5°C, light cloud, some stars.

The Curious case of Benjamin Button Was that a long film? It touched on some raw nerves that film. The poignant themes were carried on concept of an odd man who grew younger as those around him aged. The power laid in the big life issues that we all often have to deal with: love, loss, longing and the clash between life-long desires and moving our lives onwards. Even though it was nearing 3 hours (incl. adverts) I thought some parts could have been longer, it seemed a big heavily cut in parts. That’s Hollywood I suppose.

4°C, clear, sunny, snow lingers.

Warwick Arts Centre, film:initially I thought this would be like a documentary, but it turned out to be a very powerful story that wove politics, sexuality, personal tragedy into a compelling story. It wasn’t all that long ago, significant events happened in the mid-seventies, years I can recall.

Please someone suggest what the thinking was behind this apostrophe. Not possessive, so it’s the missing letter game.
Can any scrabble experts suggest a word for thr_o. Anyone…?

Google Chrome is another Mozilla web browser. It’s fabulous, quick easy to use and unsullied by frivolous nonsense (no themes- wooo…). Some "web2.0" features don’t work properly, but it’s just so fast … so what?

However, Live Space edits only in html mode, which is alright for some (you Arnaud).
Each tab in Chrome is listed separately in Task manager, also the same page open in Chrome consumes 1/2 the memory that Firefox uses. So run Chrome while you are using the computer for other things. Actually, there are some cosmetics- the start page shows a picture of pages you opened last session. Keyboard shortcuts are the same as Firefox. You don’t stand a chance IE7.

Yesterday’s film: A "feel-good" film that is not too sickly. It wasn’t sickly at all unlike the rest of that genre. Add it to your recommended list.

Howling Tree: it’s lived there for decades, gazing out at passing travellers like me. Or did it, on this well travelled route- I haven’t noticed this entity before. Do you put on a more cheerful face for other visitors? The wind blew hard as I shot this one, it made un-earthly noises in the wires above my head.
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No interruption: to my internet connection – surprise.
A cartoon strip comes with an Ikea flat-pack stool. Excellent finale!

The comic-strip above has all the essential elements of a story, characters introduced, scene setting, the bizarre central action of a man using stools as clogs, then the dramatic finale of him doing a head-plant into a fridge-freezer. Conflict is there in the scene where we are forbidden from painting pictures of the central hero character- the foot-stool.
While in Yantar:

The cat is sleeping.

Baader Meinhof complex: Film |Guardian review: was unrelentingly grim last night at the new cinema in Derby. However, the cinema was very nice, comfortable seats ( for a long film) and the sound-quality was very nice. The film was obviously not digital, with scratches and holes- old stock it seemed. My impression is that it makes a good companion to Munich, which was set near the end of this story. Munich seemed a  warmer film. Meinhof had to loose her daughters in the story, but not enough was made of this thread for me. I’m not giving this an unreserved recommendation.

Cup of tea:The removal firm have arrived.
Firstly park the lorry, open the back and sit down for a cup of tea. British workmen.
I realised yesterday, I haven’t got any fireworks yet.

Some UK ISPs have censored a Wikpedia article about the German rock band "The Scorpions", one album cover has caused the problem, 32 years after it was released. That’s what I call slow reactions. My very own Claranet have joined in the blockage. See if yours does too: Blocked
I’d guess that this band were the inspiration for Spinal Tap’s "Smell the Glove" parody. the album cover is pretty easy to find on other sites though, it’s only Wikipedia that is barred.
Funnily enough, the page is not blocked in school.

Dual Boot: my computer runs both Windows 2000 & XP. Recently the Win 2000 (2K) was fatally damaged by a virus. But running the repair ultility also broke WinXP- it just wouldn’t boot. So I gave up and installed a fresh copy of Win2K. Installing an older OS renders the newer one inaccessible. Today I am hugely relieved that there was a simple fix found on the web.

Problem: running the repair feature, (rather like installing a new OS in the wrong order) places two files in the root drive (normally C: )
NTDETECT.COM and NTDR
the Win2K version of these files is different to WinXP’s version and not forwards compatible.
Solution: Copy & paste the files from the Win XP installation disc and replace the ones in your boot drive.
After: it’s likely that you may need to edit the boot.ini file also.

Why be so bothered: my XP installation is not to hard to replace, nor is installing the various applications and games there. The big problem that would have takes all week is setting everything up, all those config files, plugins and the rest that make programmes work together properly.
Now, I’m off to test some of it.
This is where I got it from.

Winter wasteland: what an unecessary day- MS Windows is broken on this computer and it’s taking all day to fix it. It has been snowing outside, slushy dull grey day.