Everyone should watch this

Rageh - Inside Iran - BBC4

Wisdom teeth - out!

I had my lower wisdom teeth out today at Guys Hospital (great view of London from the 23rd floor!). 

Anyway I wen through to theatre and I was on the table starting to feel some cold in my arm and then I was having a dream, thinking, 'I've got a toothache again, I must make an appointment to see the dentist in the morning'.  And I thought, oh no, it's only a dream, I'll be ok when I wake up.  Then I opened my eyes and 'oh no, it's real'.  

So, I had a headache and jaw ache.  But I could feel my front teeth, lips and jaw, so no nerve damage.  Russ accompanied me home and I had a little soup.  I'm going to sup liquid, rather than using straws - straws are too much trauma right now.  I'll have to blend the soup - too many bits.  Bleeding hasn't stopped yet (it's not heavy though), I'm meant to mouthwash with salt (not tonight though, I want those clots to form fast - too much information?)

I have 4 sets of pills to take: paracetamol (500mgx2); dihydrocodeine (30mg); ibuprofen (400mg); Amixocillin (500mg).  Complicated, but no pain!

The consultant told me that 'They didn't want to come out!  But we got them out'.  Eek - good thing I was asleep.

Trekking Bars

This arrived through my letter box today. Yes, my letterbox!

What will these look like on my new bike?

Here's a bike with trekking bars

And here's a video of a bike with one

Toilet Brush

Believe it or not, £14 from John Lewis

Baaaaack!

Um, so I got a new computer and Rapid Weaver lost its sense of where the photo albums were, so I just left it, but now it's fixed, although RW has put a pixel of white at the top of each picture now. Pfft - a bug I guess!

So my new iMac lets me do this:

That was Vista RC1, and it was/is dog slow, but I only have 1GB of RAM, so that was not unexpected. There was nothing compelling or new in Vista that I saw though. As per the screen shot I also got Ubuntu. It runs nicely, but nothing compelling there either. I wanted to install that NeXT interface, but I couldn't figure it out. Heres a direct comparison of Vista and OSX:

Hmm, Vista text is lighter but Mac OS X text looks more...real. What else is new? I've got one of these on order:

Over £1000 of TSR, but with custom components and a custom fit. I'm super-excited, as they say. I have three words to say about the people I'm buying it off (Villiers-Velo): SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE - it is excellent!

Speaking of Moultons, you can barely see it, but I went on a Critical Mass last Friday and saw a Mark 1 Moulton with a beatbox on the back rack - very trendy.

And today, I was on strike for the first time ever. As I said to my boss, it's not about the money, I don't think the efficiency drive in the service at the moment should lead to compulsory redundancies. Simple as that. Hopefully that'll be the last time we're called out.