3. Data Roaming Charges. It’s 2011. Accessing the internet doesn’t cost that much. How can Telcos possibly think it’s OK to charge so much? It should just be a standard part of the service now.

Can you guess which desk is mine?

There are six basic motivations driving web behaviour, they are information,
communication, creation, transaction, entertainment and surfing. According to MS Advertising.

I’m conflicted. I think True Blood may have jumped the shark. For me anyway.

There I said it. It’s out there.

I have been denying it all season, hoping for the best. Maybe it’s just me. I couldn’t stand the wait between episodes last season so started on the books. I read pretty much all 9 (that were out at the time) in a few weeks. Maybe that was my mistake. But they were so damn good I couldn’t stop.

I understand why they have had to deviate from the books so much. The books are Sookie‘s POV and they need to have stories that are about all the characters but I feel that they lost some of the essence of what I liked so much about the characters.

Maybe I’m just sore because they seemed to have skipped over the development of Sookie dumping Bill and hanging out with Eric like in the 4th book ‘Dead to the World‘. My favourite of the books. Sorry if you didn’t want to get spoiled.

What don’t I like about this season? Russel Edgington, the whole Talbot mush in an urn is a bit OTT, and that scene with male prostitute did not resonate with me at all. Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill – nothing I’m liking about him – and the Lorena back story was boring with a capital B. Illicit V selling, yawn.

What am I liking? I thought they’d keep Franklin Mott around a bit more, the terrorizing of Tara was boring but he had some of the best laugh out loud moments of the season. “Hey, Tara, see how fast I type “motherf**ker.” Cool, right?”. Lafeyette, anything with him really, he’s great. I’m glad they kept him around (which they didn’t in the books).

One more episode to go in Season 3 and the series has already been renewed for a Season 4. Ratings are better than ever pulling in 5.39 mil for the episode before last. Maybe I’m being too harsh but my expectations were/are so high. Season1 and 2 were amazing. Who knows, this last episode may pull it all together and blow me away. Bring it on!

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I went out to a concert last night. In my usual fashion I missed the first song or two because I’d committed to a beer line. On going into the hall I only got so far in before I couldn’t be bothered maneuvering amongst the people. As I stood there listening, I wondered if the sound was better than listening to the album on my car stereo. Hmmm… probably not. Is it the vibe that makes you go to these things? Maybe. I thought about how I should have got there early, got a spot right down the front before the support band started and had a primo spot for the band. I remembered a time recently when I did that. I lasted maybe two songs before the crush of the crowd got unbearable and I moved back to about where I was last night. I am now resigned to the back half of the venue as the place that is best for me.  

I don’t know what it is about standing in a queue but I naturally start to get annoyed. What annoys me the most is when people leave too much room between them and the person in front. What’s up with that? Keep it compact and tidy is my theory.

Different types of queues?

Coffee Queue, ATM queue, Movie Theatre Queue, Queue when you don’t need to queue… What else?

With all the talk of the resignation and appointment of a new premier here in NSW there has been a bit of press about the cabinet members and other members of parliament. To my surprise the member for Balmain is a woman called Verity Firth. This is probably of no significance to anyone really. The reason why I am so surprised is because for a few years in my early twenties I had a good friend called Verity Firth. Lovely girl, a bit crazy, born again christian, slightly daffy. Don’t worry, I searched her and the pictures prove they are definitely not the same person. It’s just such an unusual name that I was really shocked that there could be 2 of them. Last time I saw her she was living in Drummoyne (after returning from Newcastle, UK) and had a young baby girl. Weird. Speaking of Newcastle UK, I actually visited her there and stayed with her and her boyfriend who then became her husband. That’s right she was a pretty good friend of mine. I would have been about 24 at that stage. What ever happened? Why aren’t we still friends? I think it was just because our lives were so different that we drifted apart.