went to the movies - saw the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. It was actually an OK movie... I was suprised. It was sort of heavy, for what is apparently a pre-teen movie. But I guess kids handle heavier things these days. In my day, we had Judy Blume and we liked it :)