Mr Mist’s Blog

As NTL Broadband customers have limits imposed on the amount they can download per day [news.bbc.co.uk] the question comes up of is this the way of the future? Will we be going full cycle back to itemised billing, except by the MB instead of by the second? Obviously always on/ unlimited use counts for nothing these days…

I’ll do the Friday Five [fridayfive.org], I suppose, being as Friday has arrived already.

1. What did you have for breakfast this morning? If you didn’t have breakfast, why not?

I had porridge with banananana in it. Yummy.

2. What’s your favorite cereal?

Weetabix I guess. I change quite often.

3. How often do you eat out? Do you want that to change?

Not very often, unless you count McDonalds. Which I don’t. I wouldn’t mind it changing.

4. What do you plan on having for dinner tonight? Got a recipe for that?

It’s pizza tonight, mmmm, pizza.

5. What’s your favorite restaurant? Why?

I don’t have a favourite, cos I don’t go to them enough.

It’s Thursday already. Can you belive that? I’m sure it wasn’t a minute ago I was saying I’d be putting up Cheap Plastic Stuff on Sunday, and I still haven’t created the page yet. I’m such a lazy git. I need more motivation. I haven’t started my OU stuff either, yet.

Anyway, news rollup thingy time -

Blair is meeting with the weapons inspectors now [news.bbc.co.uk] in order to discuss how the operations are likely to proceed. I’m not sure why though, as the course of action seems to be planned out such as Iraq gets hit regardless of what the Inspectors come up with (or don’t). You can see the things that Mr Powell presented to the UN here [news.bbc.co.uk] to draw whatever conclusions you would like from them.

Meanwhile, in Korea, the North Korean’s aren’t going to stand around waiting to become the next Iraq [news.bbc.co.uk]. They’ve signalled their intent to shoot first and ask questions later if the US starts massing troops in the area. I have to admit I’d find it a bit disconcerting too, seeing what’s happening around Iraq.

Saddam says he has no weapons of mass destruction [news.bbc.co.uk]. But it really does look like Mr Bush doesn’t care about what Saddam says. His assumption is that they just lie about that anyway, and definitely do have the weapons of mass destruction. Saddam must be in the wrong, then, I guess.

Final Phase [news.bcc.co.uk] is what we’re moving into now. Final phase has a definite ring of completeness to it, as in Iraq being completely destroyed. I do hope both sides are ready for the complete mess that this war will be, but I doubt it.

The investigation into the loss of the shuttle goes on [news.bbc.co.uk] with some indications of a heat rise before the break up and the loss of tiles on re-entry.