Mr Mist’s Blog

Cheap Plastic Stuff of the week will be tomorrow this week, as I’ve not been into town today. I was shifting furniture around houses instead. Argh.

Meanwhile, take a look at this site with the biscuit of the week [nicecupofteaandasitdown]. Class.

People cause the problems really. In any event, people are now advised not to visit India [news.bbc.co.uk], in a widening of a Foreign Office advisory that has been applied to parts of Pakistan and India for a few weeks now.

There’s no friday five [fridayfive.org] this week, the website just mentions personal problems. So I hope they are sorted out soon. Personal problems are not good.

I forgot to say, I finished Dungeon Siege some time a week ago or something. It was okay but a bit too hack and slash for my liking. Anyhow I enclose a screen shot of the lower levels, which looked very impressive in real time as all the lava you see was flowing away in the background. Nice. Click the thumbnail to see it in 1024 * 768.

I just noticed this story on adverts on blogs [www.pressflex.com] (which is, itself, an advert if you read through it) (via Blogdex [blogdex.media.mit.edu]) which raises a few interesting ideas, but I have to wonder, how many people who read blogs (I’m assuming that a certain demographic reads certain blogs) would bother to click on the adverts that a blog showed?

How many readers click on *any* web adverts at all? I don’t. Well, I hardly ever do, and it’s even less rare that I will buy anything as a result. Would you click on adverts that were more "targeted"? Do you think that you could target adverts based on what you thought your blog readers were interested in? Do you know what your blog readers are interested in? I don’t really. I write about what *I’m* interested in mostly.

Still, maybe I should write about what you people are interested in. So if you want that, tell me what you’re interested in, you lovely readers you.

Yazoomey is probably not a word, but I thought I would use it as a title for this entry because nothing else came to mind. Today was nana’s funeral. I’m not much of a one for funerals, though today’s was fairly quick and good I suppose as they go.
In the news, I see that Sunita has left the Big Brother house [news.bbc.co.uk]. Well, there’s my prediction proved then. A person like her obviously just couldn’t stick in the same place as the other fool housemates. Too different to fit in I guess, or something. I’ve not been watching the programmes so I don’t know if anything happened to make her leave. The article suggests she was just bored of the same rooms. (Hmm, gee, I wonder what she expected though?) Publicity stunt? Probably.

EU legislation to allow monitoring of Internet use is coming into law [news.bbc.co.uk]. This gives law enforcement people the power to look at Internet usage logs and forces ISPs to keep detailed logs of what their customers access. So basically it’s a Big Brother state. (In the 1984 [www.amazon.co.uk] sense, not the tv programme.)