Mr Mist’s Blog

The Register has this story that AOL has blocked access to their chat network from the Trillian client. If you read further it seems like it only stops secure communication, though I’ve not been able to log into AIM with Trillian for a few days now.

Here is a BBC news story on a survey of University students. Apparently most of them think university and the resultant debt is “worth it”. Hmm, I wonder who they got to take that survey, they would certainly have got some different answers from me. Ha.

I’ve submitted this blog to the Blogphiles web ring (no longer available), and the link code is over there to the left. I’m not sure if it’ll work until my site gets added into the ring properly though.

Today I opened the door to let the cat out and the postman had left a parcel on the doorstep for me! Now, I don’t really agree with leaving parcels out on the doorstep in the rain but since it was a parcel for me I thought “woo”.

When I opened it, I found a squeezy cloth cow inside! How cool is that? Here is a picture of the cow eating a pear. (Note: It’s not really eating the pear, the cow is a toy, and the pear is not ripe yet.). Thanks are due to Mr Rhys for sending the cow (and cow related business cards) and no doubt to his girlfriend Dell who I imagine had some part in the idea.

Unexpected presents are excellent.
Update - as I’ve now spoken to Mr Rhys, it’s a shared present from him and Dell, with equal amounts of ideaness from both, which is nice. I do appreciate cow related things. Mooo. Now I shall think of something equally devious to send to them. *ponders*

A few things to blog this morning. First off, digital photography is growing more quickly than net usage in the states. Online print services are one of the major beneficiaries of this, as you might expect.

At home, a prematures baby’s body was thrown into the laundry and put through the boil wash cycle at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Kent. Which sounds pretty unbelievable to me.

A few web sites for you to look at are Lego Death (URL no longer available), which is quite amusing and .. well that’s actually it for today, nothing more to report.
Overseas, President Bush has said in his address that the war on terrorism has only just started. The BBC news story is here. If you look at his popularity graph though you can see how quickly it’s returning to pre trade centre attack levels, so perhaps support is falling for the policies?

Nothing really to blog today, so if you’re board take a look at this web page, which shows a glass of water.

Update 31/01/2002 - (and a thermometer.)