EU investigates mystery buggings: I’m going to start a thorough search of my living room. There’s a lot of controversial talk here, you know.

The war must be on – my dad hasn’t left the chair in front of the television since 7am this morning. A different perspective from the usual dramatic TV news is an Iraqi weblog from inside Baghdad. “Raed” writes an online diary, and updates it whenever he can dodge the bombs. Visit his website – “Where is Raed ?“.

“Your IQ is significantly more powerful than the average for your income bracket.” *blush*. It appears I’m only being paid for a small percent of my IQ, something I’ve been telling my manager for at least a year. Try out the Guardian IQ Test yourself. Go on.
See the full glory by clicking the picture below.

“The waiting is killing me,” one female soldier tells the Times,
apparently without irony. Well, the waiting is nearly over. It’s no
longer a question of if we go to war, but when – and how. War is
coming this week; “it could even,” the Telegraph predicts, “begin
tonight.” (via The Guardian, not that I usually read that left-wing claptrap)

A tribute – www.thorahird.com

The Debtometer is back with a vengence… it’s even got it’s own little corner: www.wibbler.com/debt. Follow my meagre attempts at financial security…
“A tremendous read” – The Daily Sun
“Codswallop” – The Morning Times

Musical ponderings:
- Why does nobody ever mention Michael Jackson’s best song ever, Give In To Me?
- What happened to Lene Marlin?

Humble apologies for the error after you post comments – it posts your comment, but buggers up when it refreshes the page. It’s being sorted, honest…

The stock market’s falling as fast as my bank balance, and, to lighten your day, here’s a graph showing my BT shares. Funnily enough I was very close to selling them in January 2000 to help with beer money…(click to see the full, pitiful image)

Please all drop your bags for a moment and welcome Jac to the world of Broadband. After hours of toiling the NTL’s woeful installation, he finally managed to get online this afternoon, after phoning me up with the classic broadband newbie question, “I may be being stupid, but how do I disconnect?”
Tremendously, in 3 weeks I move to a house without broadband. Excellent timing…