The difference between this election and the last; the outcome wasn’t known before we all started. Last night was eurovision, a great way to confirm that the rest of Europe is bonkers, and nobody likes us (or is it our songs are never any good anymore?).

I’m quite disappointed Norway didn’t win, with WigWam, who are basically the Norwegian version of darkness, the probily lost out because of there lack of kettle drums. Ruth refused to believe that the Moldavian entry’s words “Granma Bangs the drum, with the big mallet from the house” didn’t have some other meaning, but they did have an old woman in a rocking chair with a drum, so I think that they are just bonkers.

granma nearly won

the only downside to eurovision is the voting now takes longer than the songs, I think 39 countries got to vote on the 24 songs. This does give Terry the opportunity to have ago at our European neighbours, which is all part of the fun. If we want people to get interested in Europe maybe we should let Terry have a weekly 30minute show where he rounds up the goings on and voting in the European parliament.

I don’t think we are ever going to win the contest again, since it went to ‘televoting’, all the Scandinavian countries vote for each other,all the Baltic countries vote for each other, and all the Balkan countries vote for each other, while if were lucky the Irish vote for us. (look at the voting)

I’m beginning to come around the to Tory view point, we need to let panels vote, because the common people can’t be trusted.

Continuting, on the nerdy theme:

Music to code by; big headphones and it’s great for keeping you in the zone.

I know, some people will despair, that we let at 11 week old baby watch TV, but I am a great believer in all things in moderation, and besides she likes a bit of telly now and again.

So what does daisy like on TV, well she likes football; the other night when she was playing on her mat she stopped to watch the football, today she was fascinated by the Darkness, singin’ Christmas Time on VH1, and she does like the storymakers on cbeebies. All in all she doesn’t actually get put infront of the telly for very long, it’s just amazing how it can stop a full on tantrum, in it’s tracks, it’s scary stuff.

This not sleeping lark really is getting out of hand now. Ruth is currently sleeping for two, so comes home from work and flakes out for an hour, while I am getting up at 6am and not going to be until way past midnight, and usually getting up in the night! I am pretty sure I am meant to be using the next 7 months as time to get all my sleeping done.

[listening to: Insomnia, Faithless 8:47]

I don’t know if it is widely accepted as an urban myth, but eBay isn’t actually that cheep. I have just been looking at PC’s part of the I need some kit to start my own business racket, and they are quite expensive, I mean there is the odd apparent bargain like 14 base units for ?100 + 70p&p but I bet if you bid on it, the price would shoot up to nearer ?400. and these aren’t exactly spring chicken base units.

Today wasn’t to good for a monday, in fact it’s a bit of a prodigy day.

today, the OSS debacle continues (the rant post is still sitting on my laptop), today we had a meeting, or to be more precise I wasn’t in the meeting, to decide how the duplicate problem is going to be resolved. Given that oracle have said it’s our own fault (and to be honest it is) and that if we go into the database to fix it they won’t support us, oh and they won’t fix it for us, then we are a bit stuck.

anyway, I found a whole new set of duplicates today, not duplicate accounts, but duplicate enrollments, where a student is enrolled on the same modules over and over again, the first one I found was on 17 courses in oss, but really they should only be on 9, luckily all the stuff we have written to deal with modules, doesn’t accept duplicates because we thing you can only be on a course once, so we are just going to throw away all this information. This time, this one isn’t our problem, a piece of good news in an otherwise depressing day.

There really is only one way to de-stress after a bad day…. Listen to the Bear in the Big Blue House Album. especially Dear Grandma with Tutter and Bear.