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Nano Count = 50,015

Well I did it, 50,000 words in 30 days, and now have the shiny evidence of my ability to write a ton of drivel in a short space of time.  That may sound harsh, but it probably is drivel at the moment (I don't know either way, I haven't looked back on it at all) but hopefully once I give it s re-write, it may come out as something readable.

I'm sure you'll understand that this is the reason posts have been a little sparse of late, I only have the capacity for so many words at any one time, and they've all gone in the book.  If anyone is remotely interested in reading it, let me know and I will mail you a copy.

Other than that the main news is that I'm going to be a student again.  Starting February I will be doing an open university degree in computing, although I won't choose a specific path until I've done the basic modules.  I utterly messed up my last attempt at a degree, and I'm sick of being poor, and of not knowing more about computers.  So that's exciting.

With the nano month, I neglected to mention anything about the election, suffice to say when me and Jonic stayed up to watch the speech and the result, there were tears in my eyes.  At the time I was pretty pissed off with some of the coverage of the man's race, until a few days later when I listened to Nina Simone's Strange Fruit, and it hit me how far America has come in less than a century.

Other than that, my expert opinion on some things for you, in bullet point fashion:

• This video is one of the greatest things I've ever seen
• The new AC/DC album is alright
• The new Guns N Roses album is terrifyingly awful
• The return of Charlie Brooker, first with Dead Set and then Screenwipe, is a very good thing
• This video is beyond comprehension, Rosie...please never be like this
• Last.fm is my new version of online crack
• The new trailers for Trek and Watchmen blow me away
• Shopping for kids toys is brilliant
• I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here is every bit as horrifying as I'd imagined, only I never knew it would be this watchable
• The new series of Spooks is very silly
• Little Dorrit is marvelous

Lastly, I heard some truly horrible news today.  J+H, you are both in my thoughts, and if I were a praying man, you'd be in my prayers too.

That is all for now, but now that I have gotten back in the writing frame of mind you can expect more frequent posts.