Mr Mist’s Blog

There’s a fair few odd things going on this week, one of them is Facebook’s reaction to the recent fuss over facebook content privacy, which is to generate some kind of democracy of the people to decide how its rules go.

Now, I honestly didn’t see what all the fuss was about in any event on this one. I mean, who really cares if facebook has rights to your comments? “Mr mist is eating dinner”, “Mr mist is browsing the web”, “Mr mist is facebooking”. Wow. That’s content that’s worth owning. Still, I suppose some people out there have Facebook accounts with less inane comments, heck, some have even lost their jobs over Facebook status remarks, but, really, is it actually so bad or so important that every future decision now has to be decided in an internet comittee?

Really guys, good luck with that one. Prior evidence of arguments on the Internet suggests that they go around in circles with no outcome, so I guess Facebook will now be stuck in a quagmire of pointless net bickering, and there endeth the progress.

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Gmail disappeared for a number of hours today with an as-yet-undefined issue that affected the free gmail service as well as the paid for hosted mail apps functionality. Unfortunately for Google, the popularity of the service means then when they do go down, it pretty much gets noticed. I wonder if we will hear the cause of this one.

In other news, I was pretty disappointed to see this story pop up. New childrens’ TV presenter Cerrie Burnell has become the target of criticism. Why? because she has only one hand. Amazingly, people have expressed that they think it is too “disturbing” for their kids to watch. Seriously? I don’t even know where to start with that one. Maybe if you educated your own kids instead of being too scared or bigoted to talk to them, then they wouldn’t have an issue. At least the comments on the BBC magazine article are mostly reasonable, showing that the majority of people are (possibly) still sane.

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It’s reported that Simon Cowell wants to be cryogenically frozen so that he can be brought back to life in the future. Imagine that. It could be like those heads in jars such as they have on Futurama, except that it would be Simon Cowell given opinions on futuristic musical talent shows.

How super. I’m not sure that the future is ready for him, though.

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Bizzywig off of Bizzywig’s Blog suggested that I might want to look at creating some new mouldy stuff, using Piccalilli. 

Now, I’ve not done any mould experiments for a while now. I’m not completely adverse to creating a new one – though my wife is not as taken by the idea as I am – but I would need to be sure that it’s the right one. 

Of course, Piccalilli has the advantage that the mould is automatically contained within the very jar that the foodstuff arrives in.  The downside to this, I think, compared to my previous exploits, would be that the jar would offer a relatively small surface area from which to observe the mould growth.  This does concern me a little. 

I think at this point though that I would not be happy with the mould-inna-icecream-tub approach that I’ve used before, because it would be all too prone to damage from cat interest.

So I guess it is open to you, the readers.  If you want to see any particular mouldy stuff experiment next, please comment and let me know.   (I should say that I won’t be doing any mouldy meat experiments.  Mouldy meat is just too much, and I’m not quite that bonkers. )

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Today – and following up to what now seems to be one of my most commented posts ever, having attracted the attention of people of all types – we learn that Jade Goody’s fiance has had his legal curfew relaxed by the Ministry of Justice.

Since this was a curfew that was imposed after an assault on a teenager with a golf club, I wonder what that teenager and his family think about this? Is this a blanket ruling now to cover all marriage ceremonies? No, maybe just those being covered by top selling magazines for the terminally ill? Or just the ones for those who have previously been minor celebrities, and have great publicists?

I’d like to imagine that the authorities sat down and thought very clearly over the merits of relaxing the curfew, but quite a large part of me thinks that it was pretty heavily influenced by the media.

Quick update to add that, no, the victim isn’t that happy about it.

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