Random links

Time for another blog, and in order to not just go on about work (blah) and cutting my lawn (blah), thought it was about time I shared a random link. Apologies to anyone who has seen it before, since I obviously nicked it from a recent mailout.

This is something rather strange. It seems that in the Philippines, they have a slightly different approach to the way they occupy their prisoners than we do in the UK. Whilst our jails are full of people suing the prison for not letting them watch porn etc (sweeping generalisation which I have to state for legal reasons, does not apply to all inmates), in the Philippines they spend their time doing really gay dance routines. Like, if you imagine 1500 inmates in the courtyard dressed in regulation orange jumpsuits, doing the classic "Thriller" dance. Or "Radio Ga Ga" Or several others that I can't be arsed to list here, but they're all on YouTube. Best one should be their uber-gay YMCA/In the Navy montage, but the only clip I can find has rubbish sound quality. What a shame. There are lessons we can learn from their example, but at the moment I can't think what they might be!

My other current favourite waste of time is playing online scrabble on facebook. There is a facility that lets you play games against your friends and it is most addictive. Except I can't play it at work as I haven't yet been brave enough to download the required flash plug-in, in case it wrecks the system. If anyone wants a game, you can find the link to it on my profile (and since Steve finally got his act together and signed up, I think most regulars are on there now, much to our collective shame at being far too old for that sort of thing really).

Only one more day of work this week then I am off to London for the weekend to see some friends, then having new fascias and guttering put on the house on monday and tuesday which should smarten up the exterior no end. Then I'll only have a few odd bits to do to make it looking right, like getting a new door for the boiler cupbard by the front door as the current one is rotting away. Exciting stuff!