I've been facebooked - and I got a camera!

I've finally succumbed to those of you who've been prompting me to join Facebook. I was originally turned off by the site's aggressive cookie setting, but I've been reconciled by B2's rousing endorsement - i.e. "It's just like myspace but it doesn't make your eyeballs bleed". Nice. Doesn't seem too bad. Only been looking at it for 10 minutes, my eyeballs aren't bleeding yet.

Much more importantly, I've got my own camera! I'm very excited - B2 and I have been sharing a camera since we got married, and that has had a few MAJOR drawbacks
(1) It's a reasonably high end camera, so it's hard to just shove it in your bag to take over to the family dinner for happy snaps
(2) I rarely get to use it. It wasn't that B2 hogged it, as such. He just always liked to use the manual settings, so when I got it the screen would be too dark, or something, and then he'd try to tell me that I should adjust this setting or that setting, and then the people/birds/whatever I wanted to photograph had gotten bored and wandered/flown off.
So now I've got my own camera, which is great. It's a nice, small, simple thing that fits just fine in my handbag and I've been going nuts with it...I'll get around to uploading the photo's soon.

Also, there's been this promising development in the media: Sydney Morning Herald - Health Check for TV As a slightly anal person who knows a reasonable amount about medicine, and especially first-aid, I have been known to walk out on television shows and movies because of the inaccuracy of the medicine they're performing...especially when it works. My skin's crawling just thinking about it.

So moves like this will be a great boon to me, the other nerds like me out there, and all of the poor relatives and friends who've had to listen to us shouting "Aargh! That's ridiculous! That would never work in real life!". Most of all folks, please remember - random punches of the sternum will probably only bruise the corpse. It's regular pressing down on it that'll help.

World Turtle Day

I had occasion this morning to visit 123greetings.com, and discovered that today is World Turtle Day. So whoever you are, wherever you are, think - think of the turtles.

Talking to my brother

My brother is insane. To be fair: (a) he's well aware of the fact, and (b) so are we all. One advantage of getting up early and logging in to my computer is every now and then he's still awake (on the other side of the world) and will message or Skype me. And then we talk for an hour about random stuff. Pretty much like this: his first blog and his other blog.

The browser seems to think I'm typing in hindi all of a sudden. I'm not sure how this will come out, so if it's hindi characters - Namaste!

In other news, my scarf is coming along very well. Celia gave me a lesson on how to start a new ball and also how to perl/purl (however you spell it - the knitting one, not the coding one). I'm not doing any purl for my scarf though, I'm sticking with the garter stitch.