Points of View

But not with Anne "Annie" Robinson, nor Terry "Radio 2" Wogan, nor Eamonn "GMTV" Holmes.

I bloody well hate spiders - I'm such a sissy - but I thought I'd have a gander at this 20-million year old spider, it being very much dead so can't scuttle along at high-speeds.  They don't seem to have evolved much during the years (in terms of shape), so obviously one of the better (want of a better word) 'made' living species known to man.

Sony Playstation is 10-years old!  Happy Birthday, you game-destroying, scummy bastards!  Sorry, did that slip out?  Personally, I think that Sony have done good and made the games industry more popular among the mass consumers, but they haven't really done much to add to the creativity of gaming.  Sure there are some great games for the console, but there's nothing directly from the company of which has made me feel that I have to get a PS or PS2 (or even a PS3).  Sega have been and always will be a favourite of mine.
What I won't deeny and agree with (having read the BBC report), is that the Playstation did indeed advance 3D technology compared to the Sega Saturn although that was said to be a 2D-biased platform.  The PS was quite capable of pushing polygons in its infancy and even more so in its latter years.  Well done on that front.

This caught my eye due to the recent talks of it being unhealthy to mother a child late on in life (i.e. 40-years and up).  Except it wasn't what I expected and turns out to be a story about a woman giving birth to her daughter's baby, Annie.  So does that make the surrogate mother Annie's mum or grandmother, or both, or neither, or something else completely?  Like an alien monkey from Mars...

Finally, because otherwise I'd go on forever about the news, is the decommissioning of IRA arms.  I'm sure it's to be a joyous news to all and one great leap for pease, but the news articles hits something that I hadn't even considered - people's knowledge of arms.  There is no way to get anyone to forget all the technical knowhow that they may have learnt over the decades.  I'm not one for history - although the BBC make good use of the internet to give you the relevant details in their special report sections - but here's the low-down on the IRA.  I should read this one at some point, but I've given the link to the first page as to how the IRA (formerly, Provisional IRA) were formed.  I'd like to believe that the N.I. troubles are associated only to those who fall into the categories of Catholic, Protestant, Loyalist or Republicans, but there will always to be 'civilian casualties of war'.  I worry because I've a Iraish friend who's living in Northern Ireland so it's not nice to think anything should happen to her.  Although now she's working in England, so I think past tense 'worried' is more appropriate now.

Ooh... the problem with me a blogging is that it can take so long - even worse when I'm watching TV ('The Hand That Rocks The Cradle' was on - awesome film).  I'm so slow that new news comes up on the BBCi headlines (at this time of day/night too).  So, finally, no really, this time it's for real: minimum wage goes up to £5.05.  Hazzah! to those who can't quite be arsed to find a proper job or make an effort to advance themselves.  Ooh, how controversial!