Something you don't see everyday is a freshly crashed truck. Long truck with the wheels still spinning and two chaps climbing from the cab. People dotted around the scene in their cars, with one chap looking particularly down about something.

Could have simply been shaken by the incident that so recently occurred (but hey that wouldn't be very interesting) or perhaps he feels responsible for the mid morning traffic shenanegins? One of those supposedly important life lesson moments. People always seem to say they learnt a valuable lesson when they were doing something, they themselves classified as "Oh it doesn't matter I'm doing this, it's only ME, it's not really important that I follow the rule/law that was only put there to protect me and/or others from JUST THIS OUTCOME"
So rather than fess up to even just themselves that they were a complete selfish idiot, they look back on this incident with worldly wise 20-20 hindsight, and apparently "learn" something from it.
They are just a bit late I'm afraid, as someone (a qualified responsible by law, governing body) who saw this thing before anyone else said, "Hey, we never saw that coming, so lets make sure that we tell everyone concerned about this risk."
That's why people can say,"Yeah it's a risk, but of course it won't happen to me, so who cares?"
When it finally does happen, thats not a Yoda-ish, chin scratchingly, pensivley slanted eyebrows, nodding wisely, then steepling your fingers, while seated alone, looking out over a sunset drenched vista, life lesson. It's a big fat f*** up! You just ruined a whole bunch of lives, and will never understand the suffering you set in motion!

Hey, calm...ohmmmmmm....oo, nearly had some sort of subconcious flashback.

So if YOU want to do something, make sure you're on a separate planet, or are doing it with consenting selfish types. Making sure that the next time you use that mobile phone on the road, you're not the one responsible for setting off an extremely complex chain of negative actions that have far reaching consequences it would take a time machine to check on.

Ooo I'm off for a lie down and a bun.

Lucy Lu of Charlies Angels movie fame (to me at least) was today's lookalike. Snoop Dog's grandfather was a close second.

The jury has just come back with the uanimous vote that I do indeed hate country music with a vengance. A ton of tearful women, lamenting their harsh life, with seemingly no way out except to spend endless hours blubbing over something they can apparently see is not right, but chose to put (and keep) themselves in. The chaps all warbling along to their twangy guitars about how sorry they are for treating someone not right and them leaving/never settling down due to years of rampant tottie. My problem with all of this is similar to rap. Why do these cow-people insist on knowing how bad their lot is, yet they chose that particular path?
Sort of anti-rap I suppose. Rappers seem to make most of it up, but at least they go on about happy stuff!
I couldn't care less how much money, ladies, or er...Bling they have, but at least it's a positive fantasy (if you ignore the rich vein of questionable ethics) which seems to point to having a Hugh Heffneresque lifestyle, without actually working in any way at all to justify it.

Nice!

Country is just a long, often slow, drawn out, drawling whine, about how life should be. Never heard a song yet about someone who decided they would do it differently, and God knows I've heard enough of it.

Hang on, that last whinge almost qualifies for being made into a country lament. Just sprinkle a few hurt young wifes, some non communicative children, topped off with a sprig of dead crops, and Shania Twain will have to watch out! Hang on, I have to make sure I complain about it after at LEAST 8 years of the same shortsighted self misdirection. So maybe not just yet....look out 2011 there will be a new twangy (if more than a little whiney) guitarist in the chart!

The Microsoft monster has seen fit to release a wondefully British titled "Grabbed by the Ghoulies". Which is in fact by their relatively newly (2002) aquired (at mucho expense) Rare software house. Perhaps this is a little boy coporate snigger the big M's expense, as Rare are British themselves. Mind you the website is a bit crappy these days, considering how long they have been around and how much the big M must have payed for them..sad...

While I am rambling about it, where'd the thing come from, to call software companies "houses"?